How WYA’s mission to defend human dignity helped me forgive the boy who raped me
[su_tabs active=”2″][su_tab title=”English”] On March 18, 2016, I was drugged and raped by a boy my age. To this day I don’t know his name, I can’t even remember his face, which may be a good thing, if it wasn’t because I used to see him as every boy I saw. I kept wondering if […]
WYA Africa: Meet the Batch 2 2019 Interns
Milkah Ndung’u is a Kenyan, born and raised in Nairobi. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Communication from Tangaza University, The Catholic University of East Africa. She is passionate about humanity and social cohesion which led her to start a forum, Global Hope. She, together with other like-minded youths, have taken it upon themselves […]
How WYA Encourages Future Young Leaders
Between the 22nd and 26th of May 2019, WYA Europe collaborated with WYA Portugal in organising an Erasmus + project called Young Leaders for Tomorrow where I participated as an intern in the Brussels office. The event was organized in enthralling Lisbon and funded by the Erasmus+ programme. The young people who arrived to […]
WYA Africa: Taking a Bow
It’s Friday May 31, 2019 and I notice my name on the ‘Article Writing Schedule’. I am due to submit a blog by June 3, 2019; my last as a staff serving World Youth Alliance Africa. I realise I have a lot to write about as this to me is really a parting shot. The […]
Finding My “Why”
In his book ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’, Victor Frankl writes that those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’. Words that have been existentially therapeutic to me, in my life journey as I live out my vocation. Every time I read the Certified Training Program (CTP) or sit through discussions, […]
The Role of the Colombian Family in Respecting the Dignity of the Child
[su_tabs active=”2″][su_tab title=”English”] My name is Andrea, I am Colombian and I am 24 years old. Most of my closest friends in Colombia are millennials, and are between 20 and 30 years old. A few of them are married, one half are considering getting married to their partners and the other half is just trying […]
The Beauty of Solidarity: “The Winning Team”
The idea of an internship for most of us is to learn new skills that we can apply in our different fields. It is a platform that can help us put our ideas into action and knowledge to practice. This is what I had in mind when I applied for the World Youth Alliance internship […]
Ordo Amoris – St. Agustine (Materialism vs Minimalism)
[su_tabs active=”2″][su_tab title=”English”] I was doing some research about minimalism for this blog and found out about the “30-Day Minimalism Game” created by TheMinimalists. I thought it was a great idea so I researched some more about it and found that a person is supposed to get rid of the things they know they can […]
The Lisbon Strategy
Let´s imagine you are living in Austria where it is cold and snowing. Then let´s say you get invited to come to Lisbon in February and spend a few days learning and discussing Youth Goals in amazing company whilst siting in the Portuguese sun. What do you think you would do? Exactly! So welcome to […]
The Camp that Changed my Perspective
Living in the age and era of “computers”, camping is not something I would enthusiastically go for. Imagine: a week sleeping in a dark tent with just a flashlight as the best source of light, having no internet, having to remember to charge my phone before going back to the tent, waking up at dawn […]