Kenyan Member Awarded 2018 Vanessa Cherese Scholarship
The World Youth Alliance proudly announces the selection of Pamella Oddotte, the first recipient of the Vanessa Cherese scholarship fund (VCSF). The chosen WYA member of the VCSF will receive a 3-month project management and advocacy training at the WYA Headquarters in New York, round trip flight tickets from the airport of departure to New […]
My WYA Africa 15-Year Anniversary Dinner Experience
I had the honor to attend the World Youth Alliance Africa 15-Year Anniversary dinner last Saturday, 18 August, 2018 at Sarova Panafric Hotel. The event celebrates the work of promoting human dignity since the 2003 here in Africa. I was intrigued to learn how the African regional office located in Nairobi, Kenya was started and […]
Where the Lilies Grow
It is easy to see the beauty of Monet’s Water Lilies. You stare at the work and catch new colours that were invisible at first. The painting decomposes and recomposes itself the longer you look at it. It takes on the nature of the thing it represents: water. Monet is known for painting the same […]
Meet Mimille Guzman, WYA’s New International Director of Operations
“WYA allows its mission to transcend the ideal and become Real. A sure proof of this is every WYA friendship, in various shape, race, and circumstance, formed under the recognition of each other’s dignity,” shares Mimille, WYA’s incoming International Director of Operations, when asked about what drew her to WYA. “I first met WYA […]
My WYA Internship
My name is Astrid Leonet, I’m from Belgium and I interned with World Youth Alliance in Brussels. It is difficult for me to summarize a six-month internship at WYA in a few words, especially considering the fact that the internship was a very enriching experience but also very intensive. During my first batch, I worked […]
The Sound of Silence
Listening has an intrinsic power. It is not just to hear sounds, voices, or noises. Psychology can often give you interesting views regarding humans and their lives. There is one particular class I attended during the last semester in college which, since that time, has been engraved in my memory: among all the human communication […]
What FEMM is to me: Reflections from the African Continent
Our greatest wealth in Africa is telling stories, we share a lot through this avenue where we are able to harness the power of the human mind and creativity. For this reason, I will share my FEMM experience as a story; I first met FEMM in 2015, when together with Vanessa, then an intern like […]
TeenMEN, a Companion Through Puberty
It is undeniable that today’s society is over-sexualized; one just needs to take a walk through the city, turn on the TV, navigate the Internet or simply listen to a normal conversation between teenagers. I wouldn’t like to generalize, but I believe that this over-sexualization is a real issue, and we should learn how to […]
The Right to Grow Up in a Healthy Family Might Save Our Communities
Where I come from, the golden rule to protect yourself is not to trust and to be rather aggressive in order to survive. My society has slowly lost the values of solidarity. I can remember my biggest encounter with violence when I was 9 years old. I was walking in the park and I observed how a […]
Human Dignity & Children’s Literature: A Never-Ending Story
I remember that, when I was a little girl, my mom would always tuck me in at night with a lullaby and a short prayer. I always remember the comfortable simplicity of snuggling up in my bed, the soft sound of my mom’s voice, and peacefully falling asleep at the end of the day. Some […]