Reflections on my Internship Abroad
A month has passed and the memories I’ve created linger in my thoughts with vivid images of my weekend getaways around Europe. I served as a Communications and Marketing intern for World Youth Alliance Europe for two months, beginning from May, days after my finals week in Ateneo de Manila University. The thought of pursuing […]
Debating Death #5: Meeting End of Life Needs with Palliative Care
Those Suffering at the End of Life need Palliative Care, not Euthanasia In previous articles we have discussed what the social consequences of legalizing euthanasia are and examined why there is no such thing as the “right to die” in international law. Our investigations led us to inevitably conclude that euthanasia is not the adequate […]
Meet our New HDC Partner: Brilla College Preparatory Charter Schools!
The Brilla College Preparatory Charter Schools have incorporated the World Youth Alliance’s Human Dignity Curriculum (HDC) into their character initiatives approach, which seeks “to educate students to lead lives of excellence, virtue and purpose.”[1] El Camino, a faith formation program that partners with Brilla College Preparatory Charter Schools, served as an HDC pilot site for […]
Clear View
Since I was a child, I always heard that your life passes before your eyes like a film strip right before you die. This thought always stuck in my mind so I spent a lot of time looking at my family’s film strips imagining what I am going to see and what images are going […]
The Right-to-Live: Finding Meaning through Suffering
One of the closest relationships which I fostered during my first twenty years of life was with my grandma. As a small boy, I remember spending summer weeks at my grandparents’ home, being spoiled with a plethora of candy and other sugar infused snacks and basically being treated like a prince, because there, I was […]
The 2017 HLPF Opening: On Healing Otherness
Last July 10-19, 2017, the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The HLPF is an annual event by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) where countries, relevant UN entities, and other stakeholders convene to focus on the status of specific Sustainable Development Goals […]
2017 International Youth Day: Youth Building Peace
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKJmKH6zFXA] The Division for Social Policy and Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, collaborating with the Inter-agency Network on Youth Development’s Working Group on Youth and Peacebuilding on Friday, 11 August 2017 hosted the International Youth Day 2017 event at the United Nations Headquarters in New York under the theme […]
Unfolding Chapters: WYA Chapter Leaders in Solidarity
Jozef Tischner, in “The Spirit of Solidarity”, once said that when solidarity is born, all our bonds become visible and that one person begins to shoulder the burden of another. True enough, the World Youth Alliance have constantly seen this in the efforts of our members around the world. They have chosen to stand with […]
HDC Volunteers: Changing the World, One Classroom at a Time
When met with the question, “How can we change the world?”, these young people see it happening in the classroom, one student at a time. “Application of values must be properly executed in school and the community and that is also where our advocacy in World Youth Alliance comes in – we put emphasis on […]
Human Dignity Curriculum: An experience in Mexico
On 2014, the Human Dignity Curriculum (HDC) made it down to Mexico for the testing of a pilot. This was the first HDC pilot to be conducted in Spanish and it was administered by the staff of World Youth Alliance Latin America. HDC was administered to a bilingual school, located in the south of Mexico […]
