The Miracle of Learning to Speak
When my mom was pregnant with my little brother, I remember wishing he was a girl instead. I wanted a baby sister—but was given a little brother instead, and although it disappointed me at first, I quickly got over my desire for a little sister. Even though his head was a little too big for […]
Becoming A True Dignity Defender
More than one million young people from all over the world have signed the World Youth Alliance Charter and their voices were heard loud and clear. I am proud to be a WYA member and to be called a WYA member since 2015. I am a member of a great movement of youths from all […]
Youth Changing the Face of Croatia
Mladi mijenjaju lice Hrvatske [tabs] [tab title=”English”] World Youth Alliance Croatia started its project In Cooperation Against Apathy in April 2017. Encouraged by the frequent emigration of young people and the generally bad demographic situation in Croatia, the World Youth Alliance Croatia has decided to make its contribution for improving the living conditions […]
For Generation Why? There’s WYA!
Let’s admit, we are a generation full of why’s. We ask ourselves and others a ton of questions every day: Why me? Why am I like this? Why can’t I do that? Why is the world terrible? Why are kids still hungry? Why are people still suffering? But why WYA? Simple. WYA is one of […]
Meet our New HDC Partner: St. Agnes School!
St. Agnes School, in St. Paul, MN, is WYA’s newest HDC partner. As of January 2018, the school will offer the Human Dignity Curriculum (HDC) to its students from kindergarten through the eighth grade as part of the school’s more overarching character formation, for a total of 436 students to receive it. Michael Adkins, the […]
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 […]