How my WYA story started in St. Lucia
Don’t teach them what to think, teach them how to think. A phrase short in nature, simple enough to grasp, yet indicative of a point in my life where I started to rethink all the ways I had ever been taught anything that was supposed to carry some moral gravitas. My name is Kin-Z […]
Living Solidarity Reminded Me of My Dignity
In its philosophical approach, the concern of WYA’s Certified Training Program (CTP) is the concept of the dignity of the human person, and how that dignity is lived out in freedom, culture, and solidarity, with the contention that the truth of man is fundamentally connected to this dignity that he possesses. The question that naturally […]
Wanna Change the World? Strive Out of Your Comfort Zone and Commit On a Daily Basis
Interview with Fernando Alvarez de la Vega, a WYA Europe intern Just as my short visit to WYA Europe headquarters in Brussels was nearing to an end, I made my third interview with the interesting persons I met there. This time it was Fernando Alvarez. Why him, one could ask? I was wondering the same […]
The Gents Glembays
Gospoda Glembajevi [tabs] [tab title=”Hrvatski”] Gledalište je prepuno, s mnogim sumnjama i neizvjesnostima iščekuje se nadolazeća predstava uprizorena prema djelu „Gospoda Glembajevi“, jednom od najvećih klasika hrvatske književnosti 20. stoljeća. Cijelo Hrvatsko narodno kazalište zauzeli su mladi srednjoškolci u pratnji svojih profesora, što je posebno lijep prizor s obzirom na opće zaziranje mladih od kulturnih […]
In Search of Freedom for Excellence (And Why an Internship Can Help Here)
Interview with Adit Barbullushi, a WYA Europe intern Just the other day when I was visiting WYA Europe Headquarters in Brussels, an idea came to my mind. While I was seeing the guys who were staying on the internship there, and while I was talking to them, I realized that almost all of them are […]
“My life wouldn’t be the same without WYA”: Meet Olivia Raw, WYA’s 2017 Kathryn Hoomkwap Awardee
“World Youth Alliance gave me a deeper core as a person. It’s like the roots of a tree. It gave me solid grounding on what is human dignity. Who am I? Where do I come from? My core values were strengthened. The branches of the tree are all of the WYA friends that I met […]
Our Common Purpose
“No man is an island,” as the old adage goes. It implies that no one is assumed to go through life and its densities completely alone. However, as time progress and ideas and opinions abound on how one must go through such densities, we get isolated, separated from one another. In the assertion that our […]
Are You Listening?
The documentary, A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake, follows a group of actors as they take the message of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the war-torn countries of Rwanda, Northern Ireland, and former Yugoslavia. The actors artistically convey the message of the commission through a play in which they are the […]
Krakow, the city that gave us the WYA Charter
My sister, Mary, once had a shirt made for me that said “I wrote the Charter”. Hundreds of thousands of young people have now signed this WYA Charter that was finalized in Krakow, Poland. Krakow, one of the medieval centerpieces of the world was a market town in which east meets west, and people traded goods, […]
Vukovar and Dubrovnik: On freedom, solidarity, peace and beauty today
Vukovar i Dubrovnik: o slobodi, solidarnosti, miru i ljepoti baš danas City of Dubrovnik from the air [tabs] [tab title=”English”] It is today that we have to talk about beauty and about freedom, especially among the youth. We lost the art of living these notions because of political correctness watering down the universal human values: […]