National Committee Spotlight: WYA Lebanon
WYA Lebanon has made some significant achievements this year, and Perla Tannous, the National Coordinator of the Lebanon National Committee (WYA Lebanon), shares what has been happening. Although the 2020 Pandemic made meeting in-person difficult for the LNC, they were able to have an in-person cultural luncheon in April to discuss events and draft a […]
Human Dignity Curriculum Crucial for Kids in Iraq, says WYA member
WYA Iraq has implemented two in-person CTP (Certified Training Programs) for a local school and Liva Karwan, the WYA Iraq chapter leader, shares the success of the program. “Bullying was a thing at the school”, Liva says, “So we told them our plan to implement the CTP and HDC programs”. The school loved the idea […]
Welcoming Neeti, WYA India’s New Chapter President!
With hundreds of members across the country, WYA India has a new leader ready to steer its ship. World Youth Alliance Asia Pacific is proud to introduce the country chapter’s new President, Neeti Mahajan! Neeti has been a WYA Certified Member since October 2020. In her past two years of being active in the organization, […]
Meet Our WYA Interns: María Martín Andrade
Maria is in Pamplona, Spain doing the remote HQ advocacy internship. She says that WYA is quite popular at her university, “I study at the University of Navarra in Spain, and here, WYA is quite a big movement because it also shares a lot of values with the university. So many of the students want […]
Meet Our WYA Interns: Marietta Mortensen
Marietta, from Wyoming, is part of the WYA in-person internship in Brussels. She first became interested in WYA and a WYA internship after listening to a talk from a regional director for WYA North America at her college. “What stood out to me was how so many of my interests converge in this kind of […]
Asking “When is a Fetus Viable” is Irrelevant
In late March 2022, activists from the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) recovered the bodies of 115 aborted babies in Washington D.C., five of which were late in gestational age and had visible injuries suggesting possible violations of the Partial-Birth Abortion Act and the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. At least two doctors have commented on […]
The Untold Truths of Birth Control Side Effects
One day, in my high school gym class, I remember having terrible menstrual cramps. I was walking around the gym warming up, trying the best I could to make small talk with some friends through the pain I was feeling. That’s when they asked me: “Why don’t you just go on birth control?” As I […]
The Importance of Parent-Child Relationships
When I got my first period, I panicked. Yes, I did. Not because I didn’t know what was happening to my body, but because I was not sure how to bring out that conversation. In my head were questions: should I or not tell my mother? Should I confide in my sister or father? The […]
Meet Rejean, Your New WYA Asia Pacific Regional Director of Operations!
April 28, 2022 Manila, Philippines – Rejean Darroca is the newest World Youth Alliance Asia Pacific (WYAAP) Regional Director of Operations (RDO). Born in the city of Iloilo in the Philippines, she started her WYA journey as a participant at the WYA Asia Pacific Summer Camp. Following this, she completed the Certified Training Program and […]
The Complexity of Development
This personal experience happened back in my college years when my groupmates and I took a major class (DS130) that required us to undertake an immersion and implement project management based on the needs of the provincial community we were assigned to. The amount of things I learned in that class was immense. I realized […]