Meet the WYA Nigeria Chapter Leaders

WYA Chapters are driven by the initiatives of young people like you who put your passion for human dignity into action. A Chapter is an officially approved local branch of WYA members who volunteer to manage various activities in support of the WYA mission. Get to know the newest leaders of the WYA Nigeria Chapter: […]

Womb for Rent: Exploring Surrogacy in Kenya

University life can get quite hard in Kenya especially when you have limited resources and are trying to get through your education. Picture this * : Terry is classmates with Sharon at a local university in Kenya and they are both struggling financially. Terry informs Sharon that they could get fifty thousand Kenyan shillings if […]

The Fate of Kenya’s Reproductive Health Bill

A few days ago during one of my Certified Training Program (CTP) classes, we were discussing the concept of freedom in the third chapter. It occurred to me just how desensitised we have become as humans such that we agree to normalise anything and everything in the name of freedom. The Reproductive Healthcare (RH) Bill […]

Nigeria and HIV/AIDs: What more can be done?

HIV/AIDS is a disease associated with high stigma and discrimination in Nigeria. These are often rooted in socially learned attitudes in seeing the disease as affecting people who live immoral lives without actually knowing how they contracted the virus. HIV/AIDS patients are stigmatized and discriminated against; seen as humans without dignity, value or worth to […]

A Year and Three Months Into the Pandemic

Writing this feels nostalgic because around this time last year I was doing my regional internship with WYA Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. The internship was unfortunately cut short with the onset of the pandemic (just as many things were affected) and it is without a doubt that the pandemic has altered my and the world’s […]

Meet the WYA HQ Interns for Summer 2021!

This summer, the World Youth Alliance Headquarters welcomed its second batch of online interns for 2021. Despite the pandemic, this season will keep them busy with organizing key events such as the WYA International Open House, representing WYA at United Nations events, publishing articles on the website, and many more. The WYA internship is a […]

Bad Company Corrupts Good Morals

A wise man once said “Plantations of good morals are easily captivated, colonized, and corrupted by the pests of bad company. Spray away bad companies and you will experience a bumper harvest of your dream fruits!” We all grow up with dreams of making it big in life. I remember back in the day when […]

The Power of Persistence

Growing up in Nairobi, Kenya, “the city under the sun”, has been an experience that no gold or silver could buy. Every night before going to bed, one has to have in mind a plan for the next day that is greater than the previous day’s plan. You wake up every day to fight for […]

The Beauty of Diversity

When you look up diversity it is explained as ‘variety’ or my personal favorite, “very different”. That sounds about right but I honestly prefer the word ‘unique’. When you look up unique, you will find something along the lines of ‘one of a kind’, and that sounds so much better. People from all over the world […]

A Resounding “NO” to Surrogacy

Surrogacy is a practice whereby a woman becomes pregnant to give the child to someone else upon birth. Each year, thousands of women agree to carry the child of another woman at a fee. Over 50,000 babies are born as a result on “shaky legal legs”; conceived by one set of parents yet claimed by […]