My Experience with FEMM
[tabs] [tab title=”English”] I am pleased to share with you my personal experience on the FEMM program. FEMM stands for Fertility Education Medical Management and is a sister organisation to the World Youth Alliance. We had three speakers; Dr Kilonzi who talked about Reproductive Health and Fertility, Dr Wahome talked about Human life cycle, and the […]
WYA Africa: Meet our Batch 1 2018 Interns
Barbine Irabaruta is a Rwandan citizen currently pursuing her bachelors degree in finance at Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. She enjoys adventure, cultural diversity, meeting new people, traveling, and participating in productive activities. She is also passionate to make a difference in whatever she does. Barbine joined World Youth Alliance with a […]
Reflections on my WYA Africa Journey as Regional Director
It’s amazing when I look at how far I have come since I begun with WYA in 2015. I can’t explain how the value of the human person as explained by the intrinsic nature of human dignity continues to become more and more important in my life. WYA continues to instill in me the value […]
Meeting The 2018 Viktor Frankl Awardees:
“Because every engagement with WYA is worthwhile” WYA is delighted to present the Viktor Frankl Award to exemplary members from the Philippines, Tunisia, Uganda, United Kingdom, Mexico, and the United States of America. Now on its second year, the Viktor Frankl Award is presented to outstanding members of the World Youth Alliance who have made […]
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 […]
Meet WYA Africa’s 2nd Batch of 2017 Interns
My name is Daniella Gathiri. Born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. I recently completed high school in Loreto High School Limuru and I am awaiting university admission later in the year. I have an interest in WYA because I realize that a lot of people my age are not aware of their intrinsic dignity as […]
Art, Culture, and Human Dignity
We as the young people at the World Youth Alliance urge the society to embrace our culture because it gives us a sense of belonging and gets its foundation from human dignity; it also plays a major role in impacting our understanding of human dignity on an individual and societal level: Provides integral human development […]
My Struggle in Comprehending Freedom
Human freedom is always perceived to be a universal phenomenon whose principal landscape is globally acceptable and applied. Although this premise is somewhat accurate, it poses the risk of masking how freedom is understood and responded to within a specific setting that might take the shape of a region, an indigenous community, a country or […]
My Experience with the I and Thou reading by Martin Buber
Martin Buber was a prominent twentieth-century philosopher, religious thinker, political activist, and educator. Born in Austria, he spent most of his life in Germany and Israel, writing in German and Hebrew. He is best known for his 1923 book, Ich und Du (I and Thou), which distinguishes between “I-Thou” and “I-It” modes of existence. One of the […]
Friendship and the Gift of Self: How I have grown in WYA
As I write this, I’m lost in a sea of emotion. I look back at how far I have come, and how much growth I’ve experienced, and it feels unbelievable. I’m overwhelmed by how fast time has gone by. The events that led to my application for this internship at WYAA seem to have been […]
