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 […]
Seeing Without Sight
Often, there is the misconception that to be disabled means one must be in a wheelchair. This may be attributed due to the universal symbol of accessibility that we so often see today, is of a man in a wheelchair, hence, the assumption. But what does it really mean to be disabled?
Chapter 1: My WYA Story
Four days could really make a difference. I proved that statement when my friends and I joined the first ever Chapter Leadership Training or CLT here in the city of Iloilo in the Philippines.
The Best Time of My Life
The first few times I ever encountered the World Youth Alliance (WYA) was when three of classmates talked about it when they joined the summer camp back in 2015, and last January when the WYA Iloilo Chapter held a seminar for high school students. After those encounters, I started to do more research on WYA […]
How My Shanghai Adventure Led Me To WYA
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – George Moore A little over a month into the internship and I find myself on the office couch, pondering about the last 5 years since college graduation. As I stepped out of my university’s covered courts […]
What does our world truly need?
How am I going to eat today? This is a simple and basic question. Unfortunately, many people around the world ask themselves this question every day and, often times, it remains unanswered. The World Bank reports that there were 2 billion people living in extreme poverty in 1990. In 2015, the poverty line was revised– […]
Defender in Training
Although I have only been an intern for World Youth Alliance Asia Pacific (WYAAP) for three weeks, it has definitely changed the way I view and act upon the world and the people around me. To be honest, my work expectations definitely do not match up to what I am doing and feeling right now […]
10 Ways To Get Involved with WYA
So you’ve read and signed the WYA Charter, but you wonder — what comes next? Where can you learn more about WYA? How do you find like-minded peers? When can you start the grand business of defending dignity? Fret not, for here are the top ten paths you can take to jumpstart your WYA journey! […]
The Best Kind of Sound
If Christmas in the Philippines is one thing, it’s the joyous array of sounds that inevitably remind us that the holidays are upon us. Such sounds include young carolers chiming from door to door, the buzzing of people scrambling to finish their Christmas shopping, and blissful laughter, as both young and old spare their final […]
8 Things we’re thankful for this season
2016 was a year of growth and was filled with countless stories of hope. As we greet the holiday season, it’s only apt that we take a look back at the things that made our year worth remembering. Here are 8 things that WYA Asia Pacific is tremendously thankful for this holiday season… #08 […]
