A longtime anticipated event: the ISF
Two years ago, in 2018 when I first got introduced to World Youth Alliance mission and work, I was thrilled to join this global youth coalition and experience the internship at Headquarters Office. Luckily enough, I was selected as one of the WYA HQ interns for the first batch of 2020. One of my most […]
Where Do We Go from Here?
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper The global, novel coronavirus has brought the world as we know it to a screeching halt. In the past few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has drastically closed borders and kept us contained in our homes. It’s been two weeks since I last stepped out of my house and with every […]
WYA Poland on “Family Radio”
I believe that the protection of human dignity is not just another slogan, but the concrete content for all actions of World Youth Alliance. Together with my friend Paweł, an active member of WYA Poland, we were able to share this message with hundreds of people, thanks to the invitation received from “Family Radio”. “Family […]
European Identity and Human Dignity?
A Croat, an Italian and an Austrian walk in to a bar… Or should I put it like this – a group of 45 young people who seemingly having nothing in common but curiosity about human dignity walk into the same venue, spend a week together and prove every single person that ever said “ahh, […]
On Encountering Thou: Lessons from my first field work
As a Development Studies major, one thing I’ve always looked forward to ever since freshman year is doing fieldwork. Looking back, I knew I wanted to major in this course because I feel happy when I’m on the ground– working at the grassroots level. This kind of opportunity allows me to encounter people in the […]
Where is the energy to (re)charge our global SDGs?
On the 18th and 19th of June, along with three other European World Youth Alliance interns, I went to the European Development Days (EDD) in Brussels. A whole new world opened up when I walked through that door. Was it due to the several airport-like security checks? Could be at least part of it. At […]
Why I Chose WYA’s Advocacy Internship as my First Career Move as a Lawyer
Last May 3, 2019, a lifelong dream became a reality as I found out that I was one of the 1,800 out of the 8,000 who passed the 2018 Philippine Bar Exams. I was finally a lawyer, and it was pure bliss for my loved ones and I. The many years of hard work, sacrifice, […]
Meet the WYA Warriors: The Summer Interns of Batch 2019 in New York!
As summertime arrives in New York City, World Youth Alliance welcomes the second batch of 2019 interns under the Global and North America program. From June 3rd to August 16th, 15 new interns from around the world will come to acquire a deeper understanding of WYA’s philosophy on the dignity of the human person. Other […]
How WYA’s mission to defend human dignity helped me forgive the boy who raped me
[su_tabs active=”2″][su_tab title=”English”] On March 18, 2016, I was drugged and raped by a boy my age. To this day I don’t know his name, I can’t even remember his face, which may be a good thing, if it wasn’t because I used to see him as every boy I saw. I kept wondering if […]
How WYA Encourages Future Young Leaders
Between the 22nd and 26th of May 2019, WYA Europe collaborated with WYA Portugal in organising an Erasmus + project called Young Leaders for Tomorrow where I participated as an intern in the Brussels office. The event was organized in enthralling Lisbon and funded by the Erasmus+ programme. The young people who arrived to […]
