Finishing Up the Summer

“Goodbye to another summer,” reads the gmail-chat tag line of one of our summer interns here, Clare, who has already gone back to university in New Brunswick. We all spent the last week finalizing our reports, meeting with our supervisors here and handing in the completed projects for the summer internship. The desks were cleaned […]

WYA Guadalajara

El Comité World Youth Alliance Guadalajara se prepara para un semestre lleno de actividades intensas, con muchos ánimos y esfuerzo. Yuyis Villanueva nos visitó el 13 de agosto y empezamos con la planeación de eventos, proyectos y estructuras. Se realizó la junta en el Mezanine de la Universidad Panamericana a mediodía, contando con la presencia […]

En reconocimiento a Marystella. Muchas gracias.

Todos los que hemos pasado por la experiencia de estudiar algo difícil ya sea por el contenido de la materia, la temática, la profundidad de los asuntos, el idioma en el que se encuentra y otras menesteres, lo que más agradecemos es tener un buen profesor. Aquel que dedica tiempo a preparar su materia, corrige […]

Viva la Gioventù

Last week, the World Youth Alliance hosted around 90 Italian high school students and their youth leaders. They are from a group that comes every year to take English lessons, visit the United Nations as well as various New York City landmarks, and hear presentations on WYA. I had been planning the day for them […]

XVII International AIDS Conference – Being a Player Worth Engaging

I think I can safely speak for all members of the World Youth Alliance (WYA) delegation to the XVII International AIDS Conference when I say that Thursday was a big day for us. Since Tuesday, our language on couples testing, development, denial as a catalyst for AIDS and immigration policies had been distributed at various […]

XVII International AIDS Conference – Fighting the Good Fight

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” – G. K. Chesterton All week long I have been hearing of the fight against HIV/AIDS, I have heard from Bill Clinton that we as the “millions and millions of foot soldiers” must […]

XVII International AIDS Conference – Sorrow, Hope and the Big Dragon

Here is another blog dispatch from World Youth Alliance member Theodora Ferrant. Theo is a Canadian WYA member from Ontario who worked in New York as an intern in the fall of 2007. She is now a graduate student of philosophy at Dominican College of Ottowa where she also heads up a WYA campus group. […]

LA FAMILIA UNIDA PREVIENE LA TRANSMISIÓN DEL SIDA

Por: Jun Song, canadiense, 21 años- y Lourdes Villanueva, mexicana, 25 años. 3 de agosto de 2008 De acuerdo a un estudio realizado por el Fondo de Desarrollo para la Agricultura (IFAD por sus siglas en inglés), en 2006, 150 millones de trabajadores migrantes a nivel mundial enviaron más de $300 mil millones de dólares […]

VIH/SIDA: Una respuesta centrada en la persona humana

La World Youth Alliance participa en la XVII Conferencia Internacional del Sida. Ciudad de México, 2 de agosto de 2008. Miembros de Comité de la WYA América Latina y la WYA Norte América así como las directoras de ambas regiones, Lourdes Villanueva y Shannon Joseph, participan como delegados en la XVII Conferencia Internacional del Sida […]