World Youth Alliance Fall 2009
The experiences that I have had, and the people that I have met, has shaped me and changed me more then I could have imagined here at my time with WYA. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first arrived, all I knew was, WYA was something special, their mission important, and I wanted […]
MY FALL INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE AT WYA NORTH AMERICA
As I was walking to the WYA Headquarters on the first day of the internship on September 8th 2009, I had butterflies in my stomach. Many thoughts were going round in my head, will I bond with my fellow interns and staff? what is everyone like?, how will I be able to do my projects? […]
THE BEST FALL 2009 INTERNSHIP
Hannah Ondiek, 21 years,Kenya In 2007 immediately after High School, I did an internship in the World Youth Alliance Africa office. We were in the old office in the city. Esther Kanyi was the Director of Operations and our supervisor then and Winnie Beauttah was the Regional Director. It was great working with them and […]
Catch Cinema Ubuchinami on November 27, featuring The Incredibles!
Click on the picture to make it bigger. Feel free to copy and repost it on your Facebook/Multiply or pass it along via email.Help spread the word 🙂 Everybody loved the Disney animated feature film – The Incredibles. It was hilarious! But did you ever stop to consider that it also gave some lessons to […]
The Working Group and WYA
This fall I have been attending meetings of the Working Group on Girls, (WGG) an organization made of up of all sorts of women representing different NGOs that all advocate for girls’ rights. World Youth Alliance strives to protect and promote the dignity of every person, particularly those whose dignity is systematically ignored and abused. […]
World Youth Alliance Halloween Party
It was a cold October fall night, and the night was quiet. This was the quiet before the storm, on the eve of Halloween. while the rest of New York and especially the west village were preparing their costumes and houses for the festivities the next day, the staff and interns of WYA were getting […]
A night with George Weigel
World Youth Alliance North America was honored to have had Mr. George Weigel accompany us for an evening. The interns and staff, planned and prepared a special dinner for Mr. Weigel and WYA special guests! The night started with introducing our guests to WYA and presenting our video and afterwards, we had the pleasure of […]
CITY Adventure Scavenger Hunt
Race on! Saturday, October 24th, World Youth Alliance members competed to find a dozen hidden cultural gems in New York City, in WYA’s second annual CITY Adventure scavengerhunt. Members split into two groups and raced to discover as many stops as they could in just under six hours, using intricate clues and their knowledge of […]
