Lasting Lessons from Cultural Exposure

   Time flies so fast. It’s like the moment I was preparing everything and imagining what would happen to my three months in the Philippines just happened in a snap! Now we just finished holding our biggest event, the Emerging Leaders Conference, and I am about to go home in a few days. I made […]

An Inherent Value

She wished to attend one day school. She wished to become like almost all the other children she knew. But her family prohibited her to do so. No explanation was given to this decision that could seem different than the traditional way a person might take to progress in life. She never knew how to sit […]

A Night of Music, Pumpkin Pie, and Old-Fashioned’s

Last Saturday, October 18th, World Youth Alliance North America hosted a Fall Fun-Raiser at the WYA House to raise funds for the upcoming WYA North America Emerging Leaders Conference (ELC) with the theme Mad Men, Modern Family: Examining the Role of Men in Social Development. In this conference, we aim to examine the role of […]

Freedom for Excellence

Freedom for Excellence. This is a phrase I like best among everything I have learned from World Youth Alliance Asia Pacific (WYA AP) as an intern. Right now, there are seven of us: three international interns, including myself, from Indonesia, Vietnam and Japan, and four Filipino interns. As interns, aside from our daily tasks and […]

What I Would Have Said At the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly

Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, Fellow Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Last summer, while I was having lunch with a dear American friend, we started an interesting conversation. We expressed our thoughts and ideas about how we view the current situation of the world: I told my friend that the differences on many levels between the […]

Indonesia, the World and the Future I See

Once I get back to Indonesia, I will be a changed man. There will be high expectations of me as I represent two organizations from which I have learned so much these past weeks. They have been life-changing experiences from which I have learned leadership, professional behavior and solidarity. My journey began with the Global […]

WYA Europe Report on Commissioner Hearings

Since the 30th of September, WYA has been closely following European Parliament Commissioner Nominee hearings relevant to dignity, the family, and youth. WYA’s interns maintained a presence at some of these hearings, and this article summarises the content of these procedures. This process allows the European Parliament (EP) to screen the candidates for the highest […]