Human Dignity as the GrundNorm
Brown skin, Black skin, White skin, But red blood. Same brains, Same currency, Same buses, But different rights? He donated ‘black’ blood, It saved a ‘white’ life The black blood did not choose; it did not discriminate It blended with the ‘white’ blood Little babies in playing parks They know not […]
Share the joy of Christmas WYA LA members
The Christmas Season is finally here! And, we at the WYA Latin America office want to take a moment and say THANK YOU. Thank you, to everyone of you for being part of the World Youth Alliance family during this year. We appreciate your support and we would’ve not been able to everything we did […]
Winter is Coming, Build an Ark! (Ways the Bold and Brave can Give Back to WYA Europe this Holiday)
For some time now I have the impression that the winter is coming in Europe. And when I think about it, I feel the seriousness of this sentence in a similar manner Ned Stark does in the Game of Thrones series. I mean here in the intellectual and spiritual winter, not the physical one, of […]
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 […]
What if…
What and If are words, two very simple and overused bundles of letters, that when placed side by side can have the ability to permeate onto the unconscious and the conscious, inhibit the will to want and the will to do, and imprison people in a state of being immensely miserable. I confess that, […]
How my WYA story started in St. Lucia
Don’t teach them what to think, teach them how to think. A phrase short in nature, simple enough to grasp, yet indicative of a point in my life where I started to rethink all the ways I had ever been taught anything that was supposed to carry some moral gravitas. My name is Kin-Z […]
Living Solidarity Reminded Me of My Dignity
In its philosophical approach, the concern of WYA’s Certified Training Program (CTP) is the concept of the dignity of the human person, and how that dignity is lived out in freedom, culture, and solidarity, with the contention that the truth of man is fundamentally connected to this dignity that he possesses. The question that naturally […]
Wanna Change the World? Strive Out of Your Comfort Zone and Commit On a Daily Basis
Interview with Fernando Alvarez de la Vega, a WYA Europe intern Just as my short visit to WYA Europe headquarters in Brussels was nearing to an end, I made my third interview with the interesting persons I met there. This time it was Fernando Alvarez. Why him, one could ask? I was wondering the same […]
The Gents Glembays
Gospoda Glembajevi [tabs] [tab title=”Hrvatski”] Gledalište je prepuno, s mnogim sumnjama i neizvjesnostima iščekuje se nadolazeća predstava uprizorena prema djelu „Gospoda Glembajevi“, jednom od najvećih klasika hrvatske književnosti 20. stoljeća. Cijelo Hrvatsko narodno kazalište zauzeli su mladi srednjoškolci u pratnji svojih profesora, što je posebno lijep prizor s obzirom na opće zaziranje mladih od kulturnih […]
In Search of Freedom for Excellence (And Why an Internship Can Help Here)
Interview with Adit Barbullushi, a WYA Europe intern Just the other day when I was visiting WYA Europe Headquarters in Brussels, an idea came to my mind. While I was seeing the guys who were staying on the internship there, and while I was talking to them, I realized that almost all of them are […]
