Convenient and Inconvenient Truths about the “Right to Die”
In 2016, a romantic movie based on a novel hit the big screen which captured the interest of young people all over the world. It had a familiar love story: wealthy boy meets poor girl; they fall in love; they fight; but eventually reconcile and live happily ever after. Or so it first appeared, until […]
WYA Africa: Meet the Batch 2 2019 Interns
Milkah Ndung’u is a Kenyan, born and raised in Nairobi. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Communication from Tangaza University, The Catholic University of East Africa. She is passionate about humanity and social cohesion which led her to start a forum, Global Hope. She, together with other like-minded youths, have taken it upon themselves […]
WYA Africa: Taking a Bow
It’s Friday May 31, 2019 and I notice my name on the ‘Article Writing Schedule’. I am due to submit a blog by June 3, 2019; my last as a staff serving World Youth Alliance Africa. I realise I have a lot to write about as this to me is really a parting shot. The […]
The Beauty of Solidarity: “The Winning Team”
The idea of an internship for most of us is to learn new skills that we can apply in our different fields. It is a platform that can help us put our ideas into action and knowledge to practice. This is what I had in mind when I applied for the World Youth Alliance internship […]
The Camp that Changed my Perspective
Living in the age and era of “computers”, camping is not something I would enthusiastically go for. Imagine: a week sleeping in a dark tent with just a flashlight as the best source of light, having no internet, having to remember to charge my phone before going back to the tent, waking up at dawn […]
Freedom for Excellence: A Story of Courage.
Not so long ago my country Kenya experienced a very sad event. This sad event was a terrorist attack at a local, uptown hotel in Nairobi. The first time I was old enough to understand what a terrorist attack was and what it meant was 6 years ago while in my third year in high […]
WYA Africa: Meet our Batch 1 2019 Interns
Wambui Njehu was born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Nairobi and thereafter pursued the Advocates Training Programme at the Kenya School of Law. She has an inquisitive mind and is always looking to gain knowledge in various fields as well as to […]
Still Becoming
It being my first time in New York, the initial title for this ‘reflection blog’ was naturally “Coming to America’ (obviously inspired by the hilarious 1988 Eddie Murphy movie, which I hear has a sequel already). He plays the role of a young man looking to do more for himself and is on a quest […]
Meeting the 2019 Viktor Frankl Awardees
“When these (WYA’s) values are translated into actions, no matter how simple or small, they lead and ripple into big and positive changes.” WYA is delighted to present the Viktor Frankl Award to exemplary members from the Philippines, Kenya, Germany, Guatemala, Lebanon, and the United States of America. Now on its third year, the Viktor […]
My Takeaways from WYA Africa’s 9th Emerging Leaders Conference
Between the 14th and 16th of November 2018, I was privileged to attend the World Youth Alliance Africa 9th Annual Emerging Leaders Conference in Strathmore University at the Microsoft Auditorium. The sole purpose of the event was to create a platform where we could have youth from all over our continent interact with leaders and […]
