The WYA Europe internship – an enriching experience both in person and online!
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, I was extremely lucky to be able to have had the opportunity to do an internship for World Youth Alliance both in Brussels for 2 months and online for 1 month from September – December. Before arriving in Brussels to start my internship, I didn’t have many expectations due to COVID-19. […]
ELC 2020 – A Truly Interactive Conference
Two weeks ago, I attended the Emerging Leaders Conference on Women’s Health and Rights, organised by the World Youth Alliance Europe, co-funded by the European Youth Foundation, a fund established by the Council of Europe. I was pleasantly surprised at the content. When you think ‘conference’, and that too on Zoom, you might imagine someone […]
Meet WYA Europe’s New Batch of Interns
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, World Youth Alliance continues to welcome members from each corner of the world and in Europe, the internship program is being conducted in person, meaning the interns are working along with the staff in the Brussels office. This fall, WYA Europe presents our new three interns that will conduct their internship […]
CTP Trainers Lead “Read the CTP” Pilot in WYA Africa (Part 1)
During the months of August and September, WYA Headquarters and WYA Africa will be hosting the pilot “Read the CTP with the WYA Trainers” in Africa. Led by the WYA Africa Regional Director, Cynthia Wangari, WYA hopes to introduce the core Certified Training Program (CTP) readings to WYA members and potential CTP trainees, educate members […]
Reflections on Power of the Powerless
“Our concern is whether we can live with dignity in such a system, whether it serves people rather than people serving it,” wrote Václav Havel. While reflecting on the impact of the “Power of the Powerless”, the essay that discusses the aspects of dissent in Czechoslovakia during the Cold War, I had a déjà vu […]
Meet the First Internship Batch of 2020!
In sunny – and sometimes cold – 71st Street of New York is the World Youth Alliance Headquarters, hosting over 10 interns from 4 different continents. The warmth of this internship batch can be felt through the happy smiles and bubbly atmosphere once you walk into the house. As the first internship batch of 2020, […]
Meeting the 2020 Viktor Frankl Awardees
“WYA is a place of inspiration, determination, and friendship which one enters into in order to seek and defend a very crucial element of our world: the human person.” – Rebecca Bruch, 2020 Viktor Frankl Awardee for North America WYA is delighted to present the Viktor Frankl Award to exemplary members from the Philippines, Kenya, […]
European Identity and Human Dignity?
A Croat, an Italian and an Austrian walk in to a bar… Or should I put it like this – a group of 45 young people who seemingly having nothing in common but curiosity about human dignity walk into the same venue, spend a week together and prove every single person that ever said “ahh, […]
HDHR – Vienna, The Experience of Human Dignity in Community
[su_tabs active=”2″][su_tab title=”English”] From the 24th to the 28th of November, 5 of us Croats, along with the other 40 project participants, had a unique opportunity to participate in the Youth for Human Dignity and Human Rights project organized by WYA Austria. Impression no. 1: Win –win situation: Vienna’s first experience will be accompanied by […]
World Youth Alliance: the HDHR project
[su_tabs active=”2″][su_tab title=”English”] A week in Vienna, with young people from different countries of the world to talk about human rights, learn more about the European Union, the current situation of the countries that are part of it and share opinions and proposals. A very rich and intense week during which we have learned so […]
