An Ancient Debate: Voluntary Euthanasia in the school of Socrates

  As WYA’s North America Journalism Extern in Europe, I came to Belgium to research the societal trends of euthanasia and assisted suicide. It’s trajectory has been swift and the rising numbers alarming. In 2014, the Belgium government made history by becoming the first country in the world to legalize voluntary euthanasia for children without […]

#WYAtravels to Sri Lanka and Nepal | Meet the Batch 1 Interns for 2018

  GLOBAL NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2018   WYA kicked off the start of 2018 with a WYAAP South Asia tour to Sri Lanka and Nepal headed by our WYAAP Regional Director and WYA President. Meanwhile, the WYA Headquarters in New York welcome five young ladies to the roster of interns hailing from different parts of the […]

WYA Europe Trains New CTP Trainers at the University Of Navarra

On February 2nd and 3th, WYA Europe Regional Director of Operations Anita Dekanić was at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain to train members to be future Certified Training Program teachers. On the first day, future trainers went through the key points of the first four Chapters of WYA’s Certified Training Program. They had […]

WYA Africa: Meet our Batch 1 2018 Interns

Barbine Irabaruta is a Rwandan citizen currently pursuing her bachelors degree in finance at Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. She enjoys adventure, cultural diversity, meeting new people, traveling, and participating in productive activities. She is also passionate to make a difference in whatever she does. Barbine joined World Youth Alliance with a […]

WYAE Interns represent Belgium at Erasmus+ Training course in Italy

The Erasmus + Training course under the theme “Employment & Competencies 4 Success” was held in Reggio Calabria, Italy, from 4th to 11th of October 2017. Altogether, 31 participants, from 13 different EU countries met to take part in training activities developed and organized by the EuroDemos Youth Mobility NGO. The interns in the WYA […]

Meet our New HDC Partner: St. Agnes School!

13 September 2017 — St. Paul, MN St. Agnes School, in St. Paul, MN, is WYA’s newest HDC partner. As of January 2018, the school will offer the Human Dignity Curriculum (HDC) to its students from kindergarten through the eighth grade as part of the school’s more overarching character formation, for a total of 436 students […]

Meet our New HDC Partner: Brilla College Preparatory Charter Schools!

28 August 2017 – Bronx, NY The Brilla College Preparatory Charter Schools have incorporated the World Youth Alliance’s Human Dignity Curriculum (HDC) into their character initiatives approach, which seeks “to educate students to lead lives of excellence, virtue and purpose.”[1] El Camino, a faith formation program that partners with Brilla College Preparatory Charter Schools, served […]

Human Dignity Curriculum: An experience in Mexico

On 2014, the Human Dignity Curriculum (HDC) made it down to Mexico for the testing of a pilot. This was the first HDC pilot to be conducted in Spanish and it was administered by the staff of World Youth Alliance Latin America. HDC was administered to a bilingual school, located in the south of Mexico […]

The Best Time of My Life

The first few times I ever encountered the World Youth Alliance (WYA) was when three of classmates talked about it when they joined the summer camp back in 2015, and last January when the WYA Iloilo Chapter held a seminar for high school students. After those encounters, I started to do more research on WYA […]