U.S. to stop funding organizations that provide, promote abortion abroad

President Trump signs executive order limiting foreign assistance grant eligibility Jan 23, 2017 WASHINGTON—Today, United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order reinstating a development aid policy which prohibits U.S. agencies from issuing grants to organizations that promote or perform abortions abroad. This policy is commonly known as the Mexico City Policy, as it was first […]

Krakow, the city that gave us the WYA Charter

My sister, Mary, once had a shirt made for me that said “I wrote the Charter”. Hundreds of thousands of young people have now signed this WYA Charter that was finalized in Krakow, Poland. Krakow, one of the medieval centerpieces of the world was a market town in which east meets west, and people traded goods, […]

The life you save might be your own

  Today, an ad article sponsored by Cadillac for GQ landed in my feed. The slogan for the ad feature is “Only those who dare, drive the world forward.” It features the “Daring 25” with slick photography of beautiful, successful people who dare to change the world. One has started a bespoke tie company. Another […]

Celebrating 2016 European Day of Safe Birth and Motherhood

World Youth Alliance Europe contributed to the celebration of the European Day of Safe Birth and Motherhood with the presence of Antoine Mellado, WYA Europe’s director of advocacy as one of the panelists at the Conference on Safe Birth and Maternal Health. The death of a mother not only affects her family and put their children at […]

What is Beauty? Intervention of Mafalda at the European Arts Forum 2015.

During the first edition of the European Arts Forum held in Brussels last November 2015, 40 young artists and art-lovers as well as scholars, European decision-makers and cultural associations representatives from around Europe gathered together to examine the relationship between art and the human condition. We had the great joy to welcome Mafalda Pereira da Cunha […]

FEMM for Everyone

“Hello?” “Hi, you need to hurry. There is a line wrapping around the block!” It was a humid fall afternoon in Columbus, OH, as we raced across the Ohio State University campus carrying boxes of flyers to the Student Involvement Fair. We easily spotted the rest of our FEMM volunteer crew, a purple rose situated between the […]

A Week to Remember at WYA International Summer Camp

  As I boarded the bus with an over-packed duffel bag and a bursting-at-the seams backpack, I was incredibly excited for WYA’s International Summer Camp. Even though I attended the camp last summer, I knew that this year would be different. There was going to be twenty campers – the largest amount WYA has had […]