Youth for the Future

One place, one goal, and one nation. I recently joined 700 other youth and adult leaders from across the Philippines to learn about and help make an impact on the Sustainable Development Goals. As an intern representative of World Youth Alliance Asia Pacific (WYAAP), my experience in that event changed the way I view things. […]

Youth Unemployment in Europe

On Thursday, 14th September 2017, the European Media Platform – Euractiv held a conference on Youth Unemployment, where the findings of the European Community funded project STYLE and the related book were presented. The academics reflected on and highlighted the results of their recent research on the causes of youth unemployment. WYAE Interns attending the […]

AAF 2017: Preserve Traditional African Style Architecture

Mention that you live in a mud house to African urbanites, and you will get incredulous looks that can be interpreted to ‘how archaic’ or ‘you poor thing’ as people silently imagine your dark cold hut, tucked away somewhere in the African slums or rural environs. Until they find out that this home, you have […]

AAF 2017: Preserve Traditional African Music and Dance

African history and culture, is recorded and transmitted in many ways in Africa, and deeply ingrained and expressed clearly through the many different forms of art, such as storytelling, sculpture, rock art, masks, poetry and especially music and dance which are African art forms deeply woven into the very fabric of social life, and play […]

Chapter 1: My WYA Story

Four days could really make a difference. I proved that statement when my friends and I joined the first ever Chapter Leadership Training or CLT here in the city of Iloilo in the Philippines.

Family, Struggle, and the Vulnerable

The 12th of May 2017 was no ordinary day. It was the International Day of the Family. In Kenya, the national event took place at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) Auditorium. The conference was organized by the Kenya Christian Professional Forum in conjunction with the Ministry of Labour and other partners including the World […]

Here’s to a Wonderful Summertime!

I clearly remember that time I was checking the web and found the website of World Youth Alliance. Feeling curious, I read through the pages and it sparked my interest just after minutes I opened it. Knowing that WYA Asia Pacific  will hold it’s 11th Asia Pacific Summer Camp, I applied without any hesitation. After going […]

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 […]

On Marching for Life: Reflections From the 2017 MFL

On January 27, 2017, WYA sent two staff members and four interns to Washington, D.C., for the March for Life. See the press release here, and find post-March reflections from the group below. Ever since my first trip to D.C. for the March, years ago, my favorite moment during has been cresting the hill just before […]

Our Common Purpose

“No man is an island,” as the old adage goes. It implies that no one is assumed to go through life and its densities completely alone. However, as time progress and ideas and opinions abound on how one must go through such densities, we get isolated, separated from one another. In the assertion that our […]