South African learners benefit from YMCA Y-Zones

School learners’ grades have improved substantially through involvement in the South Africa YMCA Y-Zone after-care programme which offers holistic development of participants.

Cape Town YMCA specif...

Tracking the male circumcision rollout in Africa

Medical male circumcision is now widely recognised as an important HIV prevention tool, and several African countries have included it in their national HIV strategies.

IRIN/PlusNews lists the prog...

Siyahamba migration editorial: Global citizens

Greetings YMCA family and friends

“It made no difference dying at sea or dying in my own country.”

This was one of the statements made by Diouf Ndiaga during his testimony at the Africa YMCA You...

The politics of discrimination

The Others were slow to arrive. The first of their kind arriving with a degree of luxury, rich in possessions, wealth and possibility. But they are afraid and most of us have met them with a begrudgin...

The Kenyan internally displaced: refugees in their own country

At Kenya’s Nakuru Pipeline camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) women sit on benches and converse in low tones as they weave kiondos (sisal market bags) while a few men lie sick with the reali...

Testimonial: Vitalis Ndakwe Wemali, Nakuru YMCA, Kenya

During the 2007-2008 post-election violence in Kenya I was 26-years-old and amongst the innocent Kenyans who experienced the wrath of other Kenyans. My family was made to leave our home in Nakuru, but...

Zimbabwe youth living a life of hiding on foreign soils

The issue of youth and migration in Zimbabwe has become integral to the process of making Zimbabwe work again. In spite of improvements in the country’s economic climate, migration still remains probl...

Illegal migration - the Senegal experience and plans

In the last decade there has been a sharp increase in the migratory flux from Senegal to Europe and with the reinforcement of the terrestrial border control system, Senegal became one of the first Afr...

By: Ricardo Johnson, Youth Coordinator, Athlone YMCA, South Africa

The migration issue is complex in terms of what actions to take, considering there as so many negative attitudes towards the immig...

YMCA civic engagement project provides hope in Togo election run-up

In the run-up to Togo’s presidential elections on 4 March 2010, many of her citizens hold a collective breath of fear and anticipation as Togo’s history has been marred by electoral violence and human...

A youth perspective of Mandela’s 20th anniversary of freedom

The 20th anniversary of the prison release of former South African President Nelson Mandela allowed for a brief period of introspection for many South Africans and marked the date of a fundamental shi...

AU appoints enigmatic Chairperson

Malawian President, Dr. Bingu Wa Mutharika, is by no means an easy man to describe. Vocal supporters and opponents of his leadership style, political presence and policies have furiously debated his i...