They rode to honour Wangari Maathai
On Wednesday, 2nd November, a historical feat was achieved by a group of 10 brave young men and women from a youth group based in Kakamega, who cycled over 500 kil...
Young activists from Soweto, Durban and Cape Town will help to blaze a new trail of awareness about climate change through Africa over the next month, as they travel from Nairobi to Durban in a “clima...
The African Alliance of YMCAs (AAYMCA) today launches a week-long campaign to plant 10,000 trees in Kenya in honour of the late Nobel Prize laureate Prof. Wangari Maathai. The trees will be planted by...
“Violence brings war and war is destructive. Violence does more harm than good. My eldest brother was killed at the start of the civil war in 1990; he does not have a grave. On June 8, 2003, my father...
Owing to the unity and love that exists between the Nakuru YMCA and other youth development partners such as Repacted, Kenya was the place to be from 8-9 September 2011 for innovative leadership devel...
“Deadly election-related and communal violence in northern Nigeria following the April 2011 presidential voting left more than 800 people dead... The victims were killed in three days of rioting in 12...
On Friday 7 October 2011, three women from Africa and the Middle East joined only 12 other women to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the award's 110 year history. Liberia's Ellen Johnson S...
It was a hot day in Kadoma, Zimbabwe, and gathered underneath the blazing sun were scores of residents of a traditionally densely populated part of the town. Everyone had come out to see a play ...
Young people have been instrumental in taking initiative and participating in issues affecting the globe at large. Climate justice, political awareness and political participation are issues in which ...
September has been a sad month in Nairobi, Kenya. We lost the lives of hundreds of Kenyans in several separate incidents, including a collapsed building and a fire along the Kenya oil pipeline where o...
Zambia YMCAs values democracy, it guarantees freedom in the country. Historically, Zambian people have built the foundation of democracy since independence in 1964. During the period from 1964 to 1991...
As the world begins to prepare for the United Nations Climate Negotiations at COP 17 to be held in Durban in November this year, South African president, Jacob Zuma, has been asked during his recent v...
The Liberia YMCA, under the Youth in Peace building and Governance Program, has recently hosted a one day consultative forum for youth groups in the country.
The Forum, in partnership with the Inter ...
Up and coming young Zimbabwean rap artist Admire Mike Chiparaushe (19) came up with a brilliant S2C song during the recent Transformative Masculinity programme development workshop which participants ...
The Liberia YMCA and the Federation of Liberian Youth FLY have concluded a two-day National Electoral Stakeholders’ dialogue.
The dialogue was held under the theme:”SAY NO TO VIOLENCE- Transformin...
The Zimbabwe YMCA Chairperson Langton Mabhanga recently pledged to finance a youth business plan to the value of USD$500.00. He made this pledge at a YMCA youth fundraising dinner where a Youth Empowe...
ADDIS ABABA, 2 September 2011 (IRIN) - In an effort to help some of the most vulnerable people in one of Ethiopia's most food insecure regions, the government of Tigray has launched a pilot scheme t...
From 6-27 November 2011, support for an increase in action on issues of climate change, and its effect on the youth worldwide, will be voiced throughout Africa as 50 young African YMCA members join 30...
The YMCA of Zimbabwe is hosting a programme development workshop on Transformative Masculinity (TM) which is a key segment of the Africa Alliance of YMCA’s flagship programme Subject 2 Citizen (S2C). ...
So here I am, at the end of my internship with the Africa Alliance of YMCA (AAYMCA). Time has flown and it seems that in the blink of an eye I went from getting overcharged for matatus (public transpo...
I am an African Child. It is in me when I look over the green high table lands and I can feel an electric impulse cascading down my spine with the sweet and anticipating smell of the rain forests. My ...
The need for sustained civic engagement program has never been more compelling and apparent than it is in present-day Liberia. Emerging from a devastating civil war about eight years ago and poised to...
Highlighting the role of youth as social actors and their potential as development partners, as well as inspiring the private sector to partner with youth, are some of the goals behind the newly relea...
Earlier this year we announced the ground-breaking social media campaign being launched by the Subject 2 Citizen (S2C) Ambassadors who had undergone their third phase of Ambassador training in Kenya. ...
The following is a letter by Eilert Rostrup, Director of the Karibu Foundation, sent to AAYMCA General Secretary, Carlos Sanvee, in response to the devastating attack on Norwegian youth. This letter h...
In 2009, three German youth leaders participated in the first Subject to Citizen (S2C) training in Ethiopia, at the Youth Summit, organised by the Africa Alliance of YMCAs. After intense days with aro...
Following on the heels of a highly successful year in the international arena, African music sensation and Africa YMCA Subject to Citizen (S2C) Champion, Chemphe, has broken into the lucrative South A...
Every year, a highlight on the Ghana YMCA’s programme calendar is an annual gathering of young people drawn from all regions across the country. The annual gathering, normally referred to as Ghana YMC...
Partners of the Americas (Partners), Universidad del Norte (UNINORTE), and the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE) seek submissions for youth prizes to be awarded at the 2nd IAVE Wor...
In the aftermath of the shocking terrorist attacks in Norway, against a country's youth by one of its own, the world has been left shocked and dismayed by the devastation one young man's actions cou...
The YMCA was appointed by the President of the 65th General Assembly to deliver the speech on behalf of the youth of the world during the opening ceremony of the High-Level Meeting on Youth on July 25...
These are the easiest of times; these are the most difficult of times. To be young in Africa at the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century is to be impressed by the sense of possibility ah...
With 29 political parties and 1 coalition accredited by the National Elections Commission (NEC) of Liberia to contest in the ensuing 2011 elections, some political pundits say that democracy has been ...
Our world is facing an accelerating change regarding sustainability: oceans are suffering serious damages, prices of food and oil are increasing and there’s a lack of water. “How does this have to do ...
With Mandela Day coming up on Monday 18 July 2011, individuals, corporations, community organisations and NGO's throughout the world have begun to prepare for their hour of activism.
Former South Af...
The Ghana YMCA "is seen now, by many, as a sleeping giant, a perception which affects our activities and needs to be addressed immediately," states Kwabena Nketia Addae, the new NGS of Ghana YMCA, as ...
I am really excited to be back in Kenya after a successful time at the Global Youth Week and TT Festival held between 22 June and 4 July 2011, in Norway. The two weeks in Norway was a great oppor...
As a child, I used to say that,”When I grow up I want to be a doctor”. That was my dream until my parents passed away when I was seven years old. I grew up in poverty, with no-one to pay my school fee...
As South Sudan becomes the world's 193 country and Africa's 54th independent nation today, new opportunities for progress can be found amidst the massive challenges facing one of Africa's poorest coun...
This week in Norway, we see the continuation of KFUK/KFUM's celebration of global YMCA citizenship and the vocal youth call to stop poverty within the next 20 years. During Global Week last week,...
Guenter Ozdyk is the newest addition to the Africa Alliance of YMCAs (AAYMCA) team. Sponsored by the Church Development Service, an association of Protestant churches in Germany, Guenter will be worki...
“Why are all these people walking and shouting?” asked a curious old woman. “They are commemorating the Day of the African Child” replied the youth group leader with pride. “But their voices sound lik...
It is estimated that 35, 000 children across the world are dying every day as a result of poverty. Every human being has the right to life, and more importantly, a life without poverty. It is as a res...
Dr. David Epperson, former member of the World Alliance of YMCAs Executive Committee and former Chairman of the Board of the YMCA of the USA passed away on June 20 and was laid to rest on Saturday 25 ...
Over 2 000 Ten Singers from all over Europe, and even further, will meet from July 31 to 6 August in the small town of Ziegenhain in Germany for the one week TEN SING Festival. The preparations are in...
Africa has been described as the continent of the last frontier. It is indeed the richest continent in the world in terms of human and natural resources.
Many of the wars being fought in the Democr...
On 24 June 2011, from 6pm, The Gambia YMCA will be hosting a Youth Enterprise and Economic Opportunities Forum at the Paradise Suites Hotel in Kotu, The Gambia.
Funded by the Big Lottery Fund (BLF), ...
ADDIS ABABA, 16 June 2011 (PlusNews) - Kokobe Abate is a widow struggling to raise her daughter Almaz in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The death of her husband hit the family hard, but he had ...
From 9 to 12 May in Bagbe, Togo, the AAYMCA hosted a board development workshop and an AAYMCA executive committee meeting. The theme of the workshop was “Turning around your YMCA” during times of di...
If you could ask for anything in the world for your school would it be a pencil, desk, food or school fees? Probably not right? I tried to imagine what I would have said at the tender age of eight if ...
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