(03 August 2010, Hong Kong) It has become an almost global phenomenon that young people will queue for hours, waiting anxiously to buy the latest iPods, Blackberries and other ‘must-haves’ when they a...
In a place as economically successful and growth-oriented as Hong Kong, it may seem rather anachronous to be learning lessons on micro-financing from the Bangladesh and Ecuador YMCAs. But this sharing...
The first night, an energetically played full piece drum kit resounds through the middle-class Johannesburg (South Africa) complex. The second night, sounds of a loud and violent fight between a man a...
The system of male domination is no new thing in our world today, but the danger is that we as young men do not question it as we are born and socialised into it without being exposed to a masculinity...
You all know the cool, keeping-it-real Chemphe with the smooth voice and energetic stage presence. But I have discovered the king of Urban Life has some hidden talents.
Two months back I hooked ...
Now is the time for young people to take a greater leadership role in global affairs and they must empower them with the skills to effectively operate in an increasingly globalised world.
This is...
Those of us at the Africa YMCA Partnership Summit and Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) were fascinated by the performance of the YMCA Tema Acapela group. This team of five young people harmonise beaut...
Held from 4-6 May, the Partnership Summit drew together 120 participants, with a focus on renewing and strengthening relationships between Africa and international partners to ensure the vision and ...
The Partnership Summit was a rare opportunity for introspection. Such was long overdue, following many years of cooperation in bilateral relationships, and also more recently in the GOP process(1). ...
From Subject to Citizen (S2C) is now a reality and will stay with us. When we met in Accra, Ghana, on 2-3 May for our second phase of training as S2C Ambassadors, it was clear that we have done a lo...
Newly elected Executive Committee President of the Africa Alliance of YMCAs (AAYMCA), James Ekow Rhule, brings with him almost three-decades of experience in the YMCA and an enthusiastic passion for...
At the 2010 Ordinary General Meeting held in May in Accra, Ghana, Zambia YMCA’s self professed “enemy of procrastination”, Mutale Chanda was elected as the Youth Representative for the Africa Allian...
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of t...
Newly elected Executive Committee President of the Africa Alliance of YMCAs (AAYMCA), James Ekow Rhule, has been a member of the Ghana YMCA since 1982 and served as the National Youth President for th...
On 16 June 2010, International Day of the African Child, amidst Africa’s 2010 Fifa World Cup frenzy, the Africa Alliance of YMCA’s can’t help but look back on history and give an appreciative nod in a...
This year, in celebration of Africa Day, I found myself working doggedly behind a computer to launch the new YouTube space of Africa Alliance of YMCA’s (AAYCA). Which is particularly ironic, since the...
South African President, Jacob Zuma, recently joined other African leaders who have publically disclosed their HIV status in an attempt to remove the taboo and stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS in Africa an...
Ghana, Accra: At a recent gathering of leaders, African YMCAs reached a turning point in establishing a renewed partnership both within Africa and with international partners.
Meeting from 2-9 May,...
I’m a youth with a dream...
Let’s stand together
I’m a youth with a dream
So I will rise up, stand up and fight for my rights
So take me as a part of u
Don’t see me a subject
But a C...
As we are move towards our next Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) of African YMCAs where new volunteer leaders will be elected to take up office, it is important to reflect on why, as YMCAs, we focus on ...
It is not often that we are presented with a way of looking at our roles within advocacy work through a new lens. Typically, leaders become the names and faces that represent the courage, sacrifice, d...
The five dimensions of courageous followership
The courage to assume responsibilityCourageous followers assume responsibility for themselves and the organization. They do not hold a paternalistic ...
Globalisation, political transition and technical innovation have created new opportunities to improve the living standards of millions of people. There are widespread concerns, however, that people i...
Research and analysis suggests that the youth today are, through the growing rate of poverty, greatly susceptible to socio-economic concerns such as substance abuse, joblessness, unhealthy lifestyles,...
The establishment of an African YMCA Leadership Academy in Togo, West Africa, is a bold step forward for the movement, as the Academy is the first of its kind in the African YMCA history.
“There is...
April 29, 2010
We are all leaders; we are all followers
“If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing where would be the smelling? But now God has set the members, each one...
African-wide youth development organisation, the Africa Alliance of YMCAs' (AAYMCA), has teamed up with popular Ghanaian musician Chemphe (pronounced Chem-fe), to launch their new From Subject 2 Citiz...
The 25-year-long low-level civil war in Casamance, Senegal, has resulted in ongoing sporadic violence and devastated communities within the area. Many children and young people have been without acces...
The Kenya YMCA has just appointed Jared Musima to lead the national movement. Musima steps into his position as the new National General Secretary after joining the YMCA in 1994 as a youth intern, ult...
The high profile murder of controversial white supremacy leader Eugéne Terre’Blanche, allegedly by two youths aged 15 and 28, will see one of the first instances of a minor child being charged for mur...
A three-day psychosocial workshop took place in mid-March at the LOIC compound in Monrovia, Liberia, for counsellors in the Youth in Peace Building and Governance Programme.
With support from ...
Marking the 60th anniversary of the World Health Organization’s, “World Health Day” is a growing awareness of the changing nature of our understandings of poverty and health within our immediate urban...
With renewed international investment in African development, food security has become a core component of Africa’s social advancement. Food security, in respect to food availability, access and adequ...
Many of us were overwhelmed by the interest raised by last year’s UN Summit on Climate Change. Though the outcomes were very disappointing, especially for the NGO community and civil society organisat...
HIV infection prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa accounts for almost two-thirds of HIV infections amongst the 15-24 age group globally, and of those, 75% of the infected are women and girls. Since the w...
Over 13 000 young people have benefitted from the reproductive health and HIV/AIDS services of the Liberia YMCA Drop-in Centre, situated at the headquarters in Monrovia, the capital city. A join...
You can’t enjoy a toffee in a wrapper... AIDS is brought by monkeys... sex with a virgin will cure you... AIDS has been around for a long time, and we are all going to die sometime anyway... it stands...
Sixteen-year-old Henok Solomon is a volunteer peer educator at Urael YMCA in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Born and raised in Debere Brehane as an only child, he lost his father at age seven to tuberculosis ...
“… there is enough mandate and leadership for action. What is needed is more concerted efforts to contain the epidemic and mitigate its impact on individuals, families and communities” Adv. Blen...
• 2008 statistics published by UNAIDS in November 2009 indicate that about 33.4 million people are now living with HIV, of which over 30 million live in low- and middle-income countries. The Worl...
Celebrating its 20th anniversary this week, the YMCA Girls Vocational Training Centre in Ghana is as relevant now as when it was first established to meet a critical need in the market.
Ghana YMCA ...
Youth in rural areas are more competent than urban youth. This was a key finding of a YMCA baseline survey which tested youth civic competence in three African countries.
Participating youth in Zim...
Today, in preparation for this Women’s Day article, I ran a search on famous African females in history. I am a little perplexed that the only responses I could find seemed to be limited to African Am...
8 March 2010: On the edges of the Ruzizi River Bridge that joins the border of Rwanda with that of the Congo, hundreds of women danced, chanted and cheered their hopes for a future absent of the viole...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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