The upcoming African YMCA Youth Summit will focus on African youth claiming their space and influencing for positive transformation in the continent. Participants are raising USD1000 each towards thei...
The African Youth Charter will enter into force on 9 August 2009, following the deposit of the 15th instrument of ratification by The Gambia.
Fittingly, the African Youth Charter was adopted by th...
The Minister of Youth and Sports of The Gambia recently appointed Joseph Peacock, Programmes Secretary of The Gambia YMCA, to an eight-person taskforce of the National Youth Council of The Ministry of...
“The Ethiopia YMCA board now has a clear direction of our responsibilities for our term of office and with the recent board orientation and leadership tools provided – the first type of training we ha...
A subject is a young person with limited rights and a citizen is a youth who is a partner in national development, according to young people who recently took part in a YMCA survey on civic competence...
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He stood by their tent while his two daughters were raped... in return for the family accessing food for their survival at the refugee camp. This father fina...
The sound of vuvuzelas, chanting, jeers and cheers will pervade South Africa for the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup next June. It will bring with it, an influx of cash from the estimated 500 000 internati...
In an effort to empower some of the poorest women in Kenya and to combat poverty in a sustainable way, Kenya YMCA has initiated 115 self-help groups (SHGs) in Kilifi and Ndeiya, two of the most impove...
Kahaso Tosfwa is a 72-year-old widow with eight children. Three and a half years ago, she was gored by a goat which resulted in a broken leg and her having to use crutches when walking. In 2006 when s...
Women in Casanance, Senegal, are benefiting from a four-year Senegal YMCA initiative to rebuild the lives of youth and children in this post-conflict area.
The 25-year war in Casamance was Wes...
The YMCA has helped us (the women of Mpack village) to develop a market gardening project. This has brought an outstanding change in our lives as women and in that of our respective familes. Since we ...
Current projects of the Sierra Leone YMCA seek to encourage appreciable gender participation compared to the early operational era of the association. This is evident in ongoing projects which include...
Fatmata Koroma is a 28-year-old widow with four children between the ages of 4 and 11, who lived in Kenema until the death of her husband in 2002. After he passed away, she felt there was no-one to ...
In 2007, the YMCAs in Africa adopted a Gender Policy to contribute to the realisation of equality between men and women in Africa, with a particular focus on youth development, through the working env...
