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...
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