Equipping the YMCA Digital Generation
How do we ensure children and young people have the right competencies to find their dream jobs in the near...
In Memoriam, Mireille Gilles
World YMCA learned with great sadness of the passing of Mireille Gilles this week. She was a longstanding and much...
YMCA Lebanon continues to help rebuild lives
Five months after the massive explosion which killed some 2000 people and injured 7,000 more in Beirut, YMCA Lebanon is...
2021: a message from our Secretary General
Dear friends, 2020 brought massive disruption to the YMCA Movement and to millions of young people. But while some of our programmes...
60 years with YMCA in Brazil, from girl to grandmother
“Every day in the YMCA is like my first day”, says Marisia Donatelli, CEO of YMCA São Paulo, Brazil, nearly 60...
YMCA and Covid in 2020
It is a story of resilience and hope. Look back with us at the YMCA response to the pandemic, all over...
Becoming an ‘Adaptive YMCA’ for the 21st Century
World YMCA published a blueprint for the entire YMCA Movement to navigate through and out of the Covid pandemic today,...
130 Change Agents from 50 countries graduate
‘Be the change you want to see’, said World YMCA President Patricia Pelton, quoting Mahatma Gandhi, as she congratulated 130...
Big 6 Youth Organisations launch policy recommendations for the post-pandemic reality
Geneva, 15 December 2020. The Big Six – the world’s six largest youth organisations – have called on governments and...
Launch of “Global Youth Mobilization for Generation Disrupted”
World YMCA and five other youth organizations join WHO in launching global mobilization to respond to disruptive impacts of COVID-19...
Youth empowerment in Covid-19 times
Local YMCAs have stepped up support for vulnerable people hit by the Covid-19 pandemic in Latin America, with funding both...
Two global youth fora look to the future
World YMCA was there to hear the United Nations and the International Youth Foundation examine the direction of youth policy...