By God’s grace, the hope of the world is in young people’s hands
This year YMCA Baden in Germany (CVJM Baden) is celebrating its 125th anniversary. It has published a special edition of...
YMCA global conversations: Afghanistan
On Monday 30 August 2021 – a fortnight after the Taliban took Kabul, and as violence continued across the country...
World YMCA support for Covid vaccination – in theory and in practice
In early February 2021, World YMCA stated on behalf of the global YMCA Movement that every person should have the right to...
COVID brought new opportunities for YMCAs
YMCA community services were severely affected by Covid and by lockdown, but there were silver linings as YMCAs steered themselves...
“You have to take the lead when it is needed”
Robert Feith, 48, has been the Secretary General of YMCA Netherlands for the past 7 years. He tells us how...
Living out our faith
An Easter message to the worldwide YMCA Movement from Carlos Sanvee, World YMCA Secretary General Holy Week, Tuesday 30 March 2021 Easter...
Call for Applications for small grants to fund YMCA National Projects
World YMCA, in collaboration with the Big 6 Alliance of Youth Organizations, is engaged in the Global Youth Mobilization for...
International Women’s Day 2021
We asked a few women from our Movement what are their thoughts, ideas and wishes to reinforce this journey to...
World YMCA Annual Report 2020
The Annual Report charts both the immediate and the long-term practical and strategic response (‘Resilience’, ‘Recovery’, ‘Reimagination’) to the COVID-19 pandemic....
YMCA calls for COVID-19 vaccine to be freely and equally available to all
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives of billions of people in every corner of the world, and drastically curtailed...
YMCA supports COVID-19 vaccination process
As of January 2021, the COVID-19 vaccination process has started in some countries, but we are met with fresh challenges...
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...