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 The more I spend my days (and my very short nights) immersed in strategies, plans, budgets, people - flip charts, spreadsheets, Zoom calls – the more I love to hear about YMCA people doing incredible things all over the world. Like Steve Loh at YMCA Singapore. Watch the video below: Steve saw a need amongst many vulnerable people made even more vulnerable by Covid, and he met that need by rustling up cooks and drivers to prepare and deliver meals. It’s stories like this that keep me going, and we as a Movement are full of them. By the end of the year, I want to collect all your Covid stories, photos and videos, especially the ones that show young people as first responders in their own communities. Please send them to me at office@ymca.int
We’re coming to the end of a very tough year – for the YMCA Movement, and for young people the world over. And yet we’re upbeat, because Covid is an accelerator of change – an opportunity for change. More of that next year. For now, enjoy some of the latest news. Carlos Sanvee, Secretary-General - World YMCA
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YMCA Singapore and a fantastic Covid response
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A Week - and a world - of Prayer
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Week of Prayer 2020 fellowship service - Highlights!
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‘Rays of hope: creating resilient communities’ meant even more as the theme of the annual World Week of Prayer and Fellowship this year, as the world continues to face a global pandemic which has had profound impacts on young people’s employment, education, and mental and spiritual wellbeing. World YWCA created six themed reflections and a Bible reading plan for the year, and World YMCA hosted an online worldwide Fellowship service on 13 November. “We are overwhelmed by the quality and quantity of the content and response!” More
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Two partnerships in Health and Environment
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World YMCA has entered into two new partnership agreements, in two of its four main areas of impact: health and the environment.
“We are expanding our scope to collaborate for bigger impact, while advocating for a more active role for young people in facing the challenges of our times”, said Secretary-General Carlos Sanvee. More
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Focus - YMCA and children
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Y USA's support for kids in Covid times
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Youth empowerment is YMCA's first goal, which is why we are rightly associated with our work for and with teenagers and early 20s. But YMCA is there for young and old alike, for communities and for the vulnerable. And we start young: on World Children’s Day, 20 November, we put together some of the many stories of what we do for babies, toddlers, and kids. Thousands of YMCA people went on summer camps with their families when they were as young as 5, and they stayed as part of a Global Movement. More |
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Please ‘Save the Date’ for 16 December and be ready to join us online at 14:00 Geneva time as we present the results of our first ever ‘Reimagine’ laboratory for a global YMCA ‘Community of Impact’: this one is for mental health.
For 7 weeks in November/December, YMCA Australia is leading a series of worldwide workshops mapping our work in mental health, and coming up with solutions as to where it should head next.
Join us to hear the results and get a sense of the next steps. More details to follow.
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120 National YMCA Movements and 4 Regional Alliances, serving 65 million people a year
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On 1st November 2020, the Philippines were hit by Super Typhoon Goni (also known as Rolly). In support of the Asia and Pacific Alliance of YMCAs, World YMCA launched an appeal to support the great work of the YMCAs of Albay and Camarines Sur in helping their communities recover.
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CVJM (YMCA Germany) has launched TheoBasis at Home, a weekly online course for German-speaking Christians who want to deepen their knowledge of the Bible.
Read YMCA Europe’s best practice, best resources and best actions in the face of Covid.
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Latin America & the Caribbean (News)
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YMCA Peru is 100 years old. Hear Chairman Daniel Rivero and Secretary-General Miguel Luna on Miraflores Tv Digital.
YMCA Cali in Colombia organizes another El Pacífico Habita Nos, promoting cultural and local heritage through food, dance and music
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It’s more than 100 days since the blast in Beirut. The work of YMCA Lebanon on the ground continues, and you can still support .
YMCA East Jerusalem met the Governor of Bethlehem to present its Covid support work.
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North America (USA & Canada)
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Congratulations to all young people who received the 2020 YMCA Peace Medal for their contributions to a better world: Jill Lyman, Emily Womack and Duncan MacCallum, Corinne Saunders, Madelyns Diner – read more stories on the YMCA Canada Facebook page.
In Native American Heritage Month, YMCA Greater Seattle recognizes Rosalie Fish, a young runner who advocates for missing and murdered indigenous women.
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 Emma Osmundsen (YMCA England & Wales) was elected President of YMCA Europe on 20 November 2020, succeeding Mike Will (YMCA Scotland). "I may be the first woman in this role, but I will not be the last", she said. Read her YMCA vision for 'Relevance, Representation, Relationship and Resilience', and hear about YMCA Europe's year of three campaigns, and a new EU grant for the 'Roots for Peace' conflict resolution and rehabilitation programme, and its relevance now in Nagorno Karabakh. |
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YMCA Plattsburgh - Happy Thanksgiving, and Happy Christmas in advance! Children decorated a feather with their family to complete the turkey at school!
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