The World Alliance of YMCAs supports and facilitates some 120 national YMCAs and four regional Alliances across the globe, to provide young people with safe spaces and opportunities to take an active role in transforming their communities. Collectively, the YMCA Movement reaches some 65 million people a year.

Our vision is a world where every person lives in harmony with self, with society and with creation.

The YMCA’s mission is to empower young people and communities worldwide to build a just, sustainable, equitable and inclusive world, where every person can thrive in body, mind and spirit.


World YMCA

We're going live in ONE HOUR! The Ignite Show episode 3 is nearly here.

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World YMCA

Join Kevin and Mafe and the first episode of the YMCA Ignite Show now! Showcasing how colleagues worldwide are working to implement and activate Vision 2030 and its pillars of Community Well-being, Meaningful Work, Sustainable Planet and Just World. Aiming to inspire and inform you about the global YMCA movement, and its future direction.

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World YMCA

Join us every Thursday at 4pm CET for a six-part series sharing the story of inspiring youth-led solutions on climate action from around the world. Each conceived during the Youth-Led Solutions Summit on Climate Action in October 2020, the initiatives all received seed funding to bring their ideas to fruition. Young leaders are championing change in communities around the world, and these are their stories.

Check out the playlist now and set reminders: bit.ly/ylsclimate

🏫 6 January - C.A.R.E for Climate (Albay, Philippines/Ann Arbor, USA)
🌳13 January - #TeamTrees (Kosovo)
🪱 20 January - Global Worming/E-Waste Recycling (Hawai’i, USA)
🪴27 January - BrinGreen (East Jerusalem)
🚻 3 February - Sumaq Muru (Peru)
🏫 10 February - Y Climate Change (Ndola, Zambia)

#YMCAYouthLedSolutions

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