The second day of the Fellows’ Conference is focussed on making action plans for how to engage with the most significant challenges Myanmar is facing today. An inspiring example of that is three...
Four days ago hundreds of young people in the remotest corners of Myanmar packed their bags and left home by foot, motorbike or bus. Reaching bigger towns they met other Fellows and continued the...
Yesterday night after the first day of the 4th Fellows´Conference in Myanmar (read the first days impressions here), I had the opportunity to meet a group of youth that in december 2012 initiated and...
It's not just the immense pre-monsoon humidity that strikes me sitting in the back of this huge open-space conference hall in the capital of Myanmar, it is also the feeling that a strong movement is...
Monrovia is grabbing the headlines this week because we are hosting the High Level Panel that is working on what should come after the Millennium Development Goals – the MDGs. President Sirleaf is...
This post is written by Ebrima Ceesay, who is a core Activista in Activista the Gambia.Recently, I was fortunate to represent Activista the Gambia as a conference delegate at this noble gathering of...
When I first joined ActionAid, I was struck by the significance of the three pillars in our theory of change: empowerment, campaigning and solidarity.An important set of ingredients for tackling...
Having just returned from the annual Activista Forum in Amman, I have had a moment to reflect. And in doing so, I have been most struck by the individual stories of each dynamic young participant....
As I sit in a tea shop in Pyapon, eating a bowl of steaming noodle soup for breakfast, I am struck by the comments from our current current group of Youth fellows that I met the previous night.I am...
