Where West Meets East

Every second year YMCA Europe holds its Catch the Vision conferences in places, where exposure to the context becomes an important part of these events’ logic – Balkans, Caucasus, Middle East.

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Field Group Ukraine met in Kirovograd

Field Group Ukraine met in Kirovograd 24 September. Fourteen people from seven countries took part in the meeting. Before the meeting the representatives in the Field Group participated in YMCA Ukraine’s Conference (Annual General Assembly) in Kiev 22-23 September.

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It’s mY story – Roots for Reconciliation Programme Festival

August 23 – 29, in Shushi (Nagorno Karabagh) the first programme festival – ProFest – was held within the YMCA Europe Roots for Reconciliation project. ‘It’s mY story’ was the motto of this ProFest with an overall aim to promote stronger youth activism towards peaceful transformation of conflicts in Europe, the region of South Caucasus especially considered.

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YMCA World Urban Network meets in Madrid, Spain

More than 70 CEO´s and General Secretaries from YMCAs in North and Latin America, Africa, Asia-Pacific and Europe met in Madrid from July 17th to the 22nd . The YMCA World Urban Network (WUN) is a platform of urban General Secretaries/Chief Executive Officers “dedicated to improving their personal leadership and impact of the YMCA on their communities by sharing knowledge and expertise with their world colleagues”. The conference was led by Peter Burns, Chair of the WUN and CEO Bill Stewart.

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