ANNUAL REPORT 2020 EMPOWERING YOUNG PEOPLE GREENLAND (DENMARK) SVALBARD (NORWAY) YMCA ICELAND YMCA RUSSIA 1900 YMCA SWEDEN 1844 1899 YMCA FINLAND YMCA POLAND 1923 YMCA NORWAY 1878 1886 YMCA CANADA YMCA CZECH REPUBLIC 1920 1851 YMCA SLOVAKIA 1920 YMCA DENMARK1878 YMCA ESTONIA 1919 YMCA LATVIA 1923 YMCA NETHERLANDS 1851 YMCA LITHUANIA 1932 YMCA BELARUS 1994 YMCA MOLDOVA 1996 YMCA IRELAND 1849 YMCA HUNGARY 1883 YMCA GERMANY YMCA BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 2011 YMCA ENGLAND AND WALES 1844 1848 YMCA BELGIUM 1853 YMCA UKRAINE YMCA MONGOLIA 1993 YMCA AUSTRIA 1996 YMCA SERBIA 2008 2002 YMCA YMCA BULGARIA 1883 YMCA SWITZERLAND 1852 FRANCE YMCA GEORGIA 1991 ROMANIA 1851 YMCA ARMENIA 1992 YMCA USA 1851 YMCA YMCA KOREA 1888 SPAIN YMCA PORTUGAL 1894 YMCA ITALY YMCA JAPAN 1880 1880 1851 YMCA CHINA YMCA LEBANON 1890 YMCA NEPAL 1990 1885 YMCA HONGKONG CYPRUS 1901 YMCA JERUSALEM INTERNATIONAL 1878 YMCA BANGLADESH 1965 YMCA MACAU YMCA EAST JERUSALEM 1848 YMCA PAKISTAN 1991 YMCA MALTA 1976 YMCA JORDAN 1961 YMCA MONTENEGRO 2011 1876 YMCA ALBANIA 2008 YMCA GAZA 1952 YMCA YMCA KOSOVO 2003 YMCA BAHAMAS 1966 YMCA EGYPT MEXICO YMCA CUBA 1905 YMCA N.MACEDONIA 1999 1909 YMCA INDIA YMCA TAIWAN 1945 1891 YMCA GREECE 1892 YMCA HAITI 1895 1854 YMCA YMCA DOMINICAN MYANMAR REPUBLIC 1963 1897 YMCA JAMAICA 1920 YMCA BELIZE 1987 YMCA NIGER YMCA ARUBA YMCA GUATEMALA 1964 YMCA HONDURAS 1990 YMCA SENEGAL 1982 2004 YMCA THAILAND 1930 YMCA 1956 YMCA SUDAN EL SALVADOR 1990 YMCA YMCA YMCA BARBADOS 1880 YMCA THE GAMBIA 1979 PHILIPPINES NICARAGUA 1989 SAINT VICENT 1889 1911 1994 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 1921 YMCA NIGERIA YMCA CAMBODIA 1999 YMCA COSTA RICA 1975 1925 YMCA YMCA YMCA GUYANA 1882 YMCA SIERRA LEONE 1912 YMCA ETHIOPIA YMCA VIETNAM 1992 VENEZUELA SOUTH SUDAN YMCA PANAMA 1966 YMCA SURINAM 1972 1951 YMCA LIBERIA 1881 2014 YMCA YMCA YMCA SRILANKA 1882 YMCA MALAYSIA 1905 CAMEROON INDONESIA YMCA YMCA TOGO 1924 1928 COLOMBIA 1930 1963 YMCA GHANA YMCA KENYA 1910 YMCA ECUADOR 1947 1890 YMCA YMCA TANZANIA 1959 YMCA BRAZIL YMCA SINGAPORE 1902 PERU 1893 1920 YMCA YMCA ZAMBIA 1958 BOLIVIA 1943 YMCA FIJI YMCA MADAGASCAR 1971 YMCA ZIMBABWE 1924 1968 YMCA PARAGUAY 1921 YMCA CHILE YMCA AUSTRALIA 1912 1851 YMCA SOUTH AFRICA 1865 YMCA URUGUAY 1909 YMCA ARGENTINA 1902 NEW ZEALAND 1855 SECTION 1 ABOUT US The Worldwide YMCA Movement YMCA is one of the oldest and largest youth-focused movements in the world. Founded in 1844, it now operates in 120 countries and reaches 64 million people every year. YMCA associations are strongly rooted in their communities and oer a variety of programmes and services based on local priorities and issues aecting young people. World YMCA is committed to promoting empowerment, social justice and peace through four key areas - Health, Employment, Environment and Civic Engagement. These programme areas cover all 18 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and unite us in our mission to empower young people so that they may transform the world for the better. 1 | WORLD YMCA ANNUAL REPORT 2020 CONTENTS SECTION SECTION SECTION SECTION SECTION FOREWORD ABOUT US IMPACT 1 4 YMCA IN (INSERT NAME OF AREA ALLIANCE) IN (INSERT NUMBER OF COUNTRIES The worldwide YMCA Movement 2 3 PRESENT IN) COUNTRIES YMCA is one of the oldest and largest youth-focused movements in the world. Founded 2020 AT A GLANCE in 1844, it now operates in 120 countries and reaches 64 million people every year. YMCA Big 6 paper on eect of associations are strongly rooted in their communities and o¬er a variety of Leaders Talks Reimagine Labs Youth Voices online (mental health) COVID on young people programmes and services based on local priorities and issues a-ecting young people debate (wellbeing) Australia Launch of Global Youth Thanksgiving service Youth Led Solutions Mobilization for XXXXX Padare debates XXXXX and their communities. World YMCA is committed to promoting empowerment, social Community of Impact Advocacy call for urgent Summit (climate Generation Disrupted Advocacy call: gender with WHO, Big 6, UN launch: Employment & youth safety nets in - PARTICIPANTS IN justice and peace for young people and their communities through four key areas - equality, youth skills action) VOLUNTEERS Entrepreneurship, Executive Committee COVID Foundation Jr NBA training Advocacy call: mental Health, Employment, Environment and Civic Engagement. These programme areas Refugees & Migrants adopted COVID strategy: Movement COVID status Graduation of Cohort OUR ACTIVITIES Extraordinary Executive health, Advocacy call: climate Resilience, Recovery, update Nagorno-Karabakh #4, Change Agents cover all 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and unite us in our Reimagination Committee (online) COVID video: ‘A story of change World YMCA leaves Clos - - Deloitte Fundraising Executive Committee mission to empower young people so that they may transform the world for the better. End of Data Initiative Executive Committee Belmont, Geneva - (online) resilience and hope’ Pilot Phase (online) Report XXXX JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER STAFF MEMBERS National General Leaders Talks ‘Youth Voices’ online Resilience Padare sensemaking World Week of Prayer Secretaries meeting, COVID story-telling debate (racism) Playbook National General World YMCA arrives Bethlehem COVID Response Hub Thanksgiving service Padare debates Secretaries meeting Vernier, Geneva Big 6 highlight role of COVID storytelling Advocacy call: (online) XXXXX young people in COVID YMCA COVID Solidarity Belarus, Lebanon, Community of Impact YMCA COVID Solidarity Fund launched International launch: Mental Health, BENEFICIARIES REACHED THROUGH Fund launched World Challenge Youth Day Climate Action, Policy & XXXXX Advocacy call: racism, Advocacy OUR ACTIVITIES women Advocacy call: health YMCA funding LOCAL BRANCHES 1 | YMCA ANNUAL REPORT 2020 3 | YMCA ANNUAL REPORT 2020 5 | YMCA ANNUAL REPORT 2020 SECTION SECTION SECTION SECTION And yet the Movement responded: by the The Youth-Led Solutions Summit marks a major shift in how World YMCA empowers young end of March, the Executive Committee 8 STORIES people, by supporting their own initiatives to become solution providers. The vision is to PRESENCE COVID-19 had approved a three-part strategy to ACTIVITIES 7 take good local youth solutions, and bring them to scale. In 2021 World YMCA plans two 5 respond to the crisis: building resilience, 6 further online summits, on the topics of jobs and mental health. launching recovery, and initiating a process SAUL MORÁN, YMCA GUATEMALA The immediate response of reimagination. The global Coronavirus pandemic of Likewise the YMCA Movement faced PROGRAMMES GREENLAND The experience at the Youth-Led Solutions (DENMARK) SVALBARD (NORWAY) 2020 meant the worst of times but the upheaval as its business model – of face World YMCA initiated a dedicated summit was fantastic and unique. Having best of responses both for young people to face interaction – was turned on its “COVID-19 YMCA Response” hub on its YOUTH-LED SOLUTIONS SUMMIT an exchange of experience with other at large and the YMCA Movement in head. A survey coordinated between website to gather information about the 2020 saw the launch of a major new World YMCA development: the Youth Led Solutions Initiative. particular. April and September 2020 by YMCA work of the YMCAs and other partner cultures and other points of view has made YMCA ICELAND YMCA SWEDEN 1844 YMCA RUSSIA 1900 1899 YMCA YMCA POLAND 1923 me change my perception of climate YMCA NORWAY 1878 FINLAND Europe across 41 National Movements organisations during the pandemic. Others YMCA CANADA 1886 YMCA CZECH REPUBLIC 1920 Initially planned as a live event in San Francisco to coincide with the celebrations for the 75th YMCA SLOVAKIA 1920 1851 YMCA DENMARK1878 YMCA ESTONIA 1919 Young people faced school closures, picked up this work: in June for instance the change issues YMCA LATVIA 1923 and 75 local YMCAs in Europe, Asia anniversary of the United Nation and to mark YMCA’s role in that moment in 1945, COVID meant that YMCA NETHERLANDS 1851 YMCA LITHUANIA 1932 YMCA BELARUS 1994 YMCA MOLDOVA 1996 YMCA IRELAND 1849 mental health diculties, rising UN Youth Envoy, in highlighting the work YMCA HUNGARY 1883 Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean its first event – still organised with the extensive help of San Francisco YMCA and YMCA USA - was YMCA GERMANY YMCA BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 2011 YMCA ENGLAND AND WALES 1844 YMCA BELGIUM 1853 1848 YMCA UKRAINE YMCA MONGOLIA YMCA AUSTRIA 1996 1993 YMCA SERBIA 2008 2002 YMCA YMCA BULGARIA 1883 unemployment, and the stigma revealed income levels dramatically of 10 young people worldwide fighting YMCA SWITZERLAND 1852 held online from 12 to 23 October. FRANCE YMCA GEORGIA 1991 ROMANIA YMCA ARMENIA 1992 1851 YMCA USA surrounding their alleged involvement in down, programmes reduced, sta COVID-19, included examples from the YMCA YMCA KOREA 1888 YMCA PORTUGAL 1894 SPAIN YMCA ITALY YMCA JAPAN 1880 1851 1880 1851 YMCA CHINA YMCA LEBANON 1890 YMCA HONGKONG the spread of the virus. And yet the positions and salaries cut, and external YMCAs of Bangladesh, Kosovo and YMCA NEPAL 1990 1901 It focussed /on young people developing their own solutions to climate change, and 80 ‘Solution CYPRUS 1885 YMCA JERUSALEM INTERNATIONAL 1878 YMCA MACAU YMCA BANGLADESH 1965 1991 YMCA EAST JERUSALEM 1848 YMCA PAKISTAN YMCA MALTA 1976 YMCA JORDAN 1961 same young people stood up as first partnerships kept on hold. Scotland. YMCA MONTENEGRO 2011 1876 Teams’ comprising over 600 participants from