The first training course of “Alternative B: Green action for change”, took place in Gørding, Denmark in the second week of March. During the course young people from across Europe came together to create business plans for their future social enterprises. To share more about the project we invited Kasia, one of the participants in …
CB has interviewed Hakar Ghanem Elias, a student at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS), a refugee who is also working for NGOs Mohammed: Can you tell us more about your experience with NGOs? I speak English, my Kurdish is good and I speak Arabic, so the first time refugees came, I applied to work with an NGO, …
“I like the idea of migration in general because I myself do not like to settle down in one place. I like to be on the move and see new places,” the young Nicolai Thomsan, a student at Krogerup High school, said when asked about immigration. “There are a lot of problems about immigration in …
Given to her significant presence in the field of empowering young people in Africa, Aya Chebbi, the Tunisian founder of the African Youth Movement (AYM), has been invited to the UN annual Commission on the Status of Women in March 2015. The award-winning activist has started to blog on the Tunisian revolution in 2011 to …
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By Omeed Aminian Sami Mustafa and I became acquainted in 2010, while I was volunteer teaching youth in his hometown, Plemetina, Kosovo. During my stay there I met many amazing Roma activists as well as everyday folk, but Sami’s work stood out. While I could help the locals learn English, Sami taught them something else: …
By Omeed Aminian In September, I met with Antonio Vilchez, a colleague in education and a young, enterprising Andalusian. When he told me that he had created a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), I became interested in chatting with him. A repeat Erasmus student in Eastern Europe, Antonio’s experiences abroad inspired him. In the following interview, conducted in …
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We work for a fairer and more sustainable world. We do that by empowering young people around the world to take leadership for a positive change socially, economically, and politically.
