Young Friends of the Earth Europe is a grassroots network of young people and youth organisations in Europe, who are also part of the Friends of the Earth International network. If you want to find out if there’s a group or active young people in your country, or how you can get involved, please get in touch!
This year’s summer camp took place in the little town of Ónod in north west Hungary, hosted by our Young FoE group in Hungary. 50 people from the YFoEE network came representing 20 different countries and spent five days together learning and sharing the campaigning work we all do, and getting some great ideas, plans and skills for the campaigns YFoEE will be running in the near future.
Being in Ónod this year was particularly special. It’s a village that over recent years has experienced devastating floods and increasingly hot summers, making the effects of climate change well known to the local community. We had the great pleasure to be hosted and looked after by the local community and in particular the local young people and local mayor, who joined many of our sessions and took part in a joint intercultural evening between YFoEE and Ónod. We hope to have struck up a long and lasting friendship between Friends of the Earth and Ónod!
We have produced photos and a movie from the summer camp, which gives you an impression of the activities we did, the people who came and the fun that we had!
Update: Push Europe campaign
By Leonie Tuitjer, BUNDjugend—YFoE Germany
One cent alone is not very much. But if thousands of cents are transferred to the account of your national treasury it becomes a powerful sign of protest. Each cent has to be properly managed and cannot just be ignored. That turns the account statement of your government into a long petition for a different climate policy.
Europe-wide young people demand that their government take responsibility for the coming generations. If we take action now we strengthen our economy in a meaningful way, create new jobs and save billions of euros in the future.
Young Friends of the Earth Europe, United Kingdom Youth Climate Coalition and BUNDjugend Germany started the “Push Europe” campaign to take action and lobby our politicians. Together we are connecting young people and organisations across Europe and form a strong Youth Climate Movement. We want the EU to invest into climate action instead of letting young people pay for the effects of global warming in 20 or 30 years.
Therefore we ask young people all around Europe to transfer 1 Cent to their national government. This is a sign for our concern about the effects and costs that we will endure in the future if we don’t agree on ambitious climate targets NOW. We consider this as a down payment into a sustainable low-carbon future.
Several countries participate in the campaign so far: UK, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, Austria, Slovakia, Poland, Denmark, Germany.
After only two weeks of campaigning in the Netherlands the Environmental minister twitted that he has already received 57 cents.
In Austria the Global 2000 group has planned a “media action” for the end of September when they will produce a giant earth ball and go an the streets asking people to glue their cents to its surface.
Take part in the Push Europe campaign. Transfer a cent, involve your friends, organise an action! Take your cent on a trip around the most important, recognisable or symbolic places, take a picture and then share the experience with everyone by posting it to your facebook profile as well as uploading it to the Push Europe wall.
One symbolic cent to show our politicians that we won’t wait till we have to pay for the consequences of climate change. One cent for a climate-friendly future.
Update: Steering Group and Working Groups
YFoEE Steering Group members met face to face at the end of September in Belgium for the first time since their election in March 2011. We had three intensive days of discussions on topics such as how we would organize the upcoming Durban in Brussels event and our training event in Denmark (see page 4), how we could improve the Steering Groups internal work and online meetings, as well as the next steps before the AGM in 2012 in Switzerland. Our meeting was very productive and we made a long list for further improvements and planning for YFoEE network making us stronger and hopefully increasing our visibility across Europe.
We stayed in a lovely Belgian working farm, and were kindly shown how the cows are milked using modern techniques. Also, we would like to say a big thank you to Andy Vermaut from FoE Flanders for his amazing help in helping to organize the meeting!
How YFoEE Working Groups are doing since March:
Climate Justice: Have been working on Push Europe campaign, planning Durban in Brussels activities and preparing for COP17 in Durban.
Food & Agriculture: So far, this team has worked on creating a Manifesto—the YFoEE network’s perspective on sustainable food and agriculture, as well as went attended the NYELENI forum (see report, page 5).
Communications: Have been working to get this and the previous newsletters editions published to share information about the YFoEE network. As well as this, we have been working on promoting Crabgrass, the still in development webpage and Facebook (check it www.facebook.com/YoungFoEE)
By Marika Fiedler, YFoE Germany, YFoEE Climate Justice Working Group
Youth Convergence on Climate Justice, Brussels, Belgium, –
Last year in December, during the 16th UN climate conference in Cancun, youth from all over Europe met during the two weeks in Brussels for the climate justice convergence Cancun in Brussels. We followed the negotiations, learnt and discussed about the different climate justice topics and we did actions in the city of Brussels to support our campaigners in Cancun.
This year we will meet again for one week in December, parallel to the UN climate negotiations in Durban. We want to bring at least 100 young European climate activists together in order to follow the negotiations as well as stay in regular contact with the climate campaigners in Durban and discuss the political developments. Join us in Brussels, as hundreds of Youth from all across Europe demand climate justice and real action from the UN Climate Talks in Durban!
So take your calendar, mark the date and take part in a great international climate justice movement! You will have the chance to learn about issues related to climate change and climate justice, build up closer contacts to other inspiring people and organizations, and you will be able to give your own workshops on topics you are working on and help creating a program which works best for you!
YFoEE Training on Campaign Effectiveness, Copenhagen, Denmark, –
We’re really excited to be for the first time running a special four-day training on how to plan and run effective and strategic campaigns, for a group of young activists from the YFoEE network. It will be taking place in Copenhagen hosted by our newest member group, YFoE Denmark.
The 15 places for participants are already full, but following feedback from the event we hope to run follow-up activities for you to get involved in 2012, and that as a result of the training the campaign working groups will be full of activities and exciting ways for you to get active with YFoEE campaigns in the coming months and in 2012. Keep a look out for more news about the training this year!
Summer Camp 2012
As Corcerizas, Galicia, Spain, July 2012
Every year Young FoEE organises the summer camp as our major annual event to get to know other young people from YFoE and FoE groups in Europe, learn about the issues and campaigns we work on, and share and build our skills. Next year we’re already excited to announce that it will be taking place at the As Corcerizas environmental education centre in Galicia, Spain.
We are now working with FoE Spain on the planning of this event and would love extra volunteers and your any ideas and input on the discussion of the theme and content of this event. Please email Sophie Manson if you think you’ve got ideas or would like to get involved.
YFoEE at International Events
UNFCCC Meeting, Bonn
By Susi Hammel
Push Europe CV action
In June, where else would YFoEE be than in Bonn? Since 2009, YFoEE activists have been attending the two week mid-year round of UNFCCC climate negotiations in Bonn, always in preparation for the big UN climate change conferences at the end of the year. In December 2011, this big meeting will take place in Durban, South Africa.
During the talks in Bonn, YFoEE was mainly putting pressure on the EU to raise its ambition in tackling climate change by strengthening its GHG emission reduction target and to show real leadership in the international climate negotiations in line with our Push Europe campaign (see article about Push Europe, page 3).
We organised two colourful actions. One of them featured 27 young people representing each EU Member State queuing in front of an EU official’s desk presenting their CVs asking for more opportunities for green jobs (a study of the Potsdam Institute has shown that a 30% EU emission reduction target could create 6 million additional jobs in Europe).
The other action was a spoof street party in front of the UNFCCC conference venue (see Climate Justice Seminar article, page 9).
YFoEE also co-organised a side event with BUNDjugend (YFoE Germany) and the UK Youth Climate Coalition (UKYCC) under the title “Moving the EU - Moving the World: youth led campaigns for climate justice” to discuss the EU’s responsibility and how to pressure the EU to show more ambition in tackling climate change by raising its emission reduction target.
Two YFoEE activists were interviewed by FoE International’s Real World Radio. They talked about the role of young people in the UNFCCC negotiations and their demands to political decision makers. They also spoke about the Push Europe campaign.
Following the Bonn meeting, YFoEE is now getting ready for our activities around the UN climate talks in Durban and we are busy organising our “Durban in Brussels” youth convergence (see article about Durban in Brussels, page 4).
Nyeleni Forum
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By Mario la Rosa, Italy
“Nyeleni” is the name of a woman who showed how farming with respect for the land and the traditions can be a way to get out of poverty and modern slavery. With her job she found freedom for her family and inspired her whole village. “Food sovereignty” is the idea that people should be free to choose what they are going to grow as farmers and to eat as consumers. Following the iconic example of Nyeleni, in August more than 400 people from Europe met in Krems, Austria, to share experiences, teach and learn stories, build links and create the platform for an European movement for Food Sovereignty. Farmers, consumers, workers and NGOs coming from different places but (amazing!), all with the same thought that sustainability in agriculture and food consumption are keys for changing the World, starting from the Land. YFoEE was also present at Nyeleni with activists from Norway, Hungary, Lithuania and Italy. Food Sovereignty NOW!
It’s the most difficult language we use, when we try to describe our thoughts and feelings after what happened on July 22nd. It’s helpful to borrow wise words from others, such as Norwegian poet Nordahl Grieg who during the Second World War wrote: “We are so few in this country, every fallen one is a brother and a friend.” We are still few in this country. Even fewer in the youth political community in Norway, be it in Oslo or in towns and cities around the country. Many of us in YFoE Norway had a brother or a friend at Utøya. In the end, there is so much more that unites than divides the youth political community. We all put the highest value possible on debate, commitment and a vibrant democracy.
The brutal attacks on the Labour Party Youth at Utøya and the government offices in Oslo were an attack on all of us, and on the lifeblood of our democracy. What can one do in the face of such twisted and absolute evil? The Labour Party Youth themselves gave the best answer: “If one man can show so much hate, imagine how much love we as a togetherness can show.” On the very same day as the fateful attacks, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg firmly stated that our response to terror will be “more democracy, more openness and more humanity”. This is how we will retaliate, and show the terrorist that he has lost.
It’s difficult to say whether Norwegian political life will ever be the same again. Right now, we are in the middle of municipal elections, and an ordinary political debate in which differences are discussed, is slowly returning. But all those who experienced the tragedy on July 22nd have shared a unique experience that will never be forgotten. Paradoxically, it is faced with the most gruesome of events that society mobilizes our very best of unity, solidarity and compassion. On July 25th, hundreds of thousands of Norwegians from all over the country marched, meeting terror with roses and love. After this, our democracy can seem safer than ever. But the work for democracy and justice will and must continue every day.
We are prepared to do our part. YFoE Norway will continue to be YFoE Norway. Yet we are suddenly all the more aware of the magnitude of the work we do. When we work to cut Norwegian greenhouse gas emissions, we do it in solidarity with the world’s poorest and with future generations. But perhaps equally important: through our work, every single day, we contribute to the defence of a vibrant democracy. Never before has our commitment and our work been more important. Never before has it been more important that we continue to get more youth involved, in Norway, in Europe, and the rest of the world. I strongly believe that the best days of youth political organizations and of Young Friends of the Earth are still ahead.
UK: Push Europe Action Camp
By Marco Cadena from YFoE England, Wales & Northern Ireland (EWNI) and YFoEE Steering Group
When you see the lush green rolling hills of the English countryside, hear the river right next to you and meet the inspiring people from all across the country—you know that you’re in the right place: the Push Europe UK camp.
We at Young Friends of the Earth joined forces in the UK and decided to put on a camp in mid-August at Ogden Moor wind farm. Action camp helped us to build capacity and supports the Europe-wide campaign for climate action by the EU.
We consciously planned the activities around the campaign but we had also time to talk about the network in the UK and to come up with some great ideas for the future.
Although we generated some local media interest with our press release, our aim was to support the other groups working on Push Europe with stunning images—so the project was really for activists by activists.
We’ve also discussed upcoming campaign actions – so we have now an online action running on FoE Scotland’s website and hopefully we’ll have one on FOE EWNI’s website as well soon.
Our next big focus is the Friends of the Earth conference here in the UK – where we’ll get together with UKYCC and YoungFoE from all over the place and plan together for the autumn (also see how to join the Push Europe campaign).
So watch this space, there is more to come!
Email Marco Cadena to sign up for the latest news and follow the campaign.
—Great success for the first open day of the groups Youth & Nature Pro Natura.
Pro Natura Youth manages 44 groups Youth & Nature strewn in the whole of Switzerland. Lead by voluntary counsellors, these local groups offer thematic outings in nature and camps for young adults and children. On the , the first open day across Switzerland took place: 24 groups from 15 Swiss counties participated in this event set under the topic forest.
The open days were very popular since several groups had more participants than usual. Group leaders’ goals and motivation were clear: by strolling along forest paths, children learn to respect this silvicultural world.
However education was not the only goal of this day in the forest; pleasure and delight also took up a choice place. What did participants prefer?
“Games in the forest and the building of huts!”
“To uproot brambles around the small oaks so that they can have enough light to grow”
“When the lumberjack cut down a tree… even if I was a little scared when it fell down!”
Thanks to games, experts’ lectures, tales and legends, marshmallows on the grill and animals watching, kids could let off steam in nature and thus LIVE THE NATURE.
Latvia: Greening the Playground
By Zane Ruģēna-Bojāre, YFoE Latvia
A couple of years ago, as recently shown by Wikileaks, the Latvian government was carrying on with business as usual—civil servants were regular suspects in the USA embassy promising pro-GMO votes in Parliament.
Within a couple of years the playing-field was changing rapidly. And it coincided with FoE Latvia putting GMO issues at the top of campaigning work since 2009.
What has changed since then?
Municipalities free to establish GM bans
With plenty of participation and lobbying from civil society groups with FoE Latvia as flagman, new, groundbreaking GMO Circulation Law was passed by national government in the second half of 2009. The Law established rights of municipalities to ban GM cultivation in their territories.
In 2010 the process of establishing GM Free zones took miraculous pace with FoE organising and involving hundreds of grassroots activities and events all around Latvia, explaining the importance of the initiative and mobilising the citizens to promote the GM Free Zone idea in their municipalities. As a result today almost all municipalities have announced GM Free zone status.
GMO labelled products identified in shops
According to the new national regulations, shops must label GM products so that they are easily identified.
With regards to the implementation of this regulation there are many things yet to be done. Unfortunately, the regulation was contested by large supermarket chains.
Nevertheless FoE Latvia have been behind the efforts to establish this initiative in the law and since then made number of inventories of status quo in implementation of the Law and exposed gaps and defficiences in its application.
In the spring of 2010 FoE Latvia laid another milestone in GMO campaigning – we established a voluntary scheme for businesses and institutions that are willing to exclude GMO’s from use in their products. Among the partners that joined to help to develop the scheme are very well known organisations and institutions Ministry of Environment and Regional Development, Latvian Hotel & Restaurant Association and the Latvian Biological Agriculture Association. In the first year we have also gathered a wide range of participants, including celebrity chefs, high-end dining places, breweries, kindergardens, shops, etc.
Parliament stands steady against GMO lobby
With active participation in the official working groups, successful media work, proactive networking with other organisations and direct information activities FoE Latvia manages to ensure that the GMO debate within Latvia leads to a clear stance in EU voting.
With heated debates in 2010 in the Latvian Parliament, the national position in the meetings of the European Council is negative both to cultivation and market distribution voting. FoE Latvia have managed also to reverse a number of votes and positions in matters linked to GMO issues, i.e. the zero tolerance issue, where the Ministry of Agriculture were actively supporting opinion of European Commission, but responsible Parliamentary committee in series of repeated votes gave preference to the views of NGOs—Friends of the Earth Latvia and Biological Farming association.
YFoE Scotland: Joining Push Europe
By Paul Daly & Natascha Deininger, YFoE Scotland
Over the summer, Young FoE Scotland has been working hard to spread the word by attending many festivals to do outreach, and when back in the office to produce the Scottish version of the Push Europe Campaign. This is particularly significant for us as it is the first campaign that YFoE Scotland has produced!
We have produced a step-by-step guide to transferring One Penny to the UK Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) which is included in the Cyber Action we created. This allows activists to email to explain why they are donating One Penny. See some of our work here.
We are heavily promoting the One Penny campaign via our Facebook page and Twitter account—and getting some much appreciated support from the FoE Scotland and other strategic partners. Recently activists from Young FoE Scotland joined with Young FoE England, Wales & Northern Ireland in Yorkshire for a weekend of campaign planning and banner making – and ended up at a photo shoot on a wind farm (also see the story from UK, page 7).
Arriving on Friday night, people pitched their tents next to a river in a quiet valley not far from Hebden Bridge, getting up the next day to discuss Push Europe—a campaign aimed at bringing young activists across the continent together to demand the EU commit to ambitious greenhouse gas reductions targets. Issues around climate justice, the Kyoto Protocol and EU policy were explained, talked about and discussed. On Sunday activists hiked out to a nearby wind farm, carrying banners and getting ready to do some turbine-hugging. The result: excellent evidence of young people getting excited about a low-carbon future (see details on how to join the campaign).
“Come to the party this December in Durban where the EU will commit to 40% emission reductions domestically by 2020.”
In this manner, activists tried to discuss with the UN delegates in front of the UNFCCC climate talks in Bonn. With music, singing, dancing and a “40-percent” cake, young people celebrated the announcement of the EU’s critical pledge of 40% domestic GHG emission reductions by 2020.
The spoof pre-party was made up by the 40 participants of the international seminar “Climate Justice—More than Words” which took place from to close to Bonn, Germany, in parallel to the UN climate talks in Bonn. The aim of this event was youth capacity-building, training, networking and education on climate justice issues.
Besides direct action the seminar had a programme full of interesting speakers and interactive workshops, for example, on the history of the UNFCCC process and EU climate policy as well as on the equitable sharing of remaining carbon budgets or real solutions for the climate crisis. Participants also exchanged their knowledge on national climate change and energy policies, trained themselves in organising effective campaigns and shared plans for youth activism in 2011, including the Push Europe campaign. Due to the nearby negotiations in Bonn, we also had the chance to meet delegates from the Global South at the seminar; and it was inspiring to think about and discuss the concept of climate justice with them and to hear testimonies from those most affected by climate change.
By Laura Grainger, Australia, member of YFoEE Steering Group 2009–2010
My name’s Laura and I’m currently living in a treehouse I built, 17m high in a pine tree. Along with a small group of other wonderfully passionate people, we are occupying the forest which is the site of a future airport near Notre-Dame-des-Landes, France.
We are building a campaign to stop the Grand Ouest airport—along with its highway, TGV train line and metropolis expansion. It’s being green-washed as an “ecological” project, and like so many massive constructions, it’s being undemocratically bulldozed into people’s lives. Vinci, the world’s biggest construction company has been handed the project on a ready-prepared platter. But there’s more than a hundred organizations banded together now to say no to the unnecessary and destructive expansion of the concrete jungle, and for two years now there’s been an occupation of the site of the airport.
Both the proponents and opponents of the project call this place “La ZAD”. It’s been continuously growing and now there’s over a hundred occupying more than 20 spots on the site at all times.
So I find myself in a forest—a beautiful forest—constructing defences against any eviction, growing vegetables in a field, having meetings and organising demonstrations, occupations, awareness-raising propaganda for this fight and others around the continent, such as the Khimki struggle in Russia. These projects are just too crazy to happen in a world with climate change, peak oil and social injustice happening left, right and centre.
We are growing a lot of our own food here, we dumpster-dive a lot of our food too, cycling and walking are our main ways of getting around, we recycle building materials for our own constructions, there are skillshares happening daily, workshops and freeshops and anything that someone has energy for is created… in fact, a whole little post-capitalist anarchist community has sprung up! Links with the other campaigning groups have never been so strong, and even though eviction is likely within the next month, I’d still say it’s going well!
I’ve increasingly become a full-time campaigner, activist, dreamer, whatever you call it, since I first got involved with YFoEE. It’s partly thanks to the energy of the group I was a part of in Germany in June 2009 really switched on my radical-button. Increasingly I’ve become aware and experienced in the way that we can put all our energy into changing things to the way we really want them to be.
Even if I’m 5000km away from you, I want to wish you good luck with your local campaigns! I’m in solidarity with the issues you work on—it’s all interlinking. And of course, you’re very welcome to come and visit us here at la ZAD, do a local action or to join our struggle here.
Community Supported Agriculture
“What do you feel when you buy food?” was what Mario la Rosa (29), from Sicily, Italy, asked me. I have known him for several years and I am still impressed by his devotion to the topic of F&A in his everyday life and the changes he creates by his work every day. He opened my eyes that buying a car and food is not the same and I started to wonder where my food comes from and what values I support when I buy it.
Mario graduated in food biology at university and works as a food manager. He is deeply concerned about Food and Agriculture (F&A) issues and is an active member in YFoEE F&A Working Group. Recently he went to the NYELENI food sovereignty forum in Austria and is working on the F&A Manifesto.
What obstacles do you see in F&A nowadays?
capitalism, which concentrates only on profit and brainwashes people saying the most important thing is to possess;
absence of direct relationship between producer and consumer, which stimulates mistrust and loss of knowledge in farming;
food distribution intermediaries, which make food prices inadequate;
large-scale monocultures, which abuse the soil, require widespread use of fertilisers and force loss of biodiversity;
globalisation, which makes the food travel around the world and accumulates hidden costs;
unsustainable agriculture, which adds to environmental problems.
Following on, how would you describe sustainability?
Sustainability is an inner consciousness that something is wrong or right when you think about consequences that your actions might have. Sustainable thinking is thinking that what you are doing now will have an impact in the future. Sustainability is when you respect land, people and yourself. So if you are feeding a system which is not sustainable, then we need to take a step back.
Are there solutions for more sustainable F&A?
Yes, the only way—thinking out of the box! Community supported agriculture (CSA) is an alternative to the conventional market. In the CSA system every person gets involved in all the steps of consumption. CSA eliminates retailers and supermarkets from the food chain which makes the price fair, creates a direct connection and builds trust. In a long-term perspective, CSA intends to wash a sense of greedy.
How does CSA work?
I am in one consortium of 15 farmers in Sicily that sell organic oranges, jams, almonds, and fish. I joined it three years ago though it was established 15 years ago. The consortium manages finances, logistics and promotion in collaboration. The consortium aims to sell good products and its main value is the people it deals with and what we grow. Most importantly I would say: The consortium is not only selling sustainable products but also a message and promotes the principal values of trust and sharing.
Some might say that this system is expensive but on the contrary, the prices are the same as in a market. Every group has its own way of working, but the main common characteristics in CSA groups are food and connection: organic products, direct contact with a farmer and getting rid of intermediaries. Despite obstacles with bureaucracy and labelling standards, the number of groups around Italy is growing fast.
What changes does CSA make?
Fortunately, this system is building trust which has disappeared due to big food supply chains. In CSA trust is built by hand shaking as we call. A person can visit a farm and a farmer, see how the he grows the food and also who is a farmer. This system is growing very fast in Italy. Now there are 115 small groups of CSA I the network. Together they organize meetings, forums, food stands; people collaborate and do voluntary work together. One such group managed to develop to solar panels organization, some of them are thinking of schools and kindergartens. In such network the price does not have a big matter, people are aware of sustainability. Moreover, they become active and propose things to change. The future of these groups is to have a wider market in collaborating and involve more devoted people.
Young FoEE network members
Get to know us better!
She is young, responsible and a friend of the Earth. I met her at YFoEE Summer Camp 2011 in Hungary where she was helping the FoE Hungary team to organise the summer camp. Besides her wonderful help, she created an amazing movie of the summer camp in Ónod! (find it at: http://www.foeeurope.org/youngfoee/summercamp2011.html)
This time get to know … Zsuzsa Foldes (age 23), FoE Hungary
Education: Conservation engineering, St. Stephen University, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary
Where do you live? Szolnok (100km from Budapest on the east side and next to the Tisza which is the second biggest river in the country)
Your core topic in environmental field: Environmental and social justice
One amazing thing you have done: I’ve lived with about 40 different people from all over the world during 8 months I’ve spent in London
Your belief or motto: Just do what you are interested in, you are not crazy.
What are the main activities of YFoE Hungary, and how does the organisation/group work?
Friends of the Earth Hungary hasn’t got a Youth organisation but young volunteers can join us who are willing to work for environmental protection. We help with campaigns, actions and the general work of the organisation, and have regular actions, not just in Budapest but in the countryside as well. The young volunteers have the opportunity to take part in festivals, lectures, panel discussions and conferences. We have a Volunteer Club and this year organising the YFoEE summer camp provided a great opportunity to meet and get to know each other better.
How did you get involved in this organization and what is your role?
I participated in some actions such as Sustainability Day and Car-Free Day and then I had a 3½-month internship with FoE Hungary, so I worked in the office and gained lots of experience. Nowadays I do some translating work and I also started to write my thesis about YFoEE! Actually I just decided to use this topic after the summer camp.
What was the biggest success for you since you started?
I think the best thing is that I’ve met lots of people who are working all around the country and also they helped me to understand how I can put into use what I learned at university.
How did you get involved with YFoE Europe?
This July with the summer camp was the first time I got in touch with YFoE Europe as I helped with organisation. Although it was a little bit tiring, it gave me loads of motivation as well; so I definitely want to continue the work.
Has working in YFoE Europe network changed you personally?
Meeting these inspiring people has reassured me that I am not alone and this is a wonderful feeling. It made me more confident.
Something to tell to young people from the network…?
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