First Day at Work

Empowering Young Migrants to Take Part of the EU's Erasmus Plus Programme

On May 11th, the day after I landed in Sofia, with my team we organized an info session for teenagers in a Palestinian School in Sofia, Bulgaria. We shared with the 11th and 12th grade students the opportunities that the European Union’s Erasmus Plus Programme offer. We shared about the volunteering opportunities, exchanges and trainings that are fully funded by the Programme and all the students are encouraged to take part. Additionally, we shared opportunities for the students to become volunteers with International Foundation for Y-PEER, the NGO that I am interning with this summer.

We also shared information about anti-rumor, and refugees and immigrant's situation in the country. We facilitated an activity in which we invited them to reflect on their experience and ways they could help newly arrived young migrants and refugees.

The students showed great interest in the refugee and migrant related topics and we provided a space for them to share some of their thoughts and feelings as young immigrants living and studying in Bulgaria.