Village Travel Bot, an innovative Telegram bot about Moldova’s countryside developed with the European Union’s funding, has launched a strategic collaboration with the Customs Service of the Republic of Moldova to promote rural tourism. As part of this initiative, the first Village Travel Bot promotional banner was installed at the Leușeni border crossing on 19
‘I hope that one day, women in Armenia will not have to choose between family and work, proper childcare or sufficient income.’ This ‘hope’ has been the driving force for Astghik Karapetyan, an EaP Civil Society Fellow and co-founder and president of Point 33 NGO. Astghik sees that the workplace culture in Armenia, like in
For Diana Daiub, co-founder and director of Support Ukraine Now, the Russian invasion of Ukraine wasn’t just a national crisis—it was deeply personal. As a long-time advocate for civil society, she knew that Ukraine’s civil society organisations (CSOs) would play a vital role in supporting those most affected by the war. But there was a
Ketevan Tvildiani’s first degree was in English language and literature, but her interest in understanding the concept of social justice and the everyday life of people in her community drove her to take a Masters course at Batumi University in Sociology. The Masters course developed her skills for undertaking social research and included a sojourn
Nino Chincharauli never really expected to be a Civil Society Fellow. She spent most of her adult life involved in the creative industries and contributing to the cultural fabric of Georgia and other countries. Her creativity has manifested itself in paintings, iconography, in poems, and in fictional literature, as well as using her Spanish language
As a student, Rostyslav Semka got his first taste of international volunteerism in a summer camp in Istanbul under the ‘Myself My World’ project. The experience was a game-changer: “I was really impressed about the empowerment that came from volunteering”. The camp also taught Rostyslav about the Sustainable Development Goals and on his return to
“Civic activism is an opportunity to give back to society, something you often cannot fully do in your professional work”, says Vitalii Razik, 2021 EaP Civil Society Fellow from Lviv, Ukraine, who has been combining a successful legal practice with civic work for the past 23 years. Civic activism for Vitalii started when he and
In parallel with academic studies, with a MA in Social Work and a nearly completed Doctorate in Sociology, Gohar Khachatryan has charted her civic activism through a range of CSOs and Thinktanks in her native Armenia since 2016. She grew up in a provincial town and through voluntary work with a local CSO began to
The town of Irpin to the west of Kyiv became one of its outposts during the Kyiv offensive by the Russian army, where heavy fighting took place from the 24th of February 2022. The 65,000-people town was partly occupied, and the aggressor heavily damaged the entire town. But Irpin is now famous for another reason
