Hello! My name is Iryna, and I am a representative of Belarus and BelAU (UNESCO Belarus) here, in Stockholm. I am 27 and for me it's the second experience living abroad, thus, I've never lived in a country with a language, different of the official ones of my home country.
According to my education and first job experiences, I am an advertising manager, thus in 2013 I moved to Saint-Petersburg and started a project manager career, and in 2014 returned to Belarus to try to become some kind of social entrepreneur (I mean organizer of non-profit projects) and at the same time registered myself as a craftswoman and began to make accessories of beads or other materials. Abroad I recognized myself a Belarusian - representative of a certain country, nation and culture. And that inspired me to try to do something on my own to help Belarus in improving spheres of life, that are familiar to me, and where I can apply my knowledge and skills.
EVS Sweden Program became for me like a real breath of the international air, and especially I liked the sending and inviting organizations, BelAU and Föreningen Framtidståget, because I feel the views and values of these organizations very close to my own. I think, the participation in the Program will help me to improve my project management skills, especially what concerns organizing and evaluating social projects, at the same time to get acquainted with different cultures, views, really international methods. In my opinion, it's also a great chance to understand the image of Belarus in the world and to finding the ways for improving it.
So, let the journey begins. :)
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