Sasha
UK
Period: 2019, 4 months
Annaïs
ES
Period: September 2019- June 2020, 10 months
I’m Sasha, I was born and raised in the beautiful county of Derbyshire in a small town close to the Peak District National Park. I moved to a nearby city, Sheffield, when I was 18 to study Environmental Science. My passion for my degree led me in to environmental and social activism both nationally and internationally. I have been lucky enough to volunteer in Nicaragua, Germany, Georgia, the USA and Lithuania.
Now I’m in Prague in the YEE office as an ESC volunteer. Knowing that I can connect both of my environmental and social passions to empower youth to make change in our environment is a great way to not only help others, but enable my own personal growth. It is within my instilled value to work with a positive purpose with my morals at the heart of what I do. I’ve worked many positions during my studies such as being a Pharmacy Assistant to a Retail Assistant and working at McDonalds, and whilst these positions earned me a living, they did not enrich any motivations that I have now. Since my first ‘big girl’ position at an Environmental Charity in London, I have realised that the Charity sector is for me.
I am eager to learn how an NGO works and maybe in the future create my own!
Sasha
I am Annaïs and I come from the beautiful North of Spain. I have always been a curious and adventurous girl who has a deep passion for Nature and outdoors. When I was 18, I moved to Ireland and England for 2 years and also backpacked around Europe.
These experiences abroad were so powerful and inspiring to me that were also the key to knowing what I wanted to do next. That is why I studied tourism and become a guide and an environmental educator and interpreter. In addition, I joined the Spanish Red Cross as a volunteer getting involved in Environmental projects, as well as Erasmus Plus youth exchanges and trainings.
Throughout that time, I was always looking for real experiences, getting to know the local people, their culture and traditions, going hiking and taking my time to explore the place. This helped me to understand, to learn, to know who I am (who we are) and to see clearly that we all belong to the same planet and that it is everybody’s duty to protect it too. I always try to help as much as I can and I strongly believe that if you do good, life will bring good back to you somehow. For this reason, I am very fortunate and grateful to be able to join the YEE Team here in Prague!
Annaïs
Tasha
RS
Period: Ocotber 2019 – June 2020, 9 months
Zdravo! I am Tasha and I come from Serbia. As a big lover of nature, I have always been aware of the importance of its protection. That’s why I chose to study Landscape Architecture and did master’s degree in Landscape Management and Nature Protection. Volunteering with the environmental NGO from Serbia has taught me that young people can make a change if we unite and work together. That experience led me to YEE, where I met a lot of like-minded young people from all over Europe, who are motivated to work for creating more environmentally-respectful world. I was lucky enough to become a part of the YEE Board in 2018/2019, and now as ESC volunteer for the next nine months starting from October, I want to continue work with YEE, but this time in a more dedicated way.
Tasha
YEE aims to unite environmental youth non-profit organisations in Europe in order to enhance international cooperation, increase knowledge about the climate crisis, raise awareness of environmental problems and to strengthen participation of youth in environmental decision-making.
