BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
16/02/2009
Belarus' representatives have trainings at Y-PEER International Centre, Bulgaria
Activists from Belarusian public organizations are having training courses at the Y-PEER International Centre in Bulgaria, BelTA learnt from Olga Belorusova, PR-manager of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), BelTA reported.
Selected fellows will be working at the Y-PEER International Center for Peer Education Training and Research in Sofia, Bulgaria
The Y-PEER International Centre at the Bulgarian national centre for public health is a Y-PEER Network Coordination Centre. The Y-PEER, or Youth Peer Education Network, is a groundbreaking, comprehensive youth-to-youth peer education initiative pioneered by UNFPA. Y-PEER is a network of organizations and institutions consisting of thousands of young people working in the areas of adolescent sexual and reproductive health. In Belarus, the Y-PEER Network unites public organizations that deal with peer education.
Today the International Centre currently employs seven activists from Romania, Kazakhstan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Tunisia, Uzbekistan and Belarus (Yulya Stankevich, board member and volunteer from the Fialta organization). They analyse, coordinate and support all Y-PEER Network members, organize and hold trainings, promote the Network at international conferences. By the way, these seven people were chosen from 23 representatives of 15 European and Asian countries that applied for participation.
Source:
http://news-en.trend.az/cis/belarus/1425458.html
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