Cultural initiative

Alexia Papantchev is in her first stages of her activity as a volunteer with Inizjamed through the European Voluntary Service action funded by the Youth programme of the EU. Alexia, who is from Normandy in France, is working within the Creative Sustainability project run by Inizjamed, a Mediterranean development NGO based in Malta. She replaced Chiara Perucca and will stay in Malta for 10 months:

"I am here," says Alexia, "to live with the local population, to share in their daily life, to enrich myself with a culture other than mine and to merge into the cultural diversity of Malta. The EVS programme has given me the opportunity to put my knowledge at the service of a cultural initiative and to benefit from a unique experience.”

In Normandy, Alexia has trained and worked mainly in the field of theatre and she has been involved in the coordination theatre workshops and other projects with various groups, including underprivileged people. In Malta she will also be working closely with the Third World Group and Koperattiva Kummerċ Ġust, two partners of Inizjamed in the Forum for Justice and Cooperation.

The Creative Sustainability project aims to promote cultural sustainability in Malta and in the Mediterranean and the ethical, educational and cultural richness of fair trade by designing and running concrete projects that are carried out in Malta among young people from various social and educational backgrounds and with the active participation of Refugees and asylum seekers, especially the young adults among them.

The Youth Programme of the EU - Malta

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