Marco Negretto from Italy has taken part in a 3 months internship programme in IYNF. See below what are his impressions from this time:

I would like to thank IYNF and all the people there for providing me with such a fantastic opportunity. I spent a great time during the 3-months internship for my Leonardo project at the IYNF office in Prague.

It was my first experience of working for an NGO and partially led me to understand how it is. I am glad that I could carry out my traineeship within an association that operates in my field of studies but in a way that I never tried before.

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Even if my internship did not last a long of time, I really appreciated the opportunity I have been given of working on my own project which was beyond usual IYNF activities. In fact, I showed my interest in doing something practical for the environmental activities and proposed to develop and teach a didactic workshop. Finally, I realized my project by developing two workshops for children about waste recycling. Then, I proposed them to some of the international primary schools in Praguereceiving, then, some positive answers. At the end, I could teach both of the two workshops to two different schools. I succeeded even if it was the first time I have developed and taught just by myself a didactic workshop in English; though I did not do it just by myself but all the people, more or less, at IYNF helped me and, of course, I could not do it without the IYNF support.

Moreover, I also had the possibility to gain a more deep understanding of the activities organized by IYNF. I joined the “Youth encountering environmental human rights” study session in Budapest and I had a great time experiencing for the first time non-traditional education, meeting and listening to many interesting people coming from different countries and spending such a good time in a city I have not been to before.

At last, I would like to say that it was really nice to work with all the Naturefriends colleagues in such a friendly environment as it is in the IYNF office.