IYNF at COMEM (April 2018)
Report of Council of Members of the European Youth Forum By Zoltán Lehoczki From 26th to 29th April we spent three days in Brussels in the Council of Members of the European Youth Forum. The opening day after...
European Youth Event 2018
Report of European Youth Event, 1-2 June, Strasbourg (France) By Milan Maushart When I arrived in the Naturefriends house of Strasbourg in the evening of Thursday 31st of May, I didn’t know what to expect from the European...
#WithRefugees
Every year on the 20th of June the World Refugee Day shall remind on the situation of refugees worldwide. The values of IYNF are strongly connected to claim for more human rights in the actions of governments, political organizations...
Dalal ak Jàmm ci Sénégal! – Welcome to Senegal!
By Janinka Lutze (NFJD) & Youssoupha Traore (Young Naturefriends Senegal) In September 2017, a group of Young Naturefriends from Senegal travelled to Germany for a two-week exchange hosted by the German Young Naturefriends. The meeting was organized under the...
The Magic of Togetherness
Reflexion of ‘Start with yourself’, 8-13th May, Cecina (Italy) By Miriam Candelas, EVS volunteer In a period where democracy is the more and more questioned and in risk with the increasing of extreme right-wing movements across Europe, IYNF...
Choose the future of IYNF!
Dear friends, dear Naturefriends, We would like to invite you to the IYNF General Assembly that will be organized on 12th May 2018 in a lovely Naturefriends house in Cecina, Italy, hosted by our Italian Member Organization GIAN-GIO. GENERAL...
Working with Migrants and Refugees – Guidelines, Tools and Methods
‘Working with Migrants and Refugees – Guidelines, Tools and Methods’ is the outcome of the of the three events of the IYNF’s year of “Border-Free Solidarity”. During the second seminar “Be Border-free” in Frankfurt, Germany the met and interacted...
Position Paper on the current refugee situation
Background From 14 to 19 November 2017, a group of 31 young adults from 16 European countries came together in Heerlen, Netherlands, for the conference “Raise Your Voice”. It was organised by International Young Naturefriends (IYNF), a network...
“Borderfree, like nature”
Gian-giò is the young Italian Naturefriends group founded in 2013. The topic of their third national meeting, entitled “Borderless, like nature”, was chosen based on the experience of some of the Gian-giò members with IYNF’s topic of the year...
Eco-Ration: Ecological inspiration
Live With Earth Last week, I was lucky to meet a very inspiring person, Rui Pessoa Vasques, and to get to know more about his vision, his work, and his organization, called “Live with Earth” During our meeting,...