Stara Zagora, December 17, 2018
Students, trained by BFPA in peer education, made a memorable presentation for their schoolmates and teachers on the topic of human trafficking. Alex Stefanova, Mitko Draganov, Yulia Sabandjieva and Rumen Balashov from the Romain Rolland Foreign Language High School in Stara Zagora demonstrated their good presentational skills in front of an audience of tenth-graders and impressed with their enthusiasm to share knowledge on socially significant topics, and namely - on topics concerning the health and well-being of young people. The young BFPA volunteers managed to lay out the types of potential threats that may cause involvement in trafficking for sexual exploitation and also to discuss how a person might fall in the trap through emotional attachment, which are the signs that an ad could be fake and may lead to labour exploitation; why people should be alert, and about the attention they should pay when communicating and sharing online.
Their presentation caused a huge interest and had a big impact and as a consequence they were invited in Radio Stara Zagora’s youth radio show “Fire on air” on December 16th. On air they shared a lot of interesting things about the training they have undergone at BFPA in Sofia, about the incredible “teachers” they had there and who, in an understandable and interactive way passed on the knowledge that they are now sharing with their peers and also the presentational skills they were taught. The young educators shared their feelings and impressions after finding out from the feedback from their schoolmates that this is an important topic for them about which little is known. And again they presented on air the main accents of protection from trafficking. That way their message reaches a wider audience, when shared on air. Their mentor, support and source of encouragement is Assoc. Prof. Boryana Parashkevova from the Medical faculty of the Trakia university who is also BFPA’s coordinator in Stara Zagora.
