"If there is not even one door that you can knock on, you make your own door” (old Serbian saying)

I am Milica from Serbia and I am studying Journalism in Belgrade. I really love communicating and meeting all kinds of people (just as journalists do..) and so I really enjoy working for EICYAC. To get an in depth idea of some of the activities youth are involved in please feel free to view the article that I recently co -authored about Child and youth participation and trafficking. A condensed version of this article is also available in the ECPAT Youth Journal

Eastern Europe is a region where a lot of things change right now, but as far as combating CSEC issues are concerned, there’s still a lot that needs to be dealt with. Primarily raising awearnes since many people stil refuse to belive what is happening in their neighboorhood. It is also very important to work on prevention of child trafficking since many young people are not aware of what could happen if they travel uncarefuly. This is product of most of people did not have opportunity to leave their country for a long time.

I got in touch with ECPAT, because I had the opportunity to be youth delegate for a local NGO at the Yokohama Mid-Term Review in Ljubljana. Now that I am representative of EICYAC a lot of other exciting things followed. If you want to find out more about what has been going on in this region, click here.

I am really very enthusiastic about my job at EICYAC, because it give opportunity to make a difference and to show that even young you can do a lot. I enjou working with enthusiastic peers and that is what gives me the push to dedicate my spare time to this kid of problems. It is wonderful when you are part of group where no body has the same mother language but you can all understand each other perfectly since you are having the same aim.