Yulia Movenko

Mentee 2026

Impact: An NGO for young people from small Ukrainian towns: meetings, workshops and mentoring sessions on education, volunteering, leadership, careers, English and starting their own initiatives, so they see opportunities to grow in their own communities.

Volunteer work:

• Facilitating a girls' club on youth support, self-confidence and countering gender-based violence, and organising the youth forum "Without Masks"

• Fundraising, including a literary evening in Lviv at the start of the full-scale invasion to buy water for Mykolaiv, and helping run events at a local youth space

• Erasmus+ projects in Georgia, Azerbaijan, Lithuania and the Netherlands, and the European Solidarity Corps in Turkey, working with children and the Ukrainian community in Ankara

From: Trostianets, Sumy Oblast, Northeastern Ukraine

Top Issues:

• Young people leaving Ukraine and low youth engagement in communities

• Inclusion of people with disabilities and vulnerable groups

• Youth mental health in wartime

Interested in:

• Finance

• Business

• Economics

• Entrepreneurship

• Government

• Civil Society

• Nonprofits

• Education

• History

• Culture

• Arts

• Media

• PR