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May 11th, 2012 - 4:34 pm § in Uncategorized

WELCOME THE 2012 FELLOWS FROM THE U.S.

We are pleased to announce the following 2012 U.S. Fellows:
• David from Gainesville, Florida
• Roma from Charlotte, North Carolina
• Molly from New York, New York
• Dillon from Rancho Santa Fe, California
• Amanda from Tucson, Arizona
• Max from Atlanta, Georgia
• Amber from Tallahassee, Florida
• Sara from Charlotte, North Carolina
• Victorie from San Francisco, California
• Eric from San Diego, California

In addition, we have 58 International Fellows from 41 Countries. Those countries are: Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.

We look forward to meeting everyone in July.


May 2nd, 2012 - 3:42 pm § in Welcome

WELCOME 2012 FELLOWS

We are really happy to announce that we will have 58 European and 10 U.S. Fellows this year from 42 European Countries and the United States. Keep watching this space for more information on the new Fellows and go to Ben Franklin 2012 to follow them. Let the adventure begin!!![...]


April 8th, 2012 - 1:40 pm § in Uncategorized

Rosa Huhtamaki Engages Through Art

Rosa Huhtamaki (BFTF Fellow Finland) has a project coming up more in the artistic/social engagement mode. She is doing an art project with a friend nationwide about the pressure of media that is put on to young people about their body. It is called ” your body is beautiful”. She will [...]


April 8th, 2012 - 11:58 am § in Uncategorized

Angela Espinosa Ruiz

Angela Espinosa Ruiz, BFTF Fellow Spain , shared her exciting new project  She is doing a blog about Belarus that she started following the prize awarded and seminars in Warsaw Poland.  She was consequently invited to  http://pravdabelorusskaja.wordpress.com/ Also, here’s more information[...]


April 8th, 2012 - 11:31 am § in Uncategorized

Daniel Voda Interviews NC Secretary of State

Daniel Voda, Moldova,  recently interviewed the North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall , former Senate candidate and currently seeking re-election as NC Sec of State, in Moldova. He also invited Marshall to join the BFTF students at Wake Forest this summer, where he will serve as mentor[...]


April 8th, 2012 - 11:25 am § in Uncategorized

Kamile Kami Fuad Invites Remembrance of Day of Roma.

Kamile Kami Faud (2011 Macedonia Fellow) invites her friends ot celebrate the International Day of the Roma people . She wanted to share this emotions with all of you . Theres a lot of events going on in this day all around the world. In Skopje we just did Dance Mob and it was great. [...][...]


April 6th, 2012 - 3:42 pm § in Uncategorized

BFTF Alumni Launch New Youth Program

BFTF-ers of two different years: Jonas Tylewski ( BFTF 2011, Germany) and me Narine Lalafaryan ( BFTF 2010, Armenia) are launching a new international project ” Young European Peers”  an international youth exchange gathering 28 young people from seven countries, Armenia, Belgium, B[...]