Author: David Bola Photo Credit: Photographer Hello Despina, glad to be talking with you today during Elevate Festival. Can you introduce yourself to We are Europe? My name is Despina Natsi, I’m a lawyer, researcher and also a youth worker and activist. I studied law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where I also did an LLM in international law. I work a lot on human rights, I have a strong commitment to promoting equality and to that extent, I do that as a lawyer, as a researcher and as a youth worker as well. You’re one of the people at the origin of the “Library in Action” project. Could you explain how the project works and what was your impulse to begin working on it? In November 2020, ActionAid had an open call for youth teens to organize projects that will change the local community of Thessaloniki. My friend and I were thinking about what we can do to change Thessaloniki because we live there and we are experiencing many difficulties. We both like storytelling a lot, so we thought about creating the Library in Action Project which is in a few words a project based on storytelling. Every
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