

Kateryna was born in Ukraine and lived there until 25 years old. Sadly, her hometown Donetsk was destroyed in the war, so she took her son and they travelled a bit around the world - overall she visited 37 countries and lived in some of them. Finally, she settled in lovely Portugal. She lives in Figueira da Foz for 4 years now. Katya has 13 years of experience in social entrepreneurship and nonformal education areas. Currently, she runs a network of NGOs "Youth Line" (she trained 3600 young people) and a small school for 50 orphans in Uganda called "Gifted English". In Portugal Katya created a youth association “Youth Line Portugal”, which organises Erasmus+ educational projects for European youth.
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In Portugal Katya also organised 5 conferences about financial literacy and psychology of money. She also speaks at other Portuguese and international conferences outside Europe, her topics are technology in education, personal finances, methods of non-formal education. Katya and her family live in Figueira da Foz, she is going to be staying there. She organised there several events devoted to sports and meditation. Now Katya is organising a workshop “Investing for beginners”, it will take place in Figueira da Foz. Katya devotes some time to communicate to the community via social media, overall she has around 100 000 followers on her accounts. She already speaks Portuguese and continues learning it. Katya has a lot of ongoing projects and big plans for the future, mostly about community work. She would be happy to be useful in Portugal, and especially her new hometown Figueira da Foz. European
