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President of the International Eurasia Press Fund (IEPF) Umud Mirzayev met with the Polish-Italian couple who is traveling around the world and looking for changemakers, in order to describe and share their stories. Their journey is based on exchange: storytelling and other skills in exchange for a place to sleep and food. How to exchange the world is the question they want to answer within the exchangeable project.

Umud Mirzayev provided the information about the work that IEPF has been doing since the time of its establishment in 1992. He also spoke about the projects aims to assist refugees and IPDs in Azerbaijan. The Organization with the Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) works in 4 key areas: Media & Civil Society Development; Community Development; Refugees/IDPs Issues; and Peace-making & Conflict Resolution.

Apart from that, the IEPF President talked about the international analytical information gateway Eurasia Diary operating under the framework of the IEPF and publishing information in five languages. Eurasia Diary is aspiring exchange of ideas on conflict resolution at global and regional level in particular, for analyzing and establishing discussion platform.

For its part, Anna Ksiazek and Andrea Pucci thanked IEPF President for a very informative dialogue. They agreed that the information about the situation about IDPs and refugees in Azerbaijan as well as about aggressive occupational policy of Armenia should be spread all around the world. Both of them were very much expressed by the activity of the Fund. The parties agreed to stay in touch and think together about future collaborative projects.

Anna Ksiazek is a Polish girl, who together with Italian partner and Andrea Pucci travel around the world to look for stories of changemnaker, social activists, collect them and spread as much as possible. They are looking for interesting contacts to changemaker in Azerbaijan. They are interested in sharing their experience in form of workshop or presentations, wanting to show young people in different organizations or cultural places that doing something good for the community is possible in whatever field you are working. They organize workshops and presentations for those who are interested in travelling and social innovations from all over the world.

All additional information about the activity of this couple can be found from this link:

http://www.exchangebabel.com/index.php?route=common/home