Peer Educators Together with Students in Dupnitsa for Online Safety

On March 18, 27 and 28, 2025, a team of young peer educators trained by us toured three schools, presenting and talking to the youth on topics related to online safety and internet security, as well as on topics related to critical thinking, opportunities and potential dangers on the network. Leading the implementation of the initiatives, Nedyalko and David, our volunteers, with the support of Alexandra Yordanova from the Pencho Slaveykov community center in the city, met and talked to children in fifth and sixth grades of the Hristaki Pavlovich Primary School and the Evlogi Georgiev Primary School.

The youth explained to their peers how the 124 123 hotline works, how and why it is good to have their profiles locked. The students had questions about why it is important to take screenshots, the conversation touched on what is appropriate to do in cases of online bullying.

‘It went very well in all three schools, there was communication between us, I put them in situations where they had to give advice based on what they had learned to people harassed in the online world,’ says Nedyalko. In one of the schools, the teachers expressed a desire to hold a discussion on early marriages and human trafficking.

At the Vocational High School for Transport in Dupnitsa, the young trainers met and talked about the same topics with eighth and ninth graders.
These initiatives in March 2025 were implemented within the framework of our project ‘Digital Children’.
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