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Interview with Manuela Ronco

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What is the World Esperanto Youth Organization (TEJO) and its main focus?

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TEJO focuses primarily on informing in youth contexts

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about Esperanto as a possible solution to the language problem in international relations and

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organizes congresses, conferences, seminars and other meetings

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and we also provide many services for our members and country sections

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for example, publications or different brochures and press releases

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which create a network for exchanging information and cooperation and

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generally TEJO works to help their members actively participate in the Esperanto movement.

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What is the typical everyday life of the TEJO volunteer?

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What do you do here?

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I have many tasks.

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My everyday work consists of dealing with TEJO's email and postal mail and different administative tasks

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and I take care of contacts with members, country sections and also with other European and non-European organizations.

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Other tasks could be to cooperate with the board to make grant requests,

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update the website and represent TEJO at meetings,

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so I generally actively support the board and commissioners of TEJO.

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So actually, you spoke about the members, so why is it good to be a member of TEJO?

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Membership in TEJO is good, because first you receive services from TEJO and also advantages

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for example, you receive our magazines. You can also have a blog on TEJO's website and

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get a discount on the International Youth Congress of Esperanto.

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You also have a chance to participate in seminars.

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Through your membership, you help the youth Esperanto movement and if you want

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you can get involved in interesting and international projects, so that can also be a good experience for you.

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So, you spoke about magazines. Which magazines?

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The magazines are Kontakto and TEJO-Tutmonde, which will merge at the beginning of next year (2011).

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What is the difference between them?

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Kontakto is a magazine in Esperanto, but not about Esperanto.

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TEJO-Tutmonde is about the Esperanto movement.

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What is the International Youth Congress of Esperanto and where will it take place next year?

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The Internatlonal Youth Congress of Esperanto is the main gathering of TEJO

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and possibly the most important event for Esperanto youth.

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It happens every year in another country. This year in Cuba, next year in Kiev, Ukraine.

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It is organized by TEJO and its country section and by local activists.

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What advice would you give someone, who is attending IJK for the first time?

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I can't answer that, because I've never been to IJK,

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but generally I would recommend to someone who attends a youth meeting for the first time,

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profit to practice the language as much as possible and to meet as many people as possible

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and not only those who are most similar to you, but also those who are most different

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and to beginners, I would say, that they shouldn't be afraid of not understanding

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because after a bit of time, that's no longer a problem.

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Thank you for the very interesting information!

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You're welcome.