Siddharth is a mechanical engineer and an ex-entrepreneur from India. Passionate about human consciousness, awareness and art, he moved to Sweden to participate at the International Youth Initiative Program to explore his interests and find his purpose. He seems terribly excited to understand the SEKEM economy, and the community. He is astonished by how SEKEM thrives braving all the challenges which comes along with such a big organisation. He desires to find himself contributing at the University there. He intents to take initiatives, contribute to the community and learn more organisational art.
 

When he is not in lost in his thoughts, he likes to sketch and read. He is a closet poet who secretly loves rhyming. He detests small talk and crowds & longs for deep conversations."

Luna Stassen is 18 years old and was born in Holland, but lived on the island of St. Maarten in the Caribbean from four to thirteen years old. She finished her education back in the Netherlands, decided to take a gap year, and ended up at YIP. Ever since she was little, she felt pulled to Egypt and the mystical ancient stories of Gods and Goddesses. She has researched about mythology, and the Egyptian myths never cease to enchant her. She believe that recently, the desert has been calling her.

Sun is from South Korea and she is 25 years old. She'd like to identify herself as an activist, artist, gardener and….free human being!
She graduated alternative high school, and after that, have been living & working in youth eco-commune since 2012. Started by 2 young initiative women, they lent 1ha of land made their permaculture gardens, designed and held ecological festivals, developed sustainable workshops.
During that time, she also visited eco-villages around world -India, Thailand, Italy and Greece- for learning ideas for their commune.
Now she’s in Yip, learn more about the world, herself and bring positive change to the earth out of love.
She is interested in sustainable communities, feminism, art, social change, youth works and heeling processes. For her all these are deeply connected through “SPIRITUALITY”.
She's biggest intention is bringing spirituality in our life over reconnect with nature.

Personal intentions
How spiritual works influence individual life & community life.
how can we rebuild connection with nature.
how can we nature in our life(ex. herbal medicines, wild food)
Learn from ecological & spiritual villages around world.

Huang Yu Hsiu is from Taiwan (R.O.C) and is twenty years old.

She had a very different growing background than most of the other Taiwanese youths, as she had been studying in the Steiner education system from kindergarten to high school, at Ci-Xin Waldorf School.

She is super interested in music, art, health care, education, humans, cultures, languages, and communities.

At SEKEM she wishes to know about the health care system, and how it functions in an alternative way and in the anthroposophy way. Moreover, as a woman herself, she is also curious about how it is to be a woman in a place like Egypt, in the same time as being conscious about how it values to be a woman.

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Eva is eighteen and is from the Netherlands. Last year, she graduated High school at Pre-university level. Her main-subjects were science based, but she attended art- and theatre classes as well. She is interested in the combination of art and science.
She would like to understand the universe better in its complexity. She wants to know more about the earth, other people, new cultures and how we can connect with each other and the earth in a sustainable and healthy way. She thinks that we should see the world from diverse perspectives and make connections between different areas, for example between Biology, Economy and Politics. 

She also wants to Learn and understand another religion and culture.

David is 24 years old and grew up in Seattle Washington. For the past five years he has been a truck driver, heavy equipment operator, art student and commercial fishermen. He is now attending the International Youth Initiative Program in search for new perspectives on life and learning.