Open Gate and the prevention from human trafficking Training for high school students from Macedonia and Bulgaria   On 3 and 4 November in Skopje, the NGO “Open Gate” held a two-day seminar for training high school students on “Prevention from human trafficking”, which was attended by 18 representatives from eight high schools from different towns in Macedonia, as well as by representatives from the Union of High School Students. The members of “Open Gate” share their knowledge in the field of prevention and direct support to the victims of human trafficking, at the same time training the young people share the knowledge they gain to their peers. Plans for activities for prevention from human trafficking have been made for the municipalities where high school students come from. Those activities are going to be implemented in the following three months. Lecturers were also representatives from the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Education and Science, and the training was financed by the Dutch Foreign Office. The realization of the training was also assisted by the Union of High School Students of Macedonia. Within the project called “Cross-border action of young people in the fight against human trafficking”, “Open Gate – La Strada” organizes a two-day training course for high school students from Macedonia and Bulgaria that will take place between 24 and 27 November. The training course will be focused on the prevention from human trafficking. The organizations “Shansa I Zakrila” from Haskovo, Bulgaria and “Alternativa 55” from Stara Zagora, Bulgaria have also taken part in its implementation. The goal of the training was creating a team of high school students from Macedonia and Bulgaria that will further work on raising the level of informing and recognizing the human trafficking and organize activities in the direction of increasing the level of informing among the young population. The high school students got familiar with the human trafficking conditions on our country, especially the children trafficking and they were also presented the Ministry of Interior’s programme for overcoming the problem on national as well as on regional level. In the month of November “Open Gate” has organized the first two-day meeting of the National NGO Network for fight against human trafficking in Macedonia called “Budnost” in order to analyze and determine its priorities. The meeting was financially supported by the Dutch Agency for Development in Macedonia – CNV. The National NGO Network for fight against human trafficking “Budnost” aims to contribute to the fight against human trafficking, as well as to help and protect the victims of human trafficking being identified on the territory of the Republic of Macedonia.   K.B.