Rare Girls

Dilangez Soibkulova is from Tajikistan and has been living in Warsaw, Poland, for 4 years. Dilangez has her own business, a real estate company in Warsaw and she works with Incruises, the largest cruise company in the world. Dilangez loves to travel and she found a way to help others to travel in a profitable and affordable way. Instagram: @soibqulova_dilya

Patricia Iordache is a student at the National College “Carol 1” in Craiova, Romania. Her hobbies are dancing, poetry, reading books and psychology. Patricia spends most of her time in dance classes, but she also loves “wasting” time going out with her friends. She is a social butterfly, she loves partying and meeting new people. Patricia wants to become a choreographer and a dance teacher. Instagram: @patriiixo._

Shamima Mirmastova is from Tajikistan, she graduated in Management from Bishkek State University in Kyrgyzstan, and was the AIESEC Local Committee President in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Shamima loves drawing, reading books, sports, especially doing stretching 3 times a week, and she loves her cats. Shamima has an online library focused on giving community access to rare and interesting books, and plans to make this an offline project in the future. Instagram: @_shamima.m

Sophie Terstappen is from Switzerland, but currently doing an exchange in Chicago, the United States. Sophie adores soccer and is very interested in History, especially the history of Chicago. Instagram: @trspnsophie

Nikol Hutsul is a Ukrainian girl who moved in April to Porto, Portugal. Nikol has a bachelor’s degree in English Philology, speciality of Interpretation English/Ukrainian. A year ago, Nikol started her education in programming, and now she is studying Informatics and Computer Engineering at University of Porto. Nikol is a student worker. She works at the company Critical TechWorks, BMW Group. And her hobbies are singing and yoga. Instagram: @nicole.gutsul

Valeria Vrancea is a Moldovan girl living in Aarhus, Denmark. She is studying at VIA University College faculty of Global nutrition and health as well as being an eyebrow master. Valeria loves reading books, watching movies and documentaries, and swimming. Valeria moved from Moldova to Denmark independently, she makes her own money and does not need financial help from family, and she is constantly working to grow her success, her emotional maturity and her self-development. Instagram: @valeria_vrancea

Maria-Raluca Olteanu is a student of medicine from Bucharest, Romania. Maria-Raluca likes drawing, music, reading and recently the gym. She has taken part in volunteering activities at Curtea de Argeș, as well as a journalism project. Instagram: @mariaraluc

Valeria Stahi is from Criuleni, in the Republic of Moldova. She studies art, music (specifically piano and guitar) In 2019, she became the ambassador of Global Goals, she volunteered a lot, won art contests and was a participant at the Republican Olympics of english and biology. Instagram: @hazel_scott420

Gabriela Bradu is from a little village in The Republic of Moldova called “Ustia”, studying in Criuleni. Gabriela loves reading, it helps her develop herself, recharge her batteries, and learn about other people's experiences. Her favorite book genres are: psychological thriller, history fiction and nonfiction books, “self-help books”, and Romance novels. This Spring, in May, she will take the Cambridge English exam for the level FSE or CC1. Instagram: @gabriela.bradu

Roberta Mihaela Butu is a volunteer originally from Galati, Romania. Her hobbies are drawing and reading, and she has experience helping kids. Instagram: @roby.butu

Lâl Cengiz is a Sociology student in Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey. Lâl works towards being a musician and a singer, she plays some instruments like the ukulele, violin, guitar, a little piano and bass. Lâl had an MUN resolution regarding the Western European Refugee Crisis sent to Geneva Conference. Instagram: @benimadimlal

Rimma Holokolosova is from a littles town in the east of Ukraine and now living and studying in a gymnasium in Germany. She loves football, drawing and playing the Ukulele. Instagram: @thexrix

Melaniia Cherepanyna is originally from Kyiv but currently lives in Michigan, the United States, Melaniia is finishing her high school in America and planning to study political science or philosophy, She loves writing, working out, and going out with friends. Instagram: @__ainalem__

Maria Kostenko graduated University in Ukraine where she studied English and Marketing Her hobbies include dancing, photo shootings for fashion brands, and sport She currently works in an office of an international company, but also does other projects as a social media and PR manager, a part of a design project in Berlin, and a delivery company in Kyiv. After the war started, Maria traveled from Kyiv to Berlin alone with only one bag and two telephone numbers of people who live in Berlin which she never knew nor met before She stayed in Berlin almost 6 month before returning to Kyiv to continue living her life and doing her work. Instagram: @kostenkomariaa

Duurenzaya Ganzorig is a winner of the Presidential Scholarship living in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia, Currently, she is waiting to study abroad at the University of Bristol, England and her major is computer science and electronics. Duurenzaya loves to listen to music and she combines pics and videos taken by her to create video clips for her favorite songs which helps her to relieve stress and boost her confidence, She also likes to dance, she has been doing ballet since she was 4 years old and when she was 16, she started to teach ballet for children Duurenzaya participated in the Tanzolymp Asia 2018 which is an international ballet competition. Instagram: @duurenena

Anna Bazarna is a Young European Ambassador from Ukraine, and both a student of System Analysis and Financial Markets at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in Ukraine and living in Paris for her Senior year on “Applied Informatics and Business Management” at PSL-DAUPHINE, Paris, France, which is the worlds top 26 Universities and French top 1 ranked university. Anna is a GlobalLink Research Internship Mitacs awardee — an opportunity for students from 17 countries to spend 12 weeks in Canada for doing research. She also was an Erasmus exchange student-intern at one the best engineering schools in France - Ecole des mines de Nancy. Anna is currently working as a Business IT specialist at Grant Thornton company (which is a British audit and financial company). Instagram: @mlle.ania

Irina Elena Bulat is a volunteer at Red Cross from Ramnicu Valcea, Romania, and involved in a lot of activities to support her community. Irina is finishing mathematics and computer sciences at her school, and plans to study Medicine after graduation because her passion is Biology and Chemistry, and she loves to help people around her. Irina loves singing a lot, she attended the school choir, she enjoys listening to music, she learned by her own piano songs, and took dance classes in her youth. Her favorite sport is skiing, she has been practicing this sport for almost 10 years. And she also likes playing volleyball, because she trained for 1 year when she was 14 years old. Irina loves traveling, she joined 2 Erasmus projects: One in the Netherlands and one in a small town in Romania. Irina enjoys cycling, watching films in the genres of Romance, drama, adventure, and thriller, playing cards, watching Formula 1, and spending time with her friends and family. Instagram: @iru.bulat

Anastasiia Psariuk is a Marketing Student at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine. She is fond of art, singing and ballroom dancing. She has been developing in these fields for 11 years, and has many awards, cups and medals. Anastasiia also does modeling, and loves sports and cooking. And she is beginning to learn about Web Design, Social Media Management, and Interior Design, and could grow her skills higher in these areas. Her current goal is to get a bachelor’s degree in marketing in Ukraine, then go to improve her qualifications in the United States. Instagram: @p.s.anasteisha

Vlada Kostoglodova is a high school student of Finance and Law at Lyceum in Kyiv, Ukraine graduating in 2023. Her hobbies are reading, baking and studying foreign languages (currently in addition to English, she studies German and plans to move to Germany to receive her bachelor’s degree). Vlada is participating in a non-profit organization as an English tutor for Ukrainian kids and teenagers who want to improve their English knowledge. She is also a mentee in a mentorship program for Ukrainian teens and a participant of a non-profit organization ENGin that matches Ukrainians with a speaking buddy from the USA and that is a great intercultural experience. Instagram: @blumigzeit

Iulia Maria Aldea is from Bucharest, Romania. She studies at 2 Universities: Business Administration at the faculty of business administration in ASE Bucharest & psychology at “Titu Maiorescu” University Bucharest. Iulia loves socializing, meeting new interesting people and bonding with them, interpreting art, running, dancing, as well as reading Iulia is most proud of the self-development work she has done on herself, healing her childhood wounds and transforming from an anxious shy teenager to a confident young woman. Instagram: @iuliaaaldea

Emilia Colti is a National swimming Champion of Romania, a Balkan Medalist and an All-American Student Athlete in the United States. Emilia is from Ploiesti, Romania and currently studying criminal justice at University of Indianapolis in USA In the future, Emilia is interested in working in the fields of crime scene investigation or criminalistics. Instagram: @emypss

Emiliana Sirenko is originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, and now lives in Brussels, Belgium. She studies in parallel in 2 schools: Final Grade of Ukrainian school (where she mainly studies sciences, law, mathematics, and Ukrainian language, literature and history) and on IB program in British School of Brussels (BSB) where she studies high level mathematics, computer science, economics, biology, French, english literature, and arts. Instagram: @est_luire

Maria Kourtidou is from Larissa, Greece where she studies at the Department of International and European Studies Maria is a dancer, she loves painting, and she really adores listening to music. Instagram: @_mariakourtidou_

Marina Karelina studies now both in Ukraine and in Switzerland because of the war. In life, she adores singing, she is a Choir singer, and danced for 8 years modern dance, hip hop, contemporary modern and slow ballet. Instagram: @_ccuddliess

Liuba Tanchak is the President of 48th High School in Kyiv, Ukraine. She is a Ukrainian folk singer, an English language tutor, a volunteer and and an active leader of Sharm (Active District Youth of Shevchenkivski Area, all School Presidents). Since autumn started, she made a video for the International Forum in New York. Instagram: @tanchlove

Ioana-Teodora Dobre lives in Pitești, Romania, studying Social Sciences in the top high-school in her town. Ioana-Teodora is crazy about volunteering, teamwork and working with kids, these are things she really loves to do. She also knows how to play the guitar and she was part of a dance team for 9 years. In the past 2 years, Ioana-Teodora participated in a lot of charity projects in her city and also in ecology and mountain sports activities. In the summer of 2022, she spent one month volunteering for an English camp where she worked with hundreds of kids and people from all over the world. This experience changed her perspective about life and its beauties. But these activities are only possible for her because a few years ago she started to learn English after a long period of time when it was her worst nightmare. Instagram: @teo_ioana2.4

Rumiya Imatshoevna is from Khorog, Tajikistan. She lives in the United States but right now she is back in her home country to work at a mobile clinic (that goes around villages and provide free medical diagnostic) Rumiya studies Biotechnology at the University of Kansas but she wants to become a physician Her hobbies are: people watching, reading and traveling Her biggest achievement is that she has established a PCR laboratory for c-virus testing in her home town. At that time, she was the only specialist then she started teaching others this specialty. Instagram: @r.umiya

Samin Alemi is originally from Tehran, the capital of Iran, but she has been living in Malaysia for more than 13 years. Samin is currently studying English Literature in her final year at UPM in Malaysia and working in the field of cinema in her country "Iran". She has a small resume of working as an actress in short movies and working as an assistant director. Her interests are mainly in drama and cinema and she is also working in a theater production in Malaysia right now. Samin's big dream is to become an actress and to have her own production because it was her passion since she was just a little kid. In her free time, she loves to watch movies and play tennis. Instagram: @samin_alemi

Nika Zimon is a Future Leaders Exchange Program Alumna of 2017 from Ukraine, and a former FLEX City Representative Dnipro. Nika works in marketing, she loves philosophy and theology, plays the piano, and is involved in various charities. Her focus is discovering and accepting herself and others. Instagram: @nika__zimon

Amanda Niza Gonzalez Mejia is originally from Caracas, Venezuela, but grew up in US in the outskirts of DC, in Arlington, Virginia. During High School, she was the Virginia Student Action Coordinator for Amnesty International, President of the Latin American Student Association and Student Representative for the Equity Team, Co-lead her school's Generation Ratify chapter (which organized multiple county-wide protests), and was a writer/editor for an independent student run publication called The Vanguard. Amanda is currently studying Political Economy at Duke Kunshan University but she is very interested in Behavioral Science. She loves listening to all kinds of music, hanging out with her friends, and working out. She just started college so she is looking to become more involved in extracurricular activities. Instagram: @amandaniiza

Arianna Kerdei is a Fashion Business student at Instituto Marangoni London. Originally from Chernivtsi, Ukraine, her hobbies are reading fashion and psychology literature. In addition, she was selected as a mentee (participant/student) of the Women@Dior leadership and mentorship program created by Christian Dior couture house in order to empower young ladies. This is definitely one of the most important achievements in her professional field for the last year. Now, she is a student of the 1-year mentorship program as well as working as a Sales Associate in Giorgio Armani. Instagram: @ariannakerdei

Maryna Kalaur is a Ukrainian model, mini blogger, traveller, and sports girl. Maryna was born in Poltava, Ukraine. She is studying in Poltava National Pedagogical University as well as recently entered Porto University in Portugal to study a Bachelor of Computer Science and Informatics. Maryna's hobbies are running, practicing yoga, coding and reading books. In the last 3 months she read 15 books as a challenge to herself. Maryna spends time studying and practicing coding, she supports the success of girls in the coding field, and she has already finished 2 certification courses for Ukrainian women from SheCodes. About running, she started running 5 months ago and now she can run 10km in the morning which is great progress for a person who hated running 1 year ago. Maryna's credo is: “Live in the moment and enjoy every day” Instagram: @kalaur_marina

Yasemin Özsüt is a Senior student of Architecture at Istanbul Kultur University in Turkey Yasemin had multiple hobbies in the past in different fields including tennis, piano, and fitness. Yasemin improves herself by reading books and articles on psychology, philosophy and architecture because these topics fascinate her. Yasemin has been enjoying writing since she was a kid and so she is freelance writing because she has developed this skill. In the Summer of 2022, Yasemin and her friends completely renovated a village school with an organization they founded called Effective Architects @etkinmimarlarr. Apart from that, she loves spending time with the people she loves, discovering new places, enjoying "art", and spending time alone with a good coffee. Instagram: @yaseminozst

Bianca-Maria Iota is a Romanian (Craiova) FLEX Participant '22-'23 in Chicago, IL. Bianca-Maria likes writing, sculpting and reading, and she won prizes in international french creative writing contests. Instagram: @biancaa.iota

Saadia Idhamouch is a student of Physics Sciences from Tiznit in Morocco. Saadia loves Traditional and Digital drawing since her childhood, reading books especially fantasy which inspire her to keep writing her own book, playing video games as a stress releaser, watching TV series, movies, and much more. Saadia participated in Digigirlz mentorship as a mentee and started her own business with a team, which helped her turn her own business idea into reality. Saadia also freelances as an artist and graphic designer and she worked with more than 50 clients in around a year. Instagram: @id.yomii

Ganzorig Khulan lives in the capital city Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Recently, she was chosen for Mongolian President Scholarship 2022, which is the Top Scholarship in Mongolia, She is currently taking a gap year but she already has accepted an offer from Budapest University of Technology and Economic so she will start studying for a bachelor degree in Civil Engineering starting January 2023. Also, in June, she completed her preparatory course which is required for scholarship holders. Ola is an artistic person. She cannot imagine her life without writing poems, painting, singing and playing instruments. Instagram: @ineedfuckinbreak

Aya Idmbairi is from Tiznit City, in Morocco, in her final school year of studying physics sciences. In her free time, Aya loves baking and cooking, reading, listening to podcasts and creating her own Podcast episodes @MidnighThoughtsCast, and she loves trying new things and having new experiences. Aya participated in Digigirlz mentorship program as well as succeeded in being in the National Competition in Morocco and later on representing her home country of Morocco in the Arab Girl’s summit in Jordan. Instagram: @afk_ayaa

Daria Carp is is an active volunteer in the city of Criuleni in Moldova and currently studying in a lycée. Her hobbies including reading books in English especially those written by Colleen Hoover, going on long walks by herself in the forest as well as listening to music while doing homework. Instagram: @dashaynx

Elisabeth Röben is from Brussels, Belgium and she has 3 nationalities: Turkish, German & Ecuadorean. Currently, she is an Erasmus Exchange Student in Istanbul, Turkey and originally studying in Belgium at the Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS). Elisabeth is in her final year of cinematography studies and she desires to study Social Psychology after her graduation. Everything related to psychology interests her a lot. Elisabeth has a strong artistic side to her personality, she loves to draw, to write, to dance, to play the piano among other fun activities that express her creativity. Elisabeth is a traveler, she has traveled to over 40 countries, and she speaks 6 languages fluently. Elisabeth never stays still, she always wants to explore and to achieve more, so she will never stop learning and growing. And she is proud that her personality is kind because everyone around can feel she has good intentions. Instagram: @0603am

Andra Magher is a student at University of Bucharest, Romania studying Business Administration. Andra was born and raised in Bucharest, and her hobbies include creating content for her Tik Tok account and makeup. She really loves to do makeup looks, in particular, Halloween makeup . Andra currently has a wonderful internship for an international company and she is really proud that she is in her second year in college yet already taken important steps in achieving the career she dreamed of since her childhood. Instagram: @mabel.andra

Diana Barascu is from Pitesti, Romania. She studies mostly Romanian and English, and her hobbies include traveling, watching movies and fashion. Diana passed every Cambridge exam she has taken, and this year she is taking the The C1 Advanced Exam, Diana got a scholarship last year because she had the best grades in her class, she has travelled to almost all continents and she has recently applied to the Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX) hoping she will get selected to study a year in the United States. Instagram: @dianaa.barascuu

Anastasiia Kharchenko was born and raised in Kyiv. She finished her Bachelor's degree in Kyiv Mohyla Academy in Management and Business Administration. During the Pandemic, she applied and was accepted for the Work and Travel program to the United Stated (which was a rare achievement at those times) and she spent 3 months in the US working as a hostess in Ocean City, Maryland. During the War in Ukraine, she evacuated and lived in Ireland for 6 months. Also, she has applied to different grants and spent 1 month as an exchange student in Juvaskula University of Applied Sciences in Finland, where she was studying Business and Psychology. After, she was invited for a summer program In Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Anastasiia attended music school, and singing is one of her hobbies. Instagram: @aanstasii

Olena Lytvyn is a Marketing student at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Olena likes literature, theatre, dancing, and stretching In April 2021, she was the ambassador of the global initiative of the United Nations Children's Fund "The World's Largest Lesson ". she gave a lesson for Ukrainian schoolchildren, where she raised the issue of the consequences of climate change. In May of 2022, Olena met with German students at the Gymnasium Stephaneum House II in the city of Aschersleben and told about the Russian-Ukrainian war. Instagram: @_lena.lytvyn_

Anna Tkach is a Bachelor of Marketing student at Kyiv Mohyla Academy in Ukraine. She loves styling people and doing photography. Anna is an experienced gymnast with 10 years of gymnastics practice, and she speaks 4 languages at a competent level including English and German. Instagram: @boboljnk

Pavlina Batzela is from Larissa in Greece and her goal is to become a psychologist. Her hobbies include listening to music, observing the world, learning about new things, traveling to new cities and seeing how people interact with each other in different situations and cultures. Pavlina really likes reading books about romance, psychology and self-development. And she has won medals in various Sports including Tae kwon do and Gymnastics. Instagram: @_.pavlinakii._

Polina Storozhuk is a "HMC Projects" scholarship program winner to study for two years in a British independent school who is also a FLEX Finalist 2022. Polina organizes different projects for youth with other teenagers as she is a member of „LEAP” platform. One of their most recent projects was a plogging event (which is a combination of jogging with picking up litter), where that ran and collected litter in the local park. Polina enjoys reading, volunteering, and to develop herself in every way as well as playing table tennis and volleyball. Polina had to evacuate to Poland due to the war in Ukraine and studied in a Polish school for 4 months. She took part in various competitions there and even won a table tennis championship in Warsaw, where representatives of multiple schools took part. Instagram: @polina_strzhuk

Diana Krizhanovska is an English & Polish Philology student at National Pedagogical Drahomanov University, in Kyiv Ukraine. She loves Singing, reading books, Watching series, drawing, and Listening to Music. She took part in singing contests, and received a scholarship to study at her University. Instagram: @irradiant__

Maria Ciocan is from Ramnicu Valcea, Romania, and she recently graduated in 2022 from University College London with a degree in Computer Science. Her hobbies are playing chess (which is actually both a hobby and a side-job, she doesn't play competitively anymore but she teach kids), running, reading and writing. Instagram: @maria2x01

Evelina Kanarska is a Ukrainian model from from Mykolaiv, Ukraine. Because of the war, she moved to Brussels, Belgium. She is a co-founder of a youth organization “MriyDiy Junior” that provides business-education for teens and creates social projects for Mykolaiv city. Also, she is a member of the regional youth council of Mykolaiv region; And studies Politics, Math and Business at The British School of Brussels, one of the top-10 best schools in Europe and studying at her Ukrainian school at the same time. Instagram: @eva_kanarska

Olha Perch was born and raised in Kyiv. Then she moved to Dusseldorf, Germany, because of the war. She currently studies in Fresenius University of Applied sciences Cologne. Olha just completed her Bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences and is now starting her Master's degree in Digital Management. Olha is an extrovert and she loves people, her biggest joy is spending time with them. Also, she likes dancing and sports like yoga and Pilates. Moreover, she fancies writing poetry and expressing herself with the art of words. What is more, she adores photography and video making/editing. Instagram: @olia.perch