Iolanda Apostoaiei has a strong passion for the International Cooperation field and for the defence of Human Rights. She holds a degree in Social Sciences for Cooperation and Development from La Sapienza University in Rome and is currently preparing the thesis for the Master in Migration and Transnationalism that she is following at Universidade Nova in Lisbon.
She has a long term voluntary experience in Italy and Portugal, having worked with less advantaged communities, for NGOs( Caritas, Sant’Egiodio, Conselho Portugues para os Refugiados)that deal with immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees, with a special attention to women and children in diffucult situations.
At the moment she is an intern at Human is Right, working for the Prisioner’s Right Project. Her tasks here include collecting field data, giving legal support and facilitate the re-integration of the detenees in the Buea Prison.