Anya and Mariya are Ukrainian teenage sisters living in Poland away from their family and friends. Eager to earn money, Anya pursues job offers from anonymous employers on marketplace platforms. When an offer seems too good to be true, her sister starts asking questions. Shouldn’t she know about a company before going to a strange location? Shouldn’t she have more information than a mobile number? The sisters’ risky situation highlights a problem that our research team identified among Ukrainian teenagers in Poland during focus group studies in summer 2025. The possibility–especially for youth–of exploitation, abuse and even trafficking is a real risk. Learn about the red flags of risky job offers, and what you can do to know more about an employer before responding to an online offer.
This film is produced by TK Film Creative for UNI Europa in the context of EU Project number: ESF-SI-2024-UA-01-0089, “Project title: Перші кроки до роботи (Stepping into a job): Helping Ukrainian Refugee Teens Enter the Central European Labour Market Safely and Legally, and Weighing the Trade-offs with Education”. Call number: ESF-SI-2024-UA-01, Call title: Innovative Approaches to Mitigate the Societal Consequences of Russia’s War of Aggression Against Ukraine within EU countries. Granting Authority: European Social Fund Agency. Project partners: Centrum Organizowania Związków Zawodowych, Warsaw, Poland; Fundacja Pro Futuro, Warsaw, Poland; and UNI Europa, Brussels, Belgium. Project starting date: 12/05/2025 Project end date: 12/11/2026.
**Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Social Fund Agency. Neither the European Union nor the Granting Authority can be held responsible for them.