We are volunteering in the special needs school, with kids with intellectual disabilities, and with kids with hearing impairment. Also we are volunteering in the Center for kids and young adults with autism. We spend most of our time doing activities in the latter. Spending time with these kids puts life into perspective. I mean,…
At the moment we are working in one school for deaf children, and another two centers (one public and one private) for children with disabilities (autism, Down syndrome, intellectual disability). We are going to stay and work in Bucharest until December. In the following months we will start work in hospitals and centers for elder…
Hello! My name is Natasha, and I am not 19 (just for the record). I am from Macedonia, currently volunteering in Arad, Romania. My project will last for 11 months and I am quite sure this will be a huge opportunity for me to learn new skills and strengthen the ones I have. This project…
While you are reading this, I am in Arad, Romania volunteering on an 11-month project named OLE or Outdoor Leisure Education together with two volunteers from Macedonia and six more from Spain and Portugal (that we are still waiting to come). The project will involve the children with obesity problems and our mission will be…
Here we've also met many other volunteers from around the World that work on different projects what makes our stay even more exciting. Now let me tell you about our project – OLE. OLE or Outdoor Leisure Education is a project that involves the children with obesity. Our goal is to show these children how…
Моментот кога ќе те одберат два месеци пред да наполниш 31 година, а максимум лимит за да оствариш ЕВС е 30, е тоа е среќа со сигурност, и плус земја за волонтирање Шпанија,на среќата и немаше крај! :) Моето име е Викторија Цавироска и волонтирам во Колиндрес градче во близина на Билбао, во период од…
The most interesting note is that actually during EVS you will help yourself more than you will help the local community. You are going to live in a foreign country for up to one year trying to interact with the locals whom you cannot understand when they address you, and trying to stay alongside your…
I am Borjanka from Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. Currently, I’m EVS volunteer on a project in Arad, Romania, which I found through ’’ Volunteers Center Skopje’’. The EVS project is called ‘’Outdoor Alternatives’’ and it lasts from February to July. Our activities include working in a forest, in the ‘’Corcubeu’’ school where we teach children…
Hello! My name is Gordana and I am a volunteer in Malaga, Spain. I work as a volunteer in the museum of science Principia. This project enabled me to improve my knowledge of Spanish and to improve my knowledge in science like biology, chemistry, physics etc. My work here is to explain the experiments and…
Arriving for the first time in Istanbul before three months ago I was "yabancı" and my first destination where I should go was "Balat". I came in Istanbul as "yabancı", but since I entered in the narrow streets of this historic İstanbul neighborhood I have experienced some strange feelings of shared energy and identity,... I…
L'Arche is a International Federation dedicated to the creation and growth of homes, programs, and support networks with people who have intellectual disabilities. Today, it is an international organization operating in 40 countries, and on six continents. My hosting organisation is Barka and is located in Slovenia. It is contained from two houses in which…
Through her work she is improving knowledge in science as biology, chemistry or physics as well as improving knowledge of Spanish. And what she is saying about her EVS town? “Malaga is a beautiful place and people are very nice. If you like to live by the sea and learn more about Spanish culture, I…
Already from the plane I saw an extraordinary view comparing to region I’ve been living for one year till now. Green meadows, straight streets and huge, flat space covered with woods, villages and fields everywhere! Not even a single hill visible, forget even having thought about a mountain! But green and clean. And still not…
We were part of the Macedonian group of volunteers on a short term EVS in Burgas, Bulgaria. Our main project was organizing and performing on the street festival Carrousel on the Streetin Pomorie and Lozenets, which turned out to be a fun way to explore the region, get to know the other volunteers from Macedonia,…
Hello people! I'm Frosina and a week ago I returned from a year volunteering in Sisak, Croatia where I was EVS volunteer in "Local Democracy Agency", and my task was to promote volunteering. Since about a year I can say that it was always nice, I laughed and I cried, I thought about life, about me,…
I spent my one-year arrangement as a volunteer in an institution for women in acute situations, where I was active directly in the admission team. There is a variety of reasons for anyone to take this step. I had several, and every one of them is equally important. Making a retrospective to the past year…
The first time for me to get in contact with volunteering and working on Youth field was back in 2009 when I came back from China and had finished my studies there. I didn’t know what to do, so I had accepted the invitation from a friend of mine to go to VCS’s office in…
The first time for me to get in contact with volunteering and working on Youth field was back in 2009 when I came back from China and had finished my studies there. I didn’t know what to do, so I had accepted the invitation from a friend of mine to go to VCS’s office in…
It’s not easy to blab with your friends at home, to be open, excited and in love with the world, to want to share that, but not to be able to say it. It’s not easy to be the only foreigner. To go somewhere where you’re not needed, where people function perfectly with or without…
The next step was the corridor leading to the plain, the excitement growing bigger and bigger, although I must admit that I don’t like plains so much. Anyway, it was time to take off, and when I saw Vasko turning pale, the fear increased. But everything went OK, after the three-hour flight we arrived at…