PROJECT REPORTS

The beginning of the month of July meant the closure of the schools for the almost 3 months long summer holiday periode here in Greece. With the summer holidays also another aspect of my ESC project began: summer activities. This meant spending the afternoon playing with the kids of the neighbourhood in order to provide […]

While the last month was quite filled with new experiences, this month started rather boring with the schools and shops still being closed and the new measurements taken prohibiting also water sports. Being very limited in the options this meant spending the working time either on computer work or on finishing the paintings in the

Who are you, where do you come from? I am Minou Heinemann, from Bamberg, Germany (Bavaria). How come you’ve decided to go on ESC? I wanted to go on ESC, because I found it to be a great opportunity to engage in a new culture and to benefit a local community by helping in a

Mein Name ist Sascha Schlüter, ich bin 30 Jahre alt und komme aus der Nähe von Magdeburg. Von Mai 2019 bis Februar 2020 absolvierte ich meinen neunmonatigen EFD beim Volunteers Centre Skopje in der mazedonischen Hauptstadt Skopje. Bereits nach einer Studienreise mit den Jungen Europäischen Föderalisten (JEF) im Jahr 2017, hatte ich beschlossen, dass ich

Arriving at the airport of the Greek island Chios, I was lucky enough to directly meet another volunteer of the project “TES”: Technology, Education and Sports for which I was accept as volunteer. We were picked up by our mentor and brought to the house in the small costal town Vrontados which was supposed to

Am Abreisetag noch schnell den Koffer gepackt und dann los. Als ich nachts in Beirut gelandet bin, die lichterfüllten Berge und mein Viertel „Ain El Remmeneh“ zum ersten Mal erblicken durfte, war ich überwältigt von der Schönheit Beiruts. Am ersten Abend wurde ich von vielen anderen Jugendlichen beim Chabibeh Club erwartet und durch die Nachbarschaft

My name is Juliette, I’m 25 years old and from a small village in Germany. One year before my volunteering program, I decided to go to Italy. It started in the NaturKultur house, where I was participant in a youth exchange which inspired me to join more opportunities given by the european solidary corps. This

It is surprising how fast the unknown can become known and a foreign land become home. And how fast time runs sometimes. It seems just now that two strangers picked me up at the airport and now I‘m already saying goodbye to them as good friends. I was in Skopje, North-Macedonia for 9 months #volunteering

Bok! I am Jana, a 19-year old German-Estonian from Rietberg, Germany. From September 2018 till August 2019 I lived in Zagreb, Croatia, where I took part in the programm known as European Voluntary Service. The decision to go on EVS was an easy one to make for me. After finishing my „Abitur“ in July 2018,

Unsere Reise beginnt am 04.11.2019. Wir, Kaja und Minou, haben uns am Flughafen beim Gepäckband getroffen und waren beide sehr glücklich nun endlich in die neue Heimat mit dem Bus zu fahren. Die Fahrt nach Blanes dauerte zwar relativ lang (3 Stunden), wir tauschten uns aber erstmal aus und es war perfekt um sich gleich