VOLUNTEERING IN GERMANY

NOVEMBER: 3 years ago I went to a talk at the CMX about European volunteering and since then I have always wanted to do it. I started looking for projects at the end of August because my employment contract ended in September. I was looking for projects with children, animals or young people in Belgium, […]

15th of July 2021 A fresh and shy warm-humid breeze moves the polaroids we took at yesterday’s party. The sun is strong but it barely burns my skin as I sit on the desk where I get light all morning. I’d say summers in Bremen seem quite interesting to me: sun in the morning, clouds

Hey! My name is Pernille, 23 years old. I grew up in a small village in the northern part of Norway. I`m taking part in a project called „Volunteers for a Green Future“, and my working place is in a school. I chose this project because I like working with kids. Also I wanted to

9 months of my volunteering are already over my shoulders. It is actually a great time for a further reflection. Indeed, so much happened during this period. Although some (for a certain time very strict) corona restrictions were in place, it did not color my volunteer experience in black. Of course, some doors were closed

“Are you looking forward to going back to Scotland?” is the question I’m most frequently asked at the moment. I’m in the final lap of my ESC project in Bremen with only six weeks to go before I leave Germany. I tentatively answer with “yeah, I guess”, explaining that I haven’t seen my family in-person

Hi everyone, I’m Giacomo, I’m 25, I’m from Monza, a small big city close to Milan in Italy. Since the end of November I have been doing my ESC project in Bremen in the Deutches Tanz Film Institute as a videomaker, it is a beautiful and educational experience, I like to use my skills to

Hello everyone, my name is Aleksandar! I am 20 years old, and I am from Skopje, North Macedonia. I am currently doing my European Solidarity Corps project in Bremen, Germany, where I am volunteering for NaturKultur e.V. The first time I heard about the possibility to do a voluntary service abroad was on an Erasmus+

My Name is Katharina Guillon, I am French and lately I took part in an ESC project at the Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen. After a short term ESC project in Poland, I decided to renew the experience, but on a longer term and in a field of work I have always been interested in : audiovisual.

IT’S FULL OF REASONS IN THERE Hello, I’m Andrea and I come from Italy. After 10 months my experience as an ESC Volunteer in Bremen, Germany, has come to an end. I decided to take on this adventure due to a fierce need for a change in my life and I still remember how happy

¿Hablas español? If you are curious to read about Maria’s experiences in Bremen, you can check out her monthly blog entries in Spanish: The Beginning January 2021 February 2021 Maria is volunteering at Tobiasschule und Kindergarten e.V. and hosted on our project “From Global to Local”, financed by the European Solidarity Corps and Jugend für