VOLUNTEERING ABROAD

I start my travel on the 14th September 2020 to Blanes, Spain. With the plane I flew to Barcelona and from there I took a bus to Blanes. Arrived there, Josep the manager of the Botanical garden picked me up from the bus station and drove me to the apartment. There I met the other […]

I (Ludwig) arrived on Chios Island on the 15th of September. On arrival I got picked up by our Mentor Markus who drove me to the volunteer’s house. There I got a warm welcome from the other volunteers who were already there. In the first days our coordinator Dimitrios explained the project to me. Because

Reflecting on October and the On-Arrival Training Hello everyone 😀 I have had 2 German Language classes so far and I was so nervous to teach but I had a really positive experience and now look forward to them. My class is very active and excited to learn German 🙂 The big event this month

Napoli… so far.   I am writing this looking at vesuvius. Since day one, no day has passed, that I haven’t sat on the balcony, listened to the neighbors chat, sing, play music…you can always feel the energy of the volcano in this mystical town. About eight weeks have passed and I fell deeply in

The first month in Zagreb, Croatia Hello everyone 😀 This is going to be the blog post about our experience as volunteers in September and the other volunteers will focus on a different topic for their blogs, so watch out for that 😉 Our first official task as Volunteers was the Festivol 3.0 which was

Irgendwie ist alles anders gekommen, als geplant. Mein ESC in Beirut hatte gerade an Fahrt gewonnen, ich hatte meine ersten eigenen Projekte, war in verschiedenen NGOs eingespannt und viele gute Freund*innen gefunden. Ich hatte mein eigenes Schulprojekt, habe einen Projektantrag für ein UNICEF-Projekt mitgeschrieben, habe mich mit vielen anderen Gruppen vernetzt und bin einem Chor

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