Heart-warming analytics from our ESC UKR projects
Our short-term ESC volunteering teams in high-priority areas projects support Ukrainian refugees and migrants as they integrate, socialize, feel empowered, and express their talents and knowledge. We understand that adolescence is already a sensitive age, and being away from familiar environments, friends, and everything they once knew makes it even harder to adapt. That’s where […]
THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS – One year after
There are always certain things in life that one would like to do, but that is not the right time for it on one side or another. I had always wanted to live a long period out of Spain (I have had other experiences abroad, but only for a few months). After one of the […]
A week of two wings (By Ayoub El fitour)
It was a week of getting ready and cheering each other on. The first wing was a preparatory group work, part and the end of last week. Week after week, we learn how to climb the mountains of adventure, our adventure is to jump in order to look into the far future. It was only […]
3 Stations – digital week window (By Ayoub El Fitour)
SURPRISES STATION The beginning of the week was full of surprises that put us to the test of self-control and prudence to continue our work and reach the next stations. It was a surprise with some of the things that we naturally encounter and how we should deal with them. VIEWS STATION It was the […]
From Agadir to Timisoara (By Ayoub El Fitour)
On my way to my first destination outside Morocco, It’s not easy to leave my beautiful country for a long time but Romania deserves it, especially for a volunteer project. Can you imagine? One of the most important stops was getting to know each other and discovering more about the organization FITT as well as […]
A day of accomplishment: +1 Youth Centre! (By Esther Ghesquiere)
On the 14th of December, the Youth Centre of Dacia exchanged the noise of construction work, with the sound of a guitar and a beautiful voice. Helped by the youth workers from FITT, the place changed its atmosphere. The opening was on! A little buffet, a workshop area, a lot of welcoming puff, and some […]
Last week of our great experience (By Linda Markus)
The fourth week began as the third had ended: with a lot of paint. Walls turned yellow, ladders werecarried around and brushes were dipped into buckets until even the last corner of the building hadthe colour of our imagination. A little later, we slowly reached a point where things we hadn’t caredabout before suddenly became […]
Our journey towards change (By Linda Markus)
We have been working now directly and indirectly on the realisation of a youth centre for three weeks. The tasks of the second week often coincided with those of the first. In concrete terms, this means that we still mainly scraped and sealed walls and removed graffiti to prepare them to be painted. At the […]
The first week of our adventure (By Linda Markus)
The first week of the Youth Centres UP 2 project (first team of international volunteers for 30 days), in which an unused heating building is turned into a centre for the youth of a neighbourhood within about a month, started with team building activities.This was followed by a shallow transition to the actual work on […]
How volunteering changes your life (6 months later)
This year started out as one of the weirdest of my life. If someone told me six months ago everything I was going to live, I would have said, without thinking, that it was not possible to happen. Going out of the comfort zone This is the first thing you experience when you decide to […]