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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
10 reasons to become a volunteer
Hi! My name is Charlie and I am a volunteer in Timis County Youth Foundation, I’ve chosen to volunteer in this organization because it was for me a great opportunity to leave abroad and to do something concrete for other young people like me, somewhere else in the world. I work together with a team […]
Positive vibes from the community (by Yogesh Kumar)
In the 3rd week of the project, we got our positive vibes volunteer, Yogesh Kumar, back. We started working as one team rather than splitting into four groups. As a solo team, every volunteer helped his or her colleague and tried each group’s task. In this way, we tried each kind of work without getting bored by one work. However, the work was more physical, but being energised by our committed and […]
Step forward into the unknown and assume it will be brilliant
Lately, I have been thinking many times about how I want my future to be. Although things have changed a lot since the last time we could go out without a mask, and we did not have a curfew, life goes on, and we have to adapt to new circumstances. For this reason, after finishing […]
You can learn from everything, even from the worst
“Learning Patience can be a difficult experience, but once conquered, you will find life easier” – Katherine Pulsifer As a person, I was never really involved with Erasmus+ projects — I always had a preference towards projects and conferences that were made by universities and other organizations. So, when I was accepted after 4 months of waiting in the project Set […]
Instant moments by Alisa
365 or maybe a few more days passed by, but I feel it was just instant when I’ve just arrived and now it’s time to say goodbye. Say goodbye to the city that completed the warm environment for a year for me, goodbye to the organization that supported us till the end, goodbye to the youth centre that in […]
MY ESC EXPERIENCE IN TIMISOARA
I remember stepping into that huge building, Casa Tineretului. My baggage was heavy and so were my feelings, faced with the fact that I did it, I came back. It looked like nothing has changed. Dimmed lights were illuminating the walls, the echo of my steps was filling the space and the memories began to return in bursts. Happiness was mingled with anticipation and I stood in front of my decision, wondering if it was right. One year later […]