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 […]
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 […]
Youth centre: last week of work (by Syed Musaib Hussain)
We are in the last week and everyone is active. The team is working hard to accomplishing the finishing part of the Building Renovation. The finishing part of the youth centre includes painting the walls, decoration of inside walls, cleaning all the floors and gardens and fixing the scratched and painted windows. The FITT 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 […]
SHALL WE GO? –LET’S GO! Change your life
Sometimes, I wonder how something as simple as a single question can change your life that much. -Shall we go? –Let’s go! This is how my conversation with my friend Miriam ended the day we decided to go somewhere else to be volunteers. I have always been a girl who has thought that we all […]
The monthly journal – Spring at its finest – April 2021
This month, the ESC volunteers enjoyed spring at its finest. They took advantage of the great weather and had picnics, were on treasure hunts, city tours, organised and attended various online and offline events. In a word, they weren’t bored at all. April started with a great learning opportunity for the volunteers. They had the chance to organise […]
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 […]