As part of the ESC journey, me and my fellow volunteer, Martyna, are supporting the office team in looking for partnerships for Erasmus+ projects. Although I have had quite a rich volunteering experience before coming to Turkey (I have been involved in NGOs in my country for 10 years now), my European Solidarity Corps stay […]
In the second week of December Barbara and me had the privilege to take part in the on-arrival training in Ankara which was organised by the Turkish National Agency.The main goal of this event is to welcome all the new volunteers and adapt them into the new environment as well as to equip them in […]
Me and Martyna arrived to Izmir on 20th October from Warsaw, Poland to start our yearly adventure with European Solidarity Corps (previously called European Voluntary Service). We both never learned Turkish before and have never been to Izmir previously. Already on the second day of our activity we went with a group of local volunteers […]
It was my last year in University. I always felt the need to direct my life. I was feeling mixed emotions such as fear and worries about my future. I knew that I had to start to have a business life but working from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., rules, laws, procedures… Even thinking about […]
Amazing experience by FERSO and Erasmus + in Grotniki, Poland for 24 participants from different countries and backgrounds. A group of people from 8 different countries; Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Malta, Poland, Republic of North Macedonia, Spain, Turkey took a part in a training project in a lovely village of Lodz, Poland and as Turkish team, […]
Our AGH-108 volunteer Hilal in Denmark shares her experiences on the volunteer project that started in Copenhagen… There was one thing I kept repeating when I started my EVS life in Copenhagen. The hardest will be the beginning. Previously, I had changed houses, cities and jobs many times, I was floating around. I was very […]
I am now an EVS volunteer in Vienna and the main volunteering activity in my project is working in the office. However, thanks to my host institution Grenzenlos, I had the chance to observe and learn about a different type of volunteering activity; labor camps. I had never heard of these camps until I started […]
We pass by homeless people every day, but don’t really notice them. However, there are more than 1 thousand people without their own roof in Kaunas city. Some of them find comfort in Kaunas Archdiocese Caritas day centre “Ateik ir sušilk“. Volunteer from Turkey – Musa Hüseyinli joined the team few months ago. He meets […]
Hello Ece, You received support from the Pi Youth Association, as your sending organization and joined an EVS project in Iceland. You came back to Turkey from this 12-month project in September 2018. We would like to share your story with other friends in order to have a little chat with you, giving, at the […]
I was not believing in myself… But I made it with a seven-kilo metal leg. I would like to talk to you about my success story. I learned pretty late that Pi Youth Association was on of the most active organizations in our country in the field of Erasmus Plus programs and youth’s rights and […]
