Hello, I’m Alpay İlhan. I have had more than one volunteer experience in our country for years. Therefore, I know the principles of volunteering pretty well. But before I started my project, I was very worried as I had no experience of volunteering in an another country or living abroad before. I contacted with Pi […]
Taking its name from the combination of the words “Youth” and “Pi”, Youppi is with you digitally and free of charge with its rich and beautiful content. 7th issue of Youppi includes the following sections: Interview with the Office Team (Sadık Demirbağ) Interview with Pixel Team (Mustafa Emre Okyaz) Foreign Partners (NaturKultur E.V. – Germany) […]
My name is Ömer Karabacak, I have a long-life story but here I just want to share my ‘ESC’ experience with you. After graduating from university, I wanted to go on a long adventure abroad, after researching I found that the best way was to participate in ESC projects. We had the opportunity to both […]
In the last semester of my university, I came across the idea of participating in an ESC project by chance and I did some research on this subject. I went to the Polish city of Lodz in the summer for Erasmus Internship and had the opportunity to meet with a few volunteering friends there. With […]
It’s 5th October and I am already starting to write this post, even if it’s supposed to be published on 15th October, but from experience of previous stays abroad I know that the last days of my stay in Turkey will be pretty crazy. I will be probably running around to tackle some unexpected stuff […]
I find it very hard to believe that I have been living in Turkey for almost one year now. Time flew by incredibly fast which is a bit surprising, considering how many things happened and how much our lives have changed during the last 12 months. Because we’ll soon be returning to our country (on […]
As the dream of every young person living in Turkey, I also wanted to travel to Europe and even to live there for a while. When I couldn’t get what I wanted from the ERASMUS exams of my university, I started looking for other ways and I learned that you can work in volunteer projects […]
This month I have had the chance to take part in the first big event organized by Pi Youth Association after the COVID-19 outbreak. It was the first Conference of Local Youth Associations Network, an event putting together youthworkers from the whole of Turkey (for the reasons of safety, the number of participants was limited […]
This month I had the honour of being featured in Pi Youth Association’s digital magazine, Youppi. Not only did I give an interview (which turned out to be super long, so I don’t blame you for not reading the whole thing), but I also had the opportunity to design my own pages. One of the […]
Hello again! If you have followed my previous blogs, you should know by now that I am a rather outgoing person, with a strong need of being part of the community. I expected that after the time of COVID-19 hibernation the coming back will be reasuring and bringing peace at heart. And it did to […]
