Hi, I am Hakan Kırlıdurmuş. I have been accepted to the aid project for students who do not have good conditions in Craiova, Romania. Our goal was to go to high schools or schools, collect donations (clothes, hygiene and school items, etc.) from students and transfer them to the other students. My first days were […]
After the end of my university, I gave myself a year to travel, explore, and realize my dreams before graduate studies. The most logical way to evaluate this time and reach my dreams was to join the ESC program. For this, I say without exaggeration, I have made more than 80 applications. I was only […]
European Solidarity Corps is at its core about volunteering, contributing to the society, making a positive impact on the local community. It’s also about gaining new experience, challenging yourself, growing as a person, making new friends and creating new memories. However, undoubtedly one of the most exciting aspects about being an ESC volunteer, is the […]
I just realised that reaching my 7th month in Turkey makes my ESC the longest stay abroad in my life (the previous longest one was half a year on Erasmus in Belgium). That is why I decided to make a small summary of how I changed during this remarkable period of time – and most […]
About two months ago, our colleagues from the Partnership Department approached us with an idea of creating a digital magazine. The magazine- which first issue was published in the beginning of May- is a joint initiative of the Partnership Department and Pixel Team. Together, they set out to create a monthly magazine which would highlight […]
It has been exactly two months since I took part in the last association event before the quarantine. It was Pi Youth Association’s 6th birthday (14th of March), and it already was marked with social distancing and anxiety about what was to come. Since that day, I have been working from home. This time was […]
I was accepted to a project about homeless people. I was preparing breakfast for them, sometimes I was cooking and finding fun activities for them. Although my project did not come out as I imagined, it was nice at all. While I was searching about the consequences regarding my departure from the project until the […]
Our mid-term training from the Turkish National Agency was supposed to take place in the middle of March in Ankara but got cancelled last-minute due to the official announcement of the first Coronavirus case in Turkey. Since we were both excited for our little trip, the decision- although completely understandable- came as a disappointment. We’ve […]
Today, 14th of April, marks exactly one-month anniversary of Pi Youth Association’s decision to close the main office and to enable all the employees and volunteers to work from home. Back then, this decision seemed merely as a wise precaution to take- the coronavirus had just reached Turkey and the number of infections were still […]
It has been two weeks since I wrote a post about dealing with the coronavirus outbreak while being far from home. Back then, the situation was pretty different: we were just about to start working from home, the virus had just appeared in Turkey back then and we were more concerned about our families back […]
