Volunteering impact: from Northern Ireland to Tanzania Written by Ruska LandyMay 2017 Tools For Solidarity (TFS) has three basic aims which I will use to talk about the organisation’s promotion of values like solidarity and inclusion and how what I do is having an impact on the lives of people in my local community and further…
Balkan Myth Busters Written by Gaia KosovoMarch 2017 During ten days in March, a group of 28 youngsters from Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria and Germany has gathered in Velika Hoca, Kosovo for a Youth Exchange that is part of the 2 years long Balkan Myth Busters project coordinated by VCV Serbia and GAIA Kosovo supported…
YUWG and Social Inclusion Written by Vera NikolovaNovember 2016 Social Inclusion work continues to be a focus of the Youth and Unemployment Working Group this autumn in Bulgaria, where 14 experienced coordinators and activists from SCI Italy, SCI Catalunya, CVS – Bulgaria, VCV, CID, SCI Hellas, SVIT – Ukraine, Zavod Voluntariat – SCI Slovenia and Utilapu…
Meeting for Refugee Crisis in Greece Written by Stella ElmatzoglouAugust 2016 A few weeks ago, in a big room somewhere among the narrow streets of Barcelona, almost 20 people highly involved with SCI got together in order to talk and exchange beliefs and ideas regarding the refugee crisis in Greece. We referred to the chronological order of…
Dust under the carpet Written by Lorraine Charbonnier and Barbara Casas BarrachinaFebruary 2016 Delhi is the world’s second most populous megacity after Tokyo. Coming from much smaller European cities (Torino and Barcelona), we have been amazed day after day by all the diverse ingredients of Delhi, thousands of cars, people, cows, dogs, trash, smells, shops, street…
Today I am happy Volunteer! Written by BakaryDecember 2015 I started running a lot – first alone, then with other people. They noticed my physical condition and invited me to play football in the first team of the city. Then my life finally began to change. But, precisely in this period of major change, there came…
How to overcome the post-workcamps blues Written by Marta Palau,September 2015 We don’t know how it is in your part of the world, but here in Antwerp it is getting colder. Trees are changing their leaves, the days are shorter and sunny days seem far away… We can’t help but already miss that time of the…
An Unforgettable Month Written by Angela AleksandrovskaFebruary 2015 They asked me “How do you feel now after one month on the internship?” and I didn’t know what to answer… So many feelings collected in one place I just need so much time to describe them. It’s something impossible to forget, something impossible to believe in, extraordinary,…