Volunteering Stories

  • EVS stories: On Personal Development – by IN4EVS

    • 16 February 2018
    • Posted by: Team for Youth Association
    • Category: Volunteering Stories
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    Inma (SP): This is the second hardest blog entry I’ve had to write… maybe because it requires from me a view of all these months, what I did, what I learned. It’s also hard because it’s at the end of the project, and I realize that the time is gone. One of the fields I

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  • EVS Stories: What have I learnt during the project? – by Skaiste

    • 13 February 2018
    • Posted by: Team for Youth Association
    • Category: Volunteering Stories
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    I have spent almost a year in Romania and this year taught me practical things. First and the main skill I came here for was public speaking. I felt like I needed to improve it, so I came to the project in which the main activity is to make public presentations. Second, I got teaching

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  • EVS Stories: Skills trough EVS

    • 2 February 2018
    • Posted by: Team for Youth Association
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    What are the skills that you can get by doing a long-term volunteering stage in another country?
    We asked the volunteers from IN4EVS to share with us what skills they think they obtained during these last months of activities in Baia Mare.

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  • EVS stories: Back to the past (III) – by Jorge M.E.

    • 29 January 2018
    • Posted by: Team for Youth Association
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    Whenever you end an experience as intense as the European Voluntary Service, you feel that you left a part of yourself behind when you returned home. And that happens because we all have grown internally as persons during the course of all those months living abroad.

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  • EVS Stories: Returning home (III) – by Rosa L.

    • 18 December 2017
    • Posted by: Team for Youth Association
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    My EVS ended this November. I moved back to Vienna from Baia Mare. Things are the same as I left them. I do not think I changed a lot in those eight months, and neither did my home country. Now I have memories of Romania, learned a few new things and got a certificate that may be useful when applying for a job.

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  • EVS Stories: Salutări din Długopole! – de Ștefania C.

    • 12 December 2017
    • Posted by: Team for Youth Association
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    Prima oară când mi-a vorbit cineva despre EVS aveam 23 de ani. Eram într-un tren spre Cluj și în același vagon cu mine se afla un cuplu de francezi. Mergeam toți la Electric Castle.

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