Lucìa’s experience in Palermo, Italy Meraki, a word of Greek origin, means to put your soul, effort, creativity and love in what you do, leaving behind a piece of you somewhere. I am Lucìa, I’m 26 years old and am volunteering for Per Esempio association in Palermo, Italy. When I decided to take part in […]

I first thought of doing an EVS in December 2018 when I had decided to stop my studies. I felt as though I needed a big change in my life because I did not know what I was doing, I did not know what I exactly was working towards. Essentially, I didn’t know who I […]

What is volunteering? Volunteering is often described as an unpaid activity where someone gives their time to help a non-profit organization in the aim to improving the life of other. One of the best known benefits of volunteering is the impact on the community. But not only human community can be the target of volunteering, […]

Nune Harutyunan from Armenia tells the story of how her Erasmus voluntary experienced completely changed the way of thinking about her future. Nune did 3 months of volunteering in Sende and for her was mind-blowing the idea of digital nomads, people who are working while traveling the world.  “I thought that only way was to […]

Volunteering has a rich and traceable history in the UK, from the first medieval volunteer hospitals to “professional” volunteer organisations and support that are now operating at national and international levels. Acts of volunteering in the UK can be traced back to medieval times when churches were responsible for helping the sick and poor. Indeed, […]

My name is Marine, I’m 23 years old and I’m French. I arrived in Palermo two months and a half ago for an EVS project designed by Per Esempio Onlus and called Connection. I work mainly in three places: two associations supporting women and in a nursery. I decided to take part in this project […]

By Maëlle Julou If you had the opportunity to live abroad for some time, learn, create, enjoy with great people around you, and all of that for free, would you do it?  I couldn’t miss this opportunity, of course. I participated in a two-month European Solidarity Corps in Poland, in the city of Leszno. It […]

by Maëlle Julou This period of a health emergency, so particular and so absurd, made us realize the need, in our society, for volunteering. How emergency management would not have been the same without those people who made themselves available to the community, by their own will, making available what they could offer, to those […]

Picture by Zoe Moisidou I perceive volountarism as a “human power”­. You give somenthing and realize that, without aspectation you receive even more than what you gave. It’spriceless but with a big value. It’s based on human trust and human needs , for this reason, i think it’s an essential way to build relations. Relations […]