Sharing stories and cultures overcoming language barriers: read about Ifigeneia’s evs experience with My CommUNITY project.

Seeing things as children do: this is Simona’s evs experience with kindergarten children in Spain.

I have learned not just the Italian language, but also technical skills in graphic design, photography, editing and video editing: Alejandra EVS experience.

This great experience in Sicily has changed my life: this is Gergely Able Like You 3 EVS experience working with people with disabilities.

Michele, a young entrepreneur from Sicily, has successfully completed his exchange in Spain thanks to StartUp project within the framework of EYE programme. Read his experience!

Emiliano Sborgia tells us his experience to increase his competences and acquire skills during his Erasmus for young entrepreneurs exchange.

Beeing a volunteer is stepping out of your comfort zone: AnaIsabel opens about her evs experience in Palermo with the Able Like You III project.

I arrived in Hanoi about 6 months ago. I had the most dramatic, exciting, fulfilling, rewarding adventure I ever imagine I would have.

Here is Carla’s EVS experience in La Fraternità in support of people with mental disabilities with Able Like You III project.

Thanks to EVS we can get many skills we’ve never thought existed before: here is Mathilde’s evs experience with Culturopolis.

Doing a European Volunteering Service means to open a window to a new experience: read now Judit evs experience with Able Like You III.

“CESIE just seemed like one big family”. Allira’s intership experience.

In life, when you start to face difficult moments, and you can’t find any more solutions, the only thing left to do, is to leave.  To make it clearer, I was looking for a way to escape the reality in which I lived, and I thought that this opportunity may work to…

” I was really useful and I gave a smile to those who really needed it through one of my most primordial passions: the BICYCLE”. Antonio’s EVS experience.

Birth, beautiful childhood, war, school, first love, education, diploma, first jobs … in a time,  that seems to me really fast. After only a few snows and hot summers in front of me is the opportunity to get out of the frame is the classic standard of education and…

I’m Dima Wehbe, 23, from Lebanon. I was totally ignorant about the migration crisis in Europe until I became part of it through my 9-months EVS project in Palermo, Italy. My project revolved around  supporting migrants through non-formal education. I constantly strive…

Before coming to Palermo, I was studying and working in Paris in the field of cultural and social projects. A friend of mine, who had done an EVS in Albania told me his experience and I found it as an excellent opportunity to change my life abroad and grow in the…

Ciao a tutti! My name is Zoli and I’m from Hungary. I’m 25 years old and I’m volunteering now in Palermo. After I finished university in Budapest I applied for a voluntary service at CESIE. I was selected in October 2015 and finally I arrived here in January 2016. I…

I completely changed my daily life six months ago. I remember how scared I was when I put my feet on the ground of Sicily. People are scared of unknown and unpredictable. I was one of them, but fears wasn’t only feeling what I experienced. High level of excitement and…

I knew about EVS opportunity since age 26 when I started working in an association of Madrid that send and receive European volunteers. I started as a mentor, then I was responsible and EVS coordinator. So I met CESIE, exchanging volunteers and millions of emails for…

Few months ago, I took the last chance to do an EVS experience seen I was 30 years. And the first thing that came to my mind is that there is no age to learn, and there are many different ways to learn. I see how efficient can be to learn by doing. In this EVS, I’m…

I´m writing this report  after 13 days from the end of my fantastic experience as a Volunteer with the feeling of melancholy, because now all the memories are scrolling down in my brain and I miss that time. In this six month I had what I expected when I decided to…

Per me l’esperienza SVE è stata fantastica. È stata molto costruttiva e direi anche illuminante. Prima di tutto perché ogni singolo giorno sembrava essere circondato da una sorta di magia, in un modo o nell’altro; ma anche perché alla fine ho apprezzato pure i piccoli disagi, quelli che succedono solo in alcuni momenti che sono inevitabili in un’esperienza che dura cinque mesi.

I was born in Europe, but I am feeling daughter of this earth. When I was a child I dreamed about countries around the world several times and I imagined to move from my home with an essential backpack, to board a ship and to land somewhere. Probably, too much…

I arrived in Bhubaneswar (India) full of fears, uncertainties, everything around me was unknown but with the curiosity of a little girl on her first day of school.

“It’s time to do something useful and I love to do it“ that was my simple motivation to ask to be part of (Able like you III) project with CESIE organisation. I am Tasneem Fareed, I am 26 years old and I am volunteering in “coop. La Fraternità” which works with…

Hi! My name is Rocío and I am from Alicante (Spain). I am carrying out my EVS in Palermo, Sicily. I find the experience that I am acquiring from this EVS really important. I am 26 years old and this is the first time I travel to a foreign country, living and working…

Some time ago I arrived to Palermo with my backpack and all of my energy in order to initiate a nine-month European voluntary project. This project is called “Able like you 3” and me and other volunteers offer our dedication in many centres for people who are disabled…

I decided to apply for an EVS opportunity in France after two years of working experience which takes me to a period that could be considered as “interior crises”. I thought that the EVS project could be a good opportunity to make new experiences towards volunteering,…

I am Ye Wu from China, an EVS volunteer hosted by CESIE in Palermo (Italy) within the project Planting Cities (Erasmus +, KA2 – Capacity Building in the field of youth). Before I came here, I was attending university in China and I always wanted to challenge myself…

The training course “Absense of War is not Peace” took place in Setúbal, Portugal, from 3-9 May 2016. It gathered 24 youth workers, youth leaders and people that works with youth from Portugal, Armenia, Italy, Georgia, Poland, Moldova, Egypt, Luxembourg, Sweden,…

EVS is a great experience that everyone should enjoy at least once in life. It is an unique possibility to get in touch with a new culture, to know different point of views and to meet many new people from very different backgrounds, with different religions and…

My name is Daniele, I am 25 years old. My hometown is Pescara, a city in Abruzzo region, central part of Italy. I spent my European Voluntary Service experience in Lisbon, Portugal. I choose Portugal because I am fascinated by its culture and history, furthermore I…

Da tecnico sarei stato pronto a lunghe sessioni d’aula e sviluppo applicazioni; ma l’approccio learning by doing mi ha permesso di scoprire (e riscoprire) le mie capacità.

I think that some sentences are not enough to explain all emotions and experiences lived during the youth exchange “Stand up for you MED”, which took place at Marsa, near Tunis, from the 4 to the 10 March 2016. The young participants were from different Mediterranean…

Before my arrival in Doboj I did not know a lot about Bosnia and Herzegovina and everything I knew was from television during the conflicts in 90s. In addition, I did not know about the existence of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina where Doboj is located. I…

During the training course “Multimedia for Inclusion” organized by “Vi Pratar Ryskaho” I had the chance to do so many things, but there are three things that come to my mind that I consider were the most valuable. First of all, I had the chance of meeting new people….

Testimony by Giulia Caponeri and Mattia Ceccarelli, volunteers for SCN (Servizio Civile Nazionale – Italian Service Civil) of the project I.N.D.I.A. The first time we went to Bhadrak, we were curious. Curious to know those women with colorful saris: we imagined them…

The Youth in Action Programme of the European Commission, action 4.3, aims at supporting youth workers’ mobility and exchange, with a view to promoting the acquisition of new skills and competences in order to enrich their professional profile. My name is Letizia and,…

The report of Chiara, a Italian volunteer in Senegal with the EVS project Voices from around the world III. “Entering a new world is like entering a mystery which can hide many labyrinths, depths and enigmas” Arriving is a long journey. The ship leaves Dakar at night,…

From Palermo to the heart of west Africa. The voice of Maria Francesca, EVS volunteer.

The reports of our volunteers who live a volunteering experience through the European Voluntary Service in faraway countries (SVE project – Voices From Around the World III), not only for kilometers, but also for culture and traditions. The close and extended…

Reports from our volunteers through the EVS volunteer experience living in distant countries, not only for miles, but also for culture and traditions.

More than 10 months ago, I started my EVS in Palermo, Sicily. Last March I was sitting…

From 20th January to 20th July last year, after having successfully passed…

The following publication is our volunteer Alberto Biondo’s own account; he has been in Senega…

The exhibition “A Bridge to Shangri-La” (30 shots from Nepal) is organized by Andrea Vacha (an ex EVS volunteer who has been in Nepal for five months due to aln project CE.SIE “Voices from Around the World II”) and Mario Bianco (geologist who has worked in Nepal as a…