Every year TimeHeroes, the largest Bulgarian online platform for volunteering initiatives and opportunities, hosts an award ceremony to promote remarkable examples in volunteering. The “Arsov Sound” project, that works to adapt comic books to make them accessible to blind and partially sighted people, won an award for “original approach”. Ivan Read more…
Our ESC volunteer Patricia joined us in December 2023 to support our office team. During the past two and a half months she got to take part to our activities and get familiar with the city of Liège and a whole new culture. In her blog, she shares an update Read more…
“Komiksilnitsa”, a combination of the Bulgarian words for “comic book” and “workshop”, is a project implemented by the association “Arsov Sound”, gathering a group of passionate artists with and without visual impairments who joined forces to adapt comic books and make them accessible for blind and partially sighted people. The Read more…
In September our volunteer, Anna Czaman, was in Budapest to attend the Strategic Partnership for Inclusion (SPI) Harvesting Conference 2023, an event that gathered experienced and future Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps volunteers, as well as youth workers from organisations interested in implementing inclusive practices in their European mobility programmes. Read more…
by Ivan Karastoyanov Translated by Konstantin Pchelinski My room floor is cool, of 12 square metres, And, humpback and mute, supports firmly my bed; Above, through the window, the rising dawn scatters Gold o’er the azure sky. But what of that? What of that, outside, the dew brightly glistens With Read more…
Workshop on innovative social work practices took place in the Centre for Continuous Education in Liège where we met with approximately twenty-five students from the Practicing Educators Course. It started with a presentation of roles and responsibilities of Views representatives present at the workshop and it continued with a short Read more…
Welcome back to the final article of the “Trip of a Lifetime” series, in which I continue to provide a comprehensive account of our Interrail trip spanning more than ten cities across three countries. In the first two articles, I explained the concept of Interrail, tools we used, and ways Read more…
Welcome back to the trip of a lifetime article series in which I talk about my interrail travels. While planning a trip, you need to take several different aspects into consideration such as transportation, accommodation, food and accessibility / finding directions if you are blind as well as a rough Read more…
By Faruk Demir I don’t know about you but every once in a while, I get this itch to travel, just leave everything behind and take my white cane with me and go somewhere. Sometimes I have a specific destination in my mind, sometimes I don’t. But this time the Read more…
By Anna Czaman Have you ever been to Italy? Have you ever wanted to experience the Southern-Italian way of living with no filter on? Let me tell you about my latest and very first Italian adventure I have experienced thanks to the Erasmus+ Program. The 19th day of June was Read more…