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…
Hello! My name is Patricia Kalanyos, I’m 22 years old and I come from Cluj-Napoca, in Romania. I work as a massage technician and I’ve prepared a lot for my specialisation: I have a post-secondary school diploma in massage therapy and I’ve also taken many private courses. I’ve decided to Read more…
Noa, a young nature lover from Belgium, joined an European Solidarity Corps project to support the restoration of the ecosystems and the biodiversity in the Riet Vell Nature Reserve in the Ebro Delta, Spain. In this blog post, she shared her experience with us. Hi everyone! I am Noa, 23, Read more…
Between 27 and 30 November, Patricia, our new ESC volunteer from Romania, has visited us in Liège for her advance planning visit. Her time in Liège was full of activities and meetings that provided an introduction and prepared her for her imminent arrival. She visited our office, where we discussed Read more…
Hello, my name is Zoë and I’m 20. I spent 10 months in Italy with the European Solidarity Corps (ESC). I did my voluntary work at Cooperativa Margherita in Sandrigo, a village near Vicenza in northern Italy. I was looking for a project with activities linked to children and disabled Read more…
Embarking on the journey of a European Solidarity Corps volunteering project was a decision that would forever shape my life. From the moment I arrived, I knew this experience would be something special. In this article, I would like to share my incredible journey, starting from my initial fears and Read more…
Hi everybody, Mihai here. It has been a long time since I have shared my experience with you here. For those of you who did not have the chance to meet me in person, my name is Mihai, I’m 30 years old and I come from Romania. I’m currently in Read more…
Today, I, Jay, a volunteer working in a ESC project with a group of teenagers, held a workshop to raise awareness about blindness and visual impairment. This was my first experience organizing such a workshop with a young sighted audience, having previously only worked with adults. The results were surprisingly 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…
The training in which Jay and Mihai participated took place between 25th and 27th of January and involved, in total, twenty-eight volunteers. The event offered us the context to: – Evaluate our project experience till present; – Explore the challenges and our possible solutions in the project activities and experiences; Read more…