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…
For the last two weeks, we – Jay and Mihai – had carried out activities for and with visually impaired young people. These activities were focused on understanding and raising awareness about young people with visual disabilities. Together with La Baraka AISBL and Jean Boets Highschool, young people had the Read more…
Dear readers, it has been a long time since I shared with you my experience in Liège with VIEWS International. As I was stating in a former issue of this newsletter, my concerns were related to the French language, since communication is very important in this field. Fortunately, I noticed Read more…
Three months ago I moved to Belgium for a volunteering experience abroad with the European Solidarity Corps, my first experience. I had already done volunteering before, in Italy, working as an au pair operator for disabled people in a social network that was born in my city, but then I Read more…
The On Arrival Training (OAT) that Jay & I took part in took place between 17 & 22 October 2022 in Desdelheide Youth Center, south of Brussels in Flemish region. I know what you are thinking. Why would I go to an OAT organised by the Flemish National Agency – Read more…
Hello everybody and welcome to a new article about volunteering. My name is Mihai, I am from Romania and I am the new volunteer of VIEWS International. Where should I start from? My coming here was smoothly organised with the help of both hosting and sending organisations. Fortunately my flight Read more…
Hello readers, I want to introduce myself. My name is jay, I am a 23 years old blind girl and I come from Italy. At the end of September I will move to Liège, Belgium, for a nine-months ESC volunteering project, coordinated by Views International. Last week I had my Read more…
This is Faruk reporting from Liège, Belgium and I can tell you that everything is quiet on the western front, except for the activities I have been taking part in my ESC project. I feel like I just arrived here but it has been an unbelievably busy period of four Read more…