The EuroAsi - “From Europe to Asia: Capitalizing Experience in Youth Work,” a 23-month long project under the Erasmus+ co-funded by the European Commission and coordinated by TDM 2000 International has come to its final loop of evaluation in the historic city of Cagliari, island Region of Sardinia, Italy from September 16-19, 2016. Back in [...]
Summer is my favorite time of the year. Yes, I am one of those summer gals who love the 3s – sun, sand and the sea. My summer in the Philippines (March to May) has always been awesome and when I received the news of me going to Italy for EVS, I was ecstatic because [...]
It’s already the first week of August; and one month has passed since I arrived here in Braga. While writing this, I am sitting at a nearby cafe in our place sipping a cup of coffee. Portuguese people really love espresso so much, but I prefer mine with milk. The bell rang, and it [...]
On our first day in Metlika, we were told that we had to think of a project to work on during our EVS term. As we learned, a project was something or a series of things we had to do on our EVS term to contribute to the place and facilitate the exchange of skills [...]
I am glad that I was finally able to take part in the arrival training that took place in Braga from 14th to 19th June 2016. To me, it was not an arrival training. Instead, it was a good-bye training as it occured two weeks before I return to Bali, Indonesia. Four participants repsenting Indonesia [...]
On the 2nd month of our EVS, we had our EVS On-Arrival Training which is usually given at the beginning of an EVS term to orient the volunteers of the program and equip them with the necessary knowledge and skills to make the most of their EVS experience. The training consists of 4 days [...]
In between our first three weeks here, once in a while, we would be going to the river Kolpa to make some preparations for the Kresovanje, which is a yearly tradition all over Slovenia of lighting up bonfires on the 30th of April. In Metlika, this is organized by Kud Plac. In preparation, we cleared [...]
"Ciao attuti, sono Daniel è mi amico Reza, siamo da Indonesia, piacere di conoscerti" is our first Italian sentence in the morning class at Liceo Ginnasio Statale Giovanni Siotto Pintor - Cagliari. Me, Reza, Marina and Marco attend to final year student class before they went to university. I'm so excited because they are really enthusiast to hear our introduction about Indonesia, [...]
Months have passed and lots of work has been done. The pictures of the latest modules and the stories from my friends, colleagues and partners that have been conducting them in the last months still make me smile. And finally my time comes again to give my contribution to the EUROASI project. This time, not [...]
Humanitarian workers from the Board of Directors to Staff and Volunteers are often faced with stress and demands of the community they served. Personally, I have experienced exhuastion at work, emotionally, physically and mentally, joining the EuroAsi Training has been very helpful. I like the module on Human Resources especially. Taking the test on personality [...]