Year: 2013

My European Voluntary Service in Ukraine

  An international team of EVS volunteers My host organization is located in the city of Donetsk and is called "Alliance". Our first week here was entirely dedicated to work in the integration of the volunteers and the inter-cultural differences. We got to know the traditions and customs of…


Iliana: EVS volunteer in Spain

  European Voluntary Service in Padron It cost me seven months of project searching and sending countless CVs and motivation letters, and of course many rejects. Dear reader, if you are thinking about doing EVS you have to grant yourself with a lot of patience and positivity. That way you can…


Vote Zoya Chavdarova for “Sports Tale

Vote Zoya Chavdarova for “Sports Talent of the Public” Help Zoya to become the “Sports Talent of the Public” Zoya Chavdarova is a 21 years old wheelchair tennis player from Varna. She is participating in the new edition of “Sports Talent of the Public”, a contest organized by Eurofootball. If…


Volunteers and students in Veliko Tarnovo

  Volunteers celebrating the student’s day The last 8th of December was a special day for all the students in Bulgaria. It’s the celebration of the Студентскят празник, the student’s day. It does not matter if you are not a student anymore. The spirit always remains in you. With a group of…


EVS volunteers in the Stara Planina

EVS volunteers in the Stara Planina Last weekend I went to Pirdop with Mael-another EVS volunteer in Varna- and some other friends to climb one of the peaks of  the Stara Planina.   EVS volunteers in Pirdop One of the things I enjoy the most about being an EVS volunteer in Bulgaria is that…


Volunteers visiting the Aladzha Monastery

With some EVS volunteers and Iliana, my mentor and volunteer in Association For You, we visited the Aladzha Monastery, a medieval cave monastery 17 km away from Varna. This is one of the most unique religious constructions in Bulgaria. Volunteers in unique placesSome EVS Volunteers in Varna and…


First impressions of Marina, the new EVS volunteer in Varna

Marina is the new EVS volunteer in Association For You. A part of her tasks in Association FOR YOU , she is volunteering also in the International Relations Office of the University of Economics - Varna and wants to share with you the impressions of what a great chance is to volunteering and work…


Meeting of volunteers in Istanbul

Istanbul is one of the places I wanted to visit for a long time. Its culture, music, traditions, food, people...are so interesting and unknown to me. That´s why I decided to travel there with some other EVS volunteers. EVS volunteers in Istanbul With some other EVS volunteers we planned a trip…


Association FOR YOU organized presentations about European Voluntary Service in the University of Economics.

Association FOR YOU organized presentations about European Voluntary Service in the University of Economics. EVS presentation with volunteers in Varna   The first presentation took place the 15th of November. The 2 EVS volunteers of Association FOR YOU, Robert and Cristina, and the coordinator,…


My EVS in Slovakia Part 2

My EVS in Slovakia Part 2. Now I will tell you a little bit more about my project. I volunteer in an organization called Centrum Volneho Času - Junior (Center for leisure activities - Junior). The organization is very big and has a wide range of activities: to organize school competitions in…


Association FOR YOU and Foundation SOS- Families in risk organize sexual education training for youngsters with disabilities

  Association For You and Foundation SOS Families At Risk are developing a series of trainings on Sexual Education and Human Rights for the youngsters in Association For You. The trainings were given by staff and volunteers of Foundation SOS in the office of Association FOR YOU. The project…


My EVS in Slovakia

Regards! I am Veselina and now I'm going to tell you a little bit about my voluntary service abroad in the frame of  EVS (European Voluntary Service) in Slovakia. I will start with the first question: Why EVS? Well, because this is something that I wanted to do already since quite a long time.…


See over Seas! was a bilateral youth exchange between Bulgaria and Spain with total 16 participants. The main topic was art and culture. The objective was to promote the participation of youngsters with disabilities from two different countries in an international exchange as the opportunity to…