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My first initiative project idea came to me when I first came to Laagna library (which is the closest to our kindergarten) and noticed a wide range of children literature

Eight months after arriving to Estonia I decided it was time for me to prepare a special day for everyone in my kindergarten, parents, children and even teachers and the

„I wanted something different, to work with children and to be in a totally new environment. As a result of a brief research, I figured out that there is a

In the middle of my service I started with the project about emotional education called “The colour monster”. It is about one monster who has all the colors mixed and

Irina Nikulina is a youth worker based in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. She works in a youth organisation SFERA Movement helping hundreds of young people to find their way to international

I am Anastasiia from Russia and I worked in Acrobatic and Circus School in Tallinn, Estonia for 12 months. As part of my volunteering service, I decided to promote healthy

28.09.2018 was event for children “Around the World in 80 minutes”, where they had a travel card and traveled between tables, where were represented different countries. My name is Sofia

It was difficult for me to come up with an idea for an Initiative Project, but in the end it might have been because I was trying to come up

On the 28th of September, a week before the end of my project, I cooked a national dish in the kindergarten where I’d been volunteering for 6 months. This dish

Our initiative project is a one day trip to Soomaa national park with a group of youngsters from Abja-Paluoja, which was planed by me in cooperation with Coretin Bideau, a

My name is Antonia and I am doing my 12-months voluntary service in a kindergarten in Võru in South Estonia. As my initiative project I organized a postcard exchange between

My name is Nefeli Vontella and I am from Greece. I did my EVS in Tallinn, at the kindergarten Tallinna Kullatera Lasteaed for 9 months. During my EVS, I had

I’m Carla from Germany. I am 20 years old and I am doing my voluntary service in a kindergarten in Võru in South Estonia. My idea was to establish a

Nefeli is an European Voluntary Service volunteer from Greece who is working in Tallinna Kullatera Kindergarten. On the 21st of April I visited the Viljandi Avatud Noortetuba youth center in

In December I had the opportunity to connect traveling with helping some of my EVS friends and spreading some kind of German Christmas spirit in Estonia. On the 7th of

The EVS is an amazing opportunity to go abroad and get to know another country through other eyes. You can learn a new language and travel around the world. And

In the following I will describe our initiative project, which included doing handicraft work with disabled people and took place in the last months of our voluntary service during July

My name is Sabrina Gollmer. I am a volunteer from Germany and I am currently making an EVS in the Youth Center and Culture Center in Abja-Paluoja. To record the

Katerina is an European Voluntary Service volunteer from Greece who is working in Imastu Residential School. In December, she was invited to Paikuse Kindergarten Mesimumm to organise – together with

Sofia is an European Voluntary Service volunteer from Ukraine who is working in Imastu Residential School. During Christmas-time she decided to visit another volunteer’s working place, a social centre in

A volunteer that works in a Kindergarten near Pärnu hosted a World Christmas Evening. She invited volunteers to do some games/handcrafts/traditional Christmas things what we are doing in our countries

My name is Viktoria Gurskaya, I’m from Russia. I’ve spent a year working as an EVS volunteer in a nice Estonian town Kohila. People I worked with became my Estonian

“It should be an event for the children, where they have fun and also learn something about agriculture. Especially in big cities like Tallinn children do not have so many

This week we’ll get to know 19-year- old Alexander Schmitt from Germany. He left his small German town to do his EVS in the youth center of Tabasalu. Did you

This week we will meet Araksya Martirosyan from Armenia. She spent her year of EVS in a kindergarten in Võru where she was enjoying her work and the beautiful lake

I am Esther, an EVS volunteer from Austria who is working in SA Perekodu, an institution of different departments for children with various mental and physical disabilities which is situated

How much do you know about orienteering? Competitors who came to Tartu, Southern Estonia, in June definitely know a lot as they got there for the World Orienteering Championship (or

10.06.2017. It was a beautiful sunny day in a little village near to Tartu named Koosa. People came together to celebrate the village’s 435th birthday. Me, Hrispime, an EVS volunteer

“So now I thought it would be interesting to get to know the other side of Europe. Estonia is so interesting because it is a Nordic country and it is

“Moreover, I got the opportunity to try out new things, I probably would have never done, if I hadn’t done the voluntary service, for example doing climbing or cross-country skiing.”

I’m EVS volunteer living in Estonia since September 2016 and working in Viljandi Open Youth Centre (Viljandi Avatud Noortetuba). During last 9 months of working there it was very creative,

EstYES EVS volunteer from Georgia, Nana Burtchuladze, organised the Culture Week in Tallinna Kuristiku Gümnaasium. It involved seven EVS volunteers from different countries, who all presented their country and culture

“When I arrived to Võru I met my supervisor and mentor who – as a first thing – hugged me, so I understood already then that not all Estonians are

This week we are going to meet Tetiana Novatska who is from the South of Ukraine. The 24 year old decided to do EVS in Tallinn the project, where she