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Six months in this island have already gone and so far it has been an intense, slow but improving learning process. Thinking about the target audience who can end up reading the articles in this blog, I would...

When I first got accepted as a volunteer to come to Cyprus so to work at Hope for Children I was emotionally overwhelmed. After so many years looking for an opportunity in this sector, finally someone was giving me a chance to grow professionally...

9 months ago I did know just two things about Cyprus: that it was really small and that it was somewhere close to Malta. Spoiler: one of my two knowledges was definitely wrong. In my defense, I almost had never heard about this country in my life. When I discovered I would have left, I started to collect information and paying more attention when I heard people or radio talking about it. In this way, I began to be more conscious about the place where I was about to live for 1 year: the language, the correct geographical position, the political situation...Still, I was not able to keep expectations.  Then I arrived, and I almost immediately fell in love, before with Lefkosia, then, as soon as I had the chance to travel a little bit, with Cyprus.  

When talking about typical Cypriot food, meat seems always included in the main dishes. Many Cypriot people are surprised when they meet vegetarians as they can’t imagine a diet without pork, chicken, lamb and so on. Sometimes they sound sorry for me...

On Sunday 3 December, a delightful concert took place at the Municipal Theatre in Nicosia. The children's orchestra of Sistema Cyprus entertained the audience with classical solos and symphonies, offering an evening of serenity and positive energy.

How extraordinary is volunteering? Abroad or in our own country it doesn’t matter.. You know that you are doing something good in the world and you feel enthusiastic..   I remember my interview with Hope For Children..my anxiety and happiness when I met the other volunteers with whom I supposed to spend one year. The arrival in October at night,...

If I had to choose one word to describe my experience as volunteer in Cyprus at ‘Home for Hope’, I would say intense. It was like experiencing different worlds in one same place, because that very place found itself being the center of many different worlds. And that center is only...

During the Catholic Easter, I decided to go on a short trip with some friends. We decided to rent a car to reach some places that it would have been impossible to visit otherwise. Our trip started in Akamas, the peninsula in...

Been born in 2000 I don’t recall much of what it was like not to have everything you might need to know in the palm of your hand: I received my first smartphone already in middle school, so not be able to...

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