EVS 2018/2019

In this period, many organizations help migrants in their search for a better life, “Hope For Children” is one of them. “Hope for Children” is taking care of unaccompanied minors since 2014.  I had the priviledge to volunteer in HFC for 6 months. I listened...

09/11/1989 Maybe the date won’t ring a bell in your head, but for sure the name “Berlin Wall” will.  The 9th of November ‘89 is the date when that wall started to fall down, hit by hammers and by the feelings of all the people who...

When I arrived in Cyprus I could never imagine that the island was dominated by Venetians and even now there are evidences of this achievement. I discovered that Cyprus was an overseas possession of the Republic of Venice from 1489, when the Independent Kingdom...

When I first got accepted as a volunteer to come to Cyprus so to work at Hope for Children, I immediately started to think about what I could bring to the project.  I am familiar with organizing different types of leisure and educative activities for...

I am a migrant. I work with migrants.  I flew to Cyprus from Spain; but I am not that kind of migrant.  I am a black migrant and I work with black migrants (with Syrians, Palestine's, Pakistanis migrants) I was born in a small African country known...

Cyprus - I had to look in the map to know exactly where this country was. Days before my departure I immersed myself into an internet search about Cyprus.  I learned that the official language is Greek, that the island is divided and that there...

If you choose to spend one year in another country as an EVS, as I did, you definitely know that what you expect is not always what you find. No one is here for the same reasons and no one is looking for the...

What does it mean to be committed in promoting and protecting children’s rights? How can everyone contribute to this purpose? “Hope for Children” CRC Policy Center, the hosting organisation where my EVS project took place, is engaged in working together with national, regional and international...

On the night that I arrived in Cyprus, the first impression that I had was completely different from the memories of the day spent in Limassol with my family, back in 1997. When you are a child the perceptions of places, colours, and perfumes...

The first time I saw the island was when we were landing in the middle of the night during the first days of September. The lights and the dark sea made my heart beat so fast as when a new adventure is beginning. Expectations,...