EVS 2018/2019

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...

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,...

Curious enough I have been craving for cultural shocks since I came to Cyprus. Before arriving in spring of 2017, I was under the impression that Romania and Cyprus don’t have too many common traits, but I was deeply mistaken, as I was soon...

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...

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...

Before talking about my experience at “Hope For Children” CRC Policy Center I need to go back at the moment when I chose to be part of this project, the moment when I read about it and when I decided that, maybe, I could...

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...

For many their humanity has been reduced to statistics and numbers about migration, for me they are children. One year ago, when my family and friends congratulated me on my brave choice and asked me why I took the decision to spend one-year volunteering...

The real essence of this experience is not taking but giving. It is almost impossible to put into words the importance of giving to people so to see something changing in this world. But if there is something that I understood in all these...

What is the biggest plus of the voluntary service? The people. The ones that took care of you and devoted their time when life decided that you were too happy lately; The ones that preferred to keep a reasonable distance from everything you had done or...