The authorities are encouraging us to stay at home during the coronavirus crisis. Staying at home is the socially responsible thing to do, and by doing it we are already helping those that are most vulnerable. But can we do something else to contunue #livingforothers? Yes, we can! Stay tuned, IYC’s instagram account will be publishing #14Days4Others challenges for the coming 2 weeks. Let’s spread the good!…
Due to the coronavirus crisis we are cancelling all the volunteering projects until the authorities retire the recommendation of reducing social contact to the minimum possible. However there are many ways in which each of us can keep the #LivingForOthers vision from home: keep smiling, help those around you, call your friends and be a source of peace for them. Now that direct contact is to be avoided, let’s be one in heart. “Light up the darkness”.…
My name is Keni and I am from Helsinki!. During summer, I have been to Gambia with International Youth Cooperation. The first stop was Barcelona, where we stayed for one night to depart on the next day to Banju. Once over there, our main duty was renovating a school, although we also imparted lessons, organised some activities with the children and distributed school supplies and furniture that we have imported in a container from abroad. We were 10 volunteers!…
“Helping Hands for Europe” (HH4E) is a project that involves 48 people from Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The main objective of the project is to empower its participants by generating a process of learning and development within the framework of international cooperation and organizing volunteering initiatives. The project takes part mostly through 3 phases: a local preparation stage, where we prepare locally social initiatives and take part in volunteering activities a Youth Exchange in Budapest from…
