There are no EVS volunteers coming if there are no organizations to host them. Starting from this obvious statement, Ecological Centre from Sremski Karlovci invited Ti u akciji (supported by Javier, Spanish volunteer staying for his project in Bucarest) for an info session.
We came a bit earlier to have our picnic-lunch (warming up before EVS Picnic day after) sitting in the meadow, in the quiet surrounding, with the fresh breeze from Danube as a main attraction. After eating, we took a walk around the main points of Sr. Karlovci, among them Dvorska Bashta, to check the effects of the cleaning action that took place few weeks ago. It was performed by the participants of “Youth for Nature” Youth Exchange, organized by Ana Teresa. Fortunately the action has a long-lasting effect.
After short visit to the local playground, the time had come to start main point of our visit. The info session was attended by few participants, fortunately very motivated and already familiar with Youth in Action Program. We tried some non formal education, introduced the participants to the culture shock theory and ways of using it for mutual benefit of the organization and the volunteer. Our idea was to focus on the perspective on EVS volunteer coming to the organization (not only to make our work easier;), but mainly to stress the perspective that is sometimes not considered important enough by organizations hosting volunteers). We keep our thumbs crossed for the EVS project in Karlovci and already are looking forward for next meeting! Especially if again it would be followed by the delicious pancakes prepared by Miki from the Eco Centre.
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