Webinar on Humanitarian Volunteering (September 10)

Would you like to know what humanitarian volunteering abroad is really like? What does a volunteer experience over the course of several months, what challenges do they face, and what can such an experience offer them? That’s exactly what our online webinar, “Humanitarian Volunteering Through the Eyes of European Youth,” will cover. Our former volunteers from Spain and Portugal will share their personal experiences from their time in Uganda and Serbia. […]
Stories from Novi Pazar

Three Volunteers, One Community: Stories from Novi Pazar Volunteering can take many forms. Sometimes it means creating a space to talk about emotions; other times, it means bringing new ideas to work with young people or helping with practical tasks within an organization. In Novi Pazar, Serbia, as part of the Humanitarian Volunteering in Support of Local Communities (HVSA1) project, a succession of […]
Humanitarian camp Pohorelská Maša

Dear volunteers, After years we are renewing the activity of ADRA summer work camps for youth and volunteers. It is an opportunity to do something really useful = to get involved in practical help to people who really need it. It won't be easy, because we will touch the suffering of people for which we don't know an explanation or a real solution. We can just get over ourselves for a moment and [...]
Looking for volunteers!!!!
We are looking for volunteers to join our team to work abroad as part of our global volunteering programme through projects supported by various donors. We are currently urgently looking for a volunteer for a position in Albania!!! ADRA Slovakia is known as one of the Slovak leaders in sending young people to low-income countries (quality pre-departure preparation, well-functioning volunteer cycles, well-chosen [...]
Refugee camp Ushivak?... worse than in my imagination

During the month of November, a collection of sleeping bags, blankets and hygiene items for the Ušivak refugee camp in Bosnia took place. On Sunday night, December 1, 2019, we hit the road with a transporter packed to capacity. 1 000km to Sarajevo, 5 hours at the border + 5 hours at customs in Banja Luka. We [...]
24 October - United Nations Day

On 24.10.1945 the UN Charter entered into force. Since then, 24 October has been UN Day. The United Nations (UN), in English the United Nations Organisation (UNO), is an international organisation comprising most of the nations on Earth that have pledged to work together in support of the principles and objectives set out in its Charter. The United Nations was founded after World War II by 51 [...]