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 […]

The first EU volunteer is already in Serbia

Our first volunteer, Maria from Italy, has already arrived in Serbia. Over the next nine months, she will work with Merhamet Sandžak in Novi Pazar to develop social programs and organize psychosocial activities for low-income communities and Serbian returnees. Through the European Solidarity Corps programme, we plan to send 10 more volunteers to humanitarian [...]

Working with children from Roma communities in Belgrade

Our volunteer Kristina writes about the obstacles facing Roma children in Serbia. During my volunteering with ADRA Serbia in Belgrade, I was also involved in working with marginalized groups, especially Roma communities. Within the community centre we focused mainly on school-age children, but we also supported adults by providing [...]

How people fleeing war live in Serbia

Our volunteer Kristina writes about her time in Serbia. My name is Kristina and as a volunteer I spent seven months in Belgrade (partly in Novi Sad), where I helped with the activities of ADRA Serbia. This experience opened my eyes and left a deep impression on me. It was thanks to the people I met [...]

Year in Serbia

Our development volunteer Tamara sums up her year in Kragujevac, Serbia.

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