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My Evs in Ankara, Turkey
My name is Vasiliki Stavroglou, I am Greek and I am doing my long term (10 months) EVS program in Ankara. I have one roommate, she is from Ukraine and she is also EVS Volunteer at the same organization. Our Hosting Organization “System and Generation”, is located in the city Center of Ankara, where there are many shops, street markets so every day I get in touch with the Turkish culture. Me and...more
Platform Network
Platform Network is an informal network of regions that supports and promotes international youth mobility in Europe with a history of more than 25 years. Once upon a time Margaret and Liz from Kent in England took a leap of faith and drove a bus-full of young people to meet Franz and his youth group in Luxembourg. And so the story of Platform begins in pre-internet 1985... “ 1985 was the...more
EVS experience of Christina Flora
I am Christina Flora from Greece, I am 24 years old and I am in the middle of my EVS project. Voluntary work and specifically EVS came randomly in my life, in a period that I needed a motivation to be more active. After finishing my studies in translation, there was nothing that could make me smile. I needed to meet new people, to travel, to be useful in the world community...And that is when an...more
“EVS” an experience to change your life
If you are 18-30 years old and you want to experience something different, to learn more about other cultures, languages, lifestyles, but also to discover more about yourself, what are your talents and what actually make you feel happy… don’t think too much, just become a volunteer! In my case the EVS (European Voluntary Service) came out of nowhere! But that’s why the phrase “Everything happens...more
Youngsters from Sikyonia in Portugal for Exchange Human Rights
Between 5 -13 August 2011, 20 young people from Portugal, Greece, Romania and Poland will meet in Amarante, a pretty town in northern Portugal, which spans the history and nature....more
Volunteering - “My school for life”
There are moments that the idea to open your wings and travel to other places and taste experiences different from the standard ones seems like a big distant dream, but when you really believe in yourself and you really know what you want to do, every dream can be reached! Before one year it could seem only as a joke to me the fact that now I’m here in Portugal doing volunteering (EVS - European...more
Green living in the rural area
Filoxenia is hosting international project on sustainable development "Green living in the rural area". This project includes Training seminar and 2 flows of group EVS projects. All projects will be hosted in Kryoneri Korinthias, in the Youth Hostel "Elisson" http://xenon.elisson.gr/ . The Training seminar "Green living in the rural area" already started! There are 22 participants taking place in...more
My 2 months EVS in Ankara, Turkey
My name is Eftychia Stamouli. I am 25 years old and I was a volunteer at System and Generation Organization in Ankara. System and Generation is a kind of organization which tries to update the young people about the European programs by organized meetings or when somebody comes to office to ask something about all those programs. Sometimes they organized some events about all those programs. In...more
"Filoxenia", Intercultural-Environmental Organisation
The new Board of Directors of the Association "Filoxenia", Intercultural-Environmental Organisation, elected by the General Assembly, is as follows: President: Mrs Renatina Athanassouli Secretary: Mr George Palamaris Member: Mr Alexandros Souvatzis Filoxenia is embedding since August 2014 the former active NGO Corinthian Environmental Movement. The association is based in Kryoneri Korinthias and...more

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