Promoting EVS in Sofia


Since Bulgarian Youth Forum was quite new  being a hosting EVS organisation, (even if we were a sending one for a long time), the PBA “Quality EVS for Inclusion”  expanded our understanding on the topic what means to provide good conditions for the EVS volunteers, how to help them cope with their routine tasks, as well as how to make their volunteering experience abroad most beneficial and help them feel part of the receiving organisation and the local society. The PBA dealt with a lot of interesting and useful topics, concerning volunteering and the other fields of our NGO-s’ work. We managed to establish a strong network of partners, which hopefully will last for a long time in the future.

After coming back to Sofia, with our present volunteers, we decided to organize a few events for the young people in Sofia and the areas near our city, in order to promote volunteering and European Voluntary Service, as well as the other opportunities, provided for the youth, in the frame of Erasmus+ programme. We visited some schools in the capital and in the country and had the chance to share our ideas with the students there. Moreover, we hope that we provoked their desire to go out of their comfort zone, to risk and to dare do something different in their life, something that will be useful for the society, as well as for themselves. We also had our 4th cycle of free trainings for young people in the office of our organisation and there our volunteers shared their experience, told their own stories, motivating the participants to be a part of the EVS programme.
















We know that even if we just made them think about this opportunity with our words, it is a step, which takes them closer ahead to becoming volunteers or active and responsible citizens of our society, 




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