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  • You have a keen interest in furthering your career in international affairs? You are into the international policy realm ?
  • Different communities are at different stages of development; either the communities are facing underdevelopment in many areas either they need to work more on improving their status quo.
  • Volunteering abroad means also intercultural learning through intercultural communication and multi-linguism.
  • The lack of human resources in this field of care giving is a common situation in many parts of the world.
  • Volunteers are of great help when it comes to school tutoring. They offer assistance to build in necessary supports for children, at the same time improving their own pedagogical skills.
  • The volunteers will have, obviously, an impact on the organization in which they will be working.
  • Volunteers can practice their skills as fundraisers to sustain an already existing project, or to initiate sponsorship campaigning for a various range of issues, from social to environment.
  • The extra-curricular education is a very useful tool in volunteer work to bridge the gap between informal and formal education.

Why doing World Wide Volunteering via EVS?

Annually, thousands of youths worldwide choose to do it- either it is your gap year, you feel are willing to experience new cultures, you want to strengthen your social skills and increase your employment chances, www.yesforevs.eu platform is ready to assist you through your life time experience in Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Caucasus, European Union in areas such as international affairs, community development, intercultural communication and multi-lingvism, care giving, school tutoring,organizational development, fundraising, extra-curricular education.
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Promoting YEP and EVS in Peru
The partner in the Youth Empowerment Network, from Peru, started in January a series of actions with the purpose of promoting YEP and EVS among organizations working in the youth field. Jovenes de Buena Voluntad had a structured and consistent work, unfolding until March in the region of Ventanilla-Lima, as following...read more
National tour in Cameroon for promoting YEP and EVS
In Cameroon, under the coordination of Marie Tamoifo, the president of Jeunesse Verte du Cameroon, the partner organization in the network of Youth Empowerment Programme, it was organized a national tour of seminars, covering almost all the regions of the country ...read more
Seminars in Argentina promoting YEP and EVS, February – March, 2010
Argentina of Youth for the United Nations ) has it’s area of action - to inform their referents about the European Voluntary Service and Project YEP, and to introduce them on how the program works....read more
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Ken
Norway

EVS volunteer in Romania
I'm in Romania because I wanted to do something different and new, so why not go to Romania? I like to travel, explore new cultures and meet new people. I love sports but especially football, music and all kind of food and chocolate Ship o'hoi!
 
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Worldwide volunteering vacancies

Romania, November 15th 2010 - August 15th 2011, SEED 2 ... read further

Romania, September 15th 2010 - June 15th 2011, W.A.V.E.- Worldwide Active Volunteers in Europe ... read further

Spain, September 15th 2010 - July 15th 2011, Murcia Ciudad Joven ... read further

Germany, September 1st 2010 - September 1st 2011, Haus Trillup ... read further

Turkey, 1st September 2010 – 31st July 2011, Pink House ... read further

Spain, May 15th 2010 - November 15th 2010, Darkness full of Light and Colour, ... read further

Spain, May 15th, 2010 - May 15th, 2011, Asamblea de Jovenes Alarca ... read further

Germany, August 10th 2010 - August 10th 2011, After-School-Club... read further

 

Youth Empowerment Program- YEP

The ideas on cooperation in the youth sector in between the EU , Africa and Latin America is is in line with the Africa-EU Strategic Partnership- A Joint Africa-EU Strategy and Latin America Regional programming document 2007-2013 but also with the specific papers that touch on youth volunteering, White Paper on Youth, European Youth Pact and the newly launched strategy "Youth – Investing and Empowering".. Read further

 

 

 

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