Hi all, Let me introduce myself: my name is Celine and I come from Liege in Belgium. I started a European Voluntary Service in January 2017 with ADVIT as coordinating organization. It all began with checking for hours the hundreds of projects on the EVS Database and applying to the ones I was the most interested in. I finally ended up in Chisinau, the capital city of a small country of Eastern Europe: the Republic of Moldova! I have to…
Last Saturday, 17 EVS volunteers and 2 ADVIT coordinators travelled by bus in the early morning to explore Soroca, a beautiful city in the north of Moldova. Originally, the trip was scheduled to occur one week earlier but due to a sudden revival of winter in late April (aka #snowpocalypse), it was impossible to leave the house. This time, the weather gods were favourably inclined towards our group, so we could feel the warm sun rays when we left the bus two hours later. Fortunately,…
Right now the ADVIT family is growing and growing. In January, a plenty of new volunteers arrived in Moldova to do something meaningful while getting to know a new culture. Therefore we decided to combine the monthly volunteer meeting with a socializing event so that “old” and “new” volunteers had the chance to get to know each other. After a short introduction about the behavior in case of earthquakes, due to the recent increase of the latter, the games could…
Bună ziua şi un an nou mai bun! I’m Nata from Germany and I’m volunteering at ADVIT since November 2016. Because of the fact that this is just a relatively short time, I decided to stay in Moldova for both, Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Furthermore I was really interested in celebrating in an international community. Today I want to share my impressions of the holidays with you. I was lucky because I wasn’t the only one who didn’t go…
Dear all, I have been spending the last nine months in Moldova. My main reason of being here is to volunteer for a refugee centre in Moldova’s capital Chisinau. After arriving here in early March a number of things quickly struck my attention: the half finished and abandoned buildings, the cashier trying to give plastic bags with just about every article you buy and the excessive amount of casinos, kinda weird considering this is Europe’s poorest country. But I was…
Yesterday, on 13th December we had our anual Christmas party with the volunteers which was great fun. Besides talking, listening to music and playing Secret Santa we also had an amazing international potluck: Everyone brought some food (mostly selfmade Christmas candies from their homecountries but also hearty dishes) and shared it with each other. Of course, Moldovan placinte and Christmas sweets didn’t miss. Thanks to everyone for making such a great evening possible.
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On the 14th of September, ADVIT “Europe without borders” together with the new EVS and Weltwartes volunteers community from Chisinau Republic of Moldova, had the first introductory meeting about Erasmus +, about the local culture and EVS practicalities. During the first meeting, volunteers had introductive games and a city quest for that they were split into four teams and were having different tasks that helped them to understand better the local Moldovan culture and society where they are going to…
In between 11-14 of March 2016 in Chisinau, Moldova took place Advanced Planning Visit (APV) for the project “Youth for Heritage!” funded from Erasmus+ Programme, KA1, Belgium NA (JINT vzw – Flemish NA). The Youth Exchange ‘Youth for Heritage!’ aims to support the involvement of young people in the sustainable development of urban communities and to promote the understanding of the importance of protection of cultural heritage both on national and international level. The project consists of 2 parts –…
I’m Julia a 25 year old Spanish girl from Barcelona. I studied Political Sciences in Barcelona and I studied a Master in International Humanitarian Aid and NGO. Before coming to Moldova, I was on Madagascar working at an NGO, promoting Women’s Rights and education. At first, I went there as an intern and few months later I came back to Madagascar to volunteer for a few months more. There I had the chance to work for women’s empowerment and discover…