Category: News
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Volunteers from France came to Moldova to work with children
On 21th of October for a period of 2 weeks, eight volunteers from France, came to Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. Their visit was aimed to assistance at two Centers that are working with children with disabilities “Atentie” The Association for disabled children and social inclusion ” and “Small Group Homes”, the beneficiaries of this organizations…
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Youth exchange in Moldova
This Youth Exchange “What do YOU THink” brought together active youth from the countries of Armenia, Belgium, Croatia Estonia, Georgia, Russia, Moldova, Portugal and Spain. All participants, armed with vast experience and different cultural backgrounds, came together to Moldova in order to develop and promote critical thinking skills with the use of non-formal tools of…
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Boosting youth entrepreneurship through AgriCULTURE
It is already 5th day of the Youth Exchange project “Boosting youth entrepreneurship through “AgriCULTURE”. During the youth exchange project young people are getting practical entrepreneur skills and knowledge in agribusiness. On 1st of September participants arrived to the venue place of the project Tsaghkadzor, Armenia and will stay there till 12th of September. Total…
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National volunteering around Europe
On 23rt of May, our volunteers Natalie Sommer, Luc Fedon, Laura McCoy and Zaïnab Raibati visited Artico for an event organized in partnership between Artico and ADVIT Moldova. The porpose of the event was to talk about different forms of national volunteering around Europe and to get inspired by best practices. After short presentations about popular programs in the volunteers’ home countries, the event offered the…
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EVS exerience of the belgian volunteer Celine Mewissen
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…
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Excursion to Soroca and Orheiul Vechi
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,…
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Quiz fun
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…
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Volunteers celebrating Christmas and New Year in Chisinau
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…
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Message from our volunteer Dieter Eggen
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…
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Christmas Party
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…