Four months in Cape Town: What am I doing here?
To everyone who asks this question (sometimes even I ask myself); I have something to tell you. Elementary school in Cape Town I am...
"I do not envy the joys of Europe, the greatness that is enclosed in it (...)"
The above is an excerpt from the second most important anthem of my beloved Costa Rica, an anthem that’s almost a second national anthem...
Transformation
Just like the women in the project, I'm going through a process of transformation as well. The first months were invested in me. I needed...
Berlin, where the streets speak a thousand languages and multiculturalism is the blueprint of every
I found myself at Juan Santamaría airport in Costa Rica on June 6th, 2018. For the many who had already experienced the sensation of...
Our Volunteer-Trip to Costa Rica
How dangerous! Everywhere we went we got the same response when we tell them of Limon. Everyone who lives there seems to have either been...
Visioneers Wednesdays: Crafting with Refugee Children
On a cloudy Wednesday in the end of September, I headed to Berlin-Schöneberg to participate in one of the weekly Visioneers projects. I...
Volunteering in Costa Rica
“I would like to assist the activities in Casafé and support the staff!” Those were my thoughts when I decided to work voluntarily in a...
Can I Be a Volunteer?
Volunteer (v.) - “To choose to act in recognition of a need, with an attitude of social responsibility and without concern for monetary...
Trends in Modern Volunteering
As new projects attract a larger variety of people than ever before, volunteering is widely discussed as a plausible solution to some of...
3 Fundraising Pointers for International Volunteering Stays
Let’s say you find an amazing volunteering opportunity aligned to your passion and skills abroad, but you encounter some huge roadblocks...