Jessica’s experience Jessica is a 26-year-old girl who has always been passionate about and fascinated by Brazil and its culture. That is why she studied the Portuguese language and literature at University in Venice. After she graduated, she spent three months (April-July 2017) volunteering in Brazil with Aiesec organisation. Aiesec is a non-profit, independent, non-party,…
Despite global and national recognition of children’s rights, Kenya still faces many challenges such as poverty, limited access to drinking water and healthcare, violence against children, child marriage, and female genital mutilation. Unfortunately, Kenya is also scourged by one of the world’s worst HIV and AIDS epidemics. The knowledge and tools for preventing HIV transmission are available worldwide, but…
A volunteering experience in Colombia Golden dust floats through the air as the motorcycle roams the dirt road that starts just off the busy highway in Santa Marta, Colombia. Some old ladies sit in the shade outside their tiny houses to escape the unbearable heat of a February afternoon; chickens, cats, and stray dogs chase…
Beatrice is 21 years old today, and she attends the second year of psychology in Milan. She loves this university and is particularly interested in developmental psychology because she thinks that the environment in which kids are educated, and in which they grow up is fundamental to understand the pattern of their behaviour in the…
From today we officially reopen the beautiful project in Greece. Do you want to teach English? Do you have a few weeks to volunteer? In Athens, there are many refugees and immigrants, who need to learn and/or improve English, to then look for a good job opportunity and thus offer a dignified life to their family. What are…
