EVS in Santiago de Compostela

Since two weeks, we have one more volunteer in the flat! His name is Nico, he's from France, and he will be working with us in the Ludoteca and in the office of Don Bosco.

After long hours of hard work I'm finally finished with the flyers for the Centro Don Bosco! The first one is for the special Christmas activities we offer in the Ludoteca. The second one is for a charity run around Christmas, where they collect food in the neighbourhood of San Pedro to redistribute it to people in need.  

Last weekend, Tamara and I went to the International Congress for Youth in Riveira. We thought it could be useful, since we will have to promote the EVS program in schools and also provide informations about it to the youngsters who come to the Center. During one and a half day, we listened to the presentations and participated to the workshops of a certain number of actors from the youth field: politicians, professors, economists, members of NGO's... and of course youngsters. We heard about a lot of very interesting initiatives and researches concerning the formal and non formal education, and especially their collaboration on every level in order to build a  civic, educated and proactive generation of youngsters. Unfortunately, some workshops couldn't be performed properly due to a lack of time, and the part about the Erasmus + program (which will replace the EVS next year) was not very enlightening... But all in all it was an interesting and motivating exper