April<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My first\nmonth of volunteering in Arsis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In April of\n2019 I began my EVS volunteering in Thessaloniki, Greece and it was much better\nthan I expected. I am a volunteer in one of Arsis shelters the House of Arsis (\u03a4\u03bf \u03a3\u03c0\u03af\u03c4\u03b9 \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u0386\u03c1\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2),\na shelter for the temporary stay of minors. I will refer to it as a House,\nbecause its more than a shelter. It\u2019s a house where 14 children of different\nnationalities (Greeks, Iraq, Iran, Bulgarian etc) between 5 and 17 years old\nlive. Some of them speak English very well. These children are from problematic\nfamilies, no one seems to care for them but here comes to help Arsis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My first day\nof volunteering started with a chat I had with a 15 year old girl and a 17 year\nold boy, who speak English very well. It was not like a talk between a\npsychologist and a child, it was like a talk between two old friends. My target\nwas to make the child feel more liberated and not to feel shy with foreigners. This day was very important for the rest of\nmy volunteering experience, because these children, and their friends\nunderstood the reason of me being in their house, and let me become a part of\ntheir family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Next 3 weeks\nwere full of preparations for the Easter\u2019s Bazar. The target of this event was to sell handmade\nstuff, and the money would go for children\u2019s needs. And all this time, I was helping house staff\nto prepare this event. I am not an artist, but in this house, I learned how to\nbe one. I had never before drawn so much in my life and made stuff with my\nhands. It was a very good\nexperience, and I learned something new, during my first month of volunteering.\nWhat could be better? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
After Easter\u2019s Bazar ended, the Easter\u2019s holidays started. They were home all the time and this\nmeans that I started having more time to spend with them. I played often\nfootball with kids who don\u2019t speak\nEnglish but we communicate with eyes. It was again a new experience for me, and I liked it a lot! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally I\nhelped the staff to find activities for children in their free days. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
April My first month of volunteering in Arsis. In April of 2019 I began my EVS volunteering in Thessaloniki, Greece and it was much better than I expected. I am a volunteer in one of Arsis shelters the House of Arsis (\u03a4\u03bf \u03a3\u03c0\u03af\u03c4\u03b9 \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u0386\u03c1\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2), a shelter for the temporary stay of minors. I will … Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-european-voluntary-service-youth-for-inclusion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}