Africa

MY SISTER’S EXPERIENCE IN CAMEROON

In 2018, for five weeks, my sister went to Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, to help restore a technical middle school for girls. She was part of a group of young French people that flew to Cameroon to join a group of young Cameroonians in order to work together. Before leaving, they raised funds to…

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Ethical travel

DOING IT THE CUBAN WAY

What is sustainable tourism? According to the World Tourism Organization, sustainable tourism is “Tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment, and host communities”. Sustainable tourism is a way of traveling that not only reduces the negative impact on the visited places to the minimum…

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Africa

IS VOLUNTEERING OVER WITH THE PANDEMIC?

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…

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Age 18+

EUROPEAN SOLIDARITY CORPS

The European Solidarity Corps is a funding programme of the European Union that consists of giving young people from 17 years old to 30 years old the opportunity to work and volunteering in their country or abroad. To participate you must be legally resident in the EU Member States or in one of the other…

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Community

#GIVINGTUESDAY: A WORLDWIDE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT

On Tuesday 1st December 2020, #GivingTuesday, the world’s largest giving movement, will hold its annual celebration. Born in 2012 as a day encouraging people to do good and come together to “give back”, this movement has expanded over the years in 55 countries: it became a true inspiration for millions of people across the world!…

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