• We are working in the same association which has many social activities. One of them is to take care of children in a kindergarten: it is what we do. We have to work 40 hours a week. We had no experience with children.

• We work at the memorial to the former Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald. We give guided tours of the site as well as working in the reception, archive and library. As the year progresses we will work in more and more different areas, including working with former prisoners.

• I work with handicaped people and I help them in every-day life. I go swimming with them or to gymnastic lessons or I go shopping with them.

• I work with people who have alcohol problems and homeless people. They live in a center where they have to do manual work. I have a lot of contact with them but there is not an activites program. I only have to be with them and, for example, play cards with them.

• I work in an environmental project, in an associtation which has a biological farm and which organises seminars about ecology.

• I work in an environmental project in a farm where there are cows and biological products. I work toguether with handicaped people.

• I work with physically-handicaped people. They have a weekly plan and they do different activities. I try to break their every-day life and introduce activity.

• I work in a music school. I make office-work. The school has a core that acts in France, I have to arrange new contacts and I do translations.

• I work in an office within a German-Russian programm.

• I work in a fair trade shop. My job consist of supporting the daily running of the shop (labelling and selling products). I was also ofered the possibility to go Chile to visit our partners.

The EVS has many more projects to offer, for more information click here to go to the official EVS home page!