I like being a volunteer so much! Today, I will tell you about one of the reasons why. Ehm, actually, there are two reasons – two special people. Their names are María and Jorge and they come from Alzira. They decided to do the EVS in a Slovak town named Dolný Kubín. The town situated … More Have You Ever Heard of Dolný Kubín?
Hello my name is Félix Sanz Párraga, I am volunteer for the organization Idea Alzira, developing European voluntary service (EVS) Erasmus +. From the 13th to the 20th of April I was participating in the training course called Creative Young Entrepreneurship held in Ankara (Turkey) by Ankara Social Sciences University. This course hosted 35 people … More Training Course Entrepreneurship ANKARA
Me llamo Isabel, tengo 24 años y soy maestra de Educación Primaria. Esta es la primera vez que participo un proyecto de Erasmus + (un Training Course), cuya finalidad era tratar sobre el funcionamiento de las ONGs; conocer su proceso de creación en los distintos países participantes, promover el uso y creación de asociaciones de … More BE READY TO TRANSFORM! – ANKARA, Erasmus + Project
On the international Children’s day we the volunteers and interns paid our visit to the mayor of Alzira at his office. It was us and our “parents” – supervisor Carmen and mentor Jose Manuel who lead us to the City Hall and interpreted for us (as our Spanish is still not top level). A number … More Welcome to … Ayuntamiento!
My name is Karolina, I am 24 years old and I am from the Czech Republic. In the summer of 2016, I finished the first year of my masters. To gain and improve my skills and learn something new, I decided to take a gap year and go abroad as an EVS (European Voluntary Service) … More Karolina : My EVS Experience
As I was spending last weekend in a multicultural city of Valencia, I came across a festival in Jardines de Viveros. At first, it was the sound… and then a sight of a crowd of locals and some tourists exploring various cultures living in Spain. So what was happening? Rhythms of drums pulled me closer … More May 25th
The first year of Biosfira festival took place in Parc de l’Alquenència, Alzira between 19-21 May. The green site adopted some more green thinking and the park flourished with entrepreneurs, small local businesses owners, supporters of veganism and many more. A number of workshop and presentations were given; children enjoyed dancing and driving karts as … More Biosfira Weekend
During the weekend of 8-9 april I was hosting some friends of Belgium. They already visited Valencia City before so we take the decision to get out of the city center and discover the region outside the center. Saturday we went to the port of Valencia, it was amazing. It’s just April but the temperature … More National Park
Mestalla is one of the oldest stadiums in Spain. Having been built in 1923, considering that FC Barcelona´s stadium Nou Camp was built in 1954, you can have more or less an assumption in your mind about how historic and significant Mestalla is. The perfect blending of recently built parts of the stadium and … More Mestalla
It has been almost three weeks since my arrival to Alzira. It is certainly different weather in Slovakia; my family begs me to send some sunshine everyday. I knew about EVS for a while and applied repeatedly, today am one of those content ones who spend their time abroad working among Spanish colleagues and hearing … More Back to the Start
