Previous outgoing volunteers as mentors

What challenge inspired this recipe? Having a mentor during your volunteering project is incredibly valuable and beneficial for volunteers. A mentor provides volunteers with valuable guidance and direction throughout the volunteering project. We believe that having mentors who have also been volunteers themselves previously can offer added value, such as peer support for the incoming […]

ESC Buddy

What challenge inspired this recipe? Having a local person who can empathize with you and support you on your arrival is very beneficial to remove the stress of starting a new life in a different country and a new project. Having other volunteers, who are already there, keep the contact for the new arriving ones […]

Get-involved Local activism

What challenge inspired this recipe? We created a platform that connects volunteering projects with potential donors called get involved! Informal group of young people can gather and do a local action in their neighborhood. It can be an event, fix up the park or a local workshop. The local reality is best viewed through the […]

Find accommodation

What challenge inspired this recipe? More and more organizations face difficulties accommodating volunteers on projects as rent prices are going up. Letting volunteers find their own accommodation can take a long time and prove to be even more expensive. There needs to be a more sustainable way. We partnered with the city’s student dormitory. Volunteers […]

Live my life amongst volunteers

What challenge inspired this recipe? Sometimes volunteers can feel isolated in their missions, or just want to see other new things in the network. So the lead structure can organize a ‘live my life’ week or couple of days. ✍️ANCB Ingredients : A small budget, a good time and organization from the lead coordinator. Also […]

Linguistic support for volunteers

Creating a personalized learning program helps long-term volunteers keep growing and get the language support they need.