Balkans. Thessaloniki. Human Rights. Youth Participation.
Hello, I am Francesco, an Italian guy, and I wanted to talk about the amazing experience of volunteering here in Thessaloniki for the 10th Pride. Starting from the beginning, I didn’t know this would be the most beautiful experience in my life, nor that I’d have the opportunity to grow immensely and go out of my […]
June 3, 2022. This is the date sixteen volunteers from all over Europe met for the first time and started the implementation of the project “Green Your Mind: Health for us and for the Earth”. A project dedicated to two main areas of human life, inextricably linked: the environment and mental health Two months full […]
On June 24th 2022, volunteers from various projects hosted by “United Societies of Balkans”, joined volunteers from “Faros tou Kosmou” to carry out an intercultural story exchange activity. At the 3rd Intercultural Primary School of Menemeni – 3º Διαπολιτισμικό Δημοτικό σχολείο Μενεμένης – KDAP/Activity Centre, in Dendropotamos, we gathered in the music and reading room, […]
Art is used not only as an expression of artist creativity but also as therapy. Therefore, as one of the most important help for stress relief or depression symptoms, our volunteers decide to experience by themself this power.
Today we meet some of our volunteers from GYM (Green Your Mind). We ask them to tell us their favourite life quotes. Here’s what they said.
On the 5th of July, our volunteers with some patients of the Open Therapeutical Community organized a football match in the Psychiatrical Hospital of Stavroupoli. Through a sports activity, they connected and enriched each other.This is the video that summarizes the afternoon together!
The arrival of winter in Northern countries is not a simple case. As days are getting shorter and the sunlight is decreasing at a very fast rate, to the point where the day lasts less than six hours in some areas, many people are experiencing what is called “the winter blues”. This weather condition heavily […]
The 16 volunteers of the Green Your Mind project finally started the activities in collaboration with ARGO Social Enterprise and Green Unit! Keep an eye out on our blog and social media to follow their journey. Video credits: Vasiliki Arkoumani
An innovative volunteering project about mental health A new project started on the 3rd of June in Thessaloniki, founded by the European Solidarity Corps. “GYM: Health for us and for the Earth” is organized by the United Societies of Balkans, in association with the Psychiatric Hospital of Stavroupoli and the Open Therapeutic Community of Argo. […]
Each one of us lived difficult moments during these months and in this house. Each one of us found a way to go through this and smile, laugh, be happy. I will never forget all your faces, your personalities, your stories. Inspired by “Orange is the new black”, I imagined this video as an opening […]