When I planned to take part in an ESC program, my main goal was to live a new experience. Now, as my volunteering with Zavod Nefiks comes to an end, I can say that I have achieved and even surpassed that goal. Actually, I didn’t expect such a deep and intense experience. Let me tell you a bit more about it.
I am a 23-year-old French woman and I studied law for 5 years at university. I now have my Master’s degree but before starting to work, I wanted to spend a few months abroad and to do something completely different from law.
The ESC program was a perfect opportunity to travel, to improve my English and to participate in a new project. So, I decided to apply for several projects and was accepted into the one proposed by Zavod Nefiks at the Youth Center Vič, in Ljubljana.
Before my departure, I didn’t really know anything about Slovenia or Ljubljana. But I discovered an interesting country and such a beautiful city.
I was attracted by the project’s topic: working in a youth center with children and young people. I didn’t really know what a youth center was or what my tasks would involve but I was very curious to learn more about it.
At the beginning of my volunteering, I felt a little strange because everything was new to me: new language, new home, new work, new people around me… It can be very stressful and I felt like I was in the wrong place … But after a few weeks here, I started to feel at home and all these new things have been transformed:
Poslanstvo zavoda je mladim in mladinskim organizacijam zagotavljati ustrezno strokovno podporo pri beleženju in evidentiranju neformalnega izobraževanja in učinkov mladinskega dela z namenom njegovega priznanja v širši družbi. Nadalje je namen zavoda mladim pomagati pri kariernem razvoju, zaposlovanju in aktivnem državljanstvu ter zagotavljati pomoč in podporo pri organizacijskem in drugem razvoju mladinskih in nevladnih organizacij.