European volunteer stories

Category: European volunteer stories / Date: July 13, 2023

Volunteer paramedics at Trbovlje General Hospital, Slovenia

Usually, members of the first aid teams within the regional Red Cross associations refresh their…

Category: European volunteer stories / Date: July 13, 2023

Santa Claus for a day, Slovenia

Santa for a Day is a non-profit project run entirely by volunteers. Behind the project…

Category: European volunteer stories / Date: July 13, 2023

Project of retired seamstresses, 10,500 masks in six days, Slovenia

In the first wave of the coronavirus epidemic, there was a huge shortage of protective…

Category: European volunteer stories / Date: July 13, 2023

Free psychosocial support during the COVID 19 epidemic, Slovenia

Zavod Odprta dlan offered free psychosocial assistance to the residents of the Zasavska region on…

Category: European volunteer stories / Date: July 13, 2023

Free transport to work, Slovenia

During the spring 2020 closure of public transport, volunteers of the Slovenian Philanthropy helped the…

Category: European volunteer stories / Date: July 13, 2023

Trbovlje-mesto volunteer fire brigade, recipients of the title Volunteer organization of the Zasavska region 2020

Around 150 members are included in the association, who completed over 30,000 volunteer hours in…

Category: European volunteer stories / Date: July 13, 2023

Slobodan Filipovič, recipient of the title Volunteer of the Zasavska region 2023 from Hrastnik, Slovenia

Homes for the elderly were closed during the epidemic due to a large number of…

Category: European volunteer stories / Date: July 12, 2023

BioSenior, Portugal

Mata de Vilar is one of the most symbolic green spaces in Vila de Lousada.…

Category: European volunteer stories / Date: July 12, 2023

Rediscovering the Stag beetle, Portugal

In Portugal, there is an old cultural connection with the largest bug in Europe -…

Category: European volunteer stories / Date: July 12, 2023

Learning about invasive exotic plants in the Municipality of Lousada, Portugal

The BioSénior project was created to give more experienced citizens the opportunity to visit and…