Mona ha concluso la sua avventura come volontaria del Corpo Europeo di Solidarietà a Milano con il centro giovani Tempo per il Barrio, un’esperienza che l’ha vista protagonista da marzo a dicembre 2024. Curiosi di scoprire cosa significhi vivere un anno dedicato alla solidarietà, le abbiamo chiesto di raccontarci cosa ha significato per lei questo viaggio unico.
La testimonianza di Mona
Hi, I’m Mona and I just came back from my 10 month adventure in Milano! I was looking for an escape from my routine in Sofia and in March I found myself in Italy!
My mission was to give a hand in a youth center with its activities. I was mainly helping the youngsters with homework and organising and supporting activities. I went there without knowing the language, and very few people at work were speaking English, so the first 2 months were challenging, also to find how to be useful, but with a very strong will to learn in the 3rd month I was already speaking well enough! During my time there I also got the opportunity to try new things as sports, working with various art materials, having workshops on citizenship topics. In summer when there was no school and homework, instead of going to the youth center, we were doing a “summer camp”, where we spent June and July playing games in a park.
I had a lot of free time in the mornings to explore the city during the week, since I was busy with the center only in the afternoons. On weekends I was almost always out of town exploring. It’s amazing how many interesting things there are in the region no more than 3 hours away. You’ve got 5 huge beautiful lakes 1-2h away, mountains 1h away, the sea is again 2h from Milano, plenty of small cute towns with rich history around.
Last, but not least, I was sharing the flat with 5 other girls the first 6 months, then 5 new ones came (since I extended my project after the 6th month for another 4 months), from very different places, so I was living in a multicultural flat, which was very interesting and we’ve learnt much about each other and our countries, cooking traditional meals, discovering similarities and differences. I have to say I was very lucky with the flatmates, we got along really well and had many adventures together. I believe the ESC programs bring wonderful people together!
L’esperienza di Mona è solo uno dei tanti esempi di come il Corpo Europeo di Solidarietà possa trasformare una semplice opportunità in un’avventura ricca di significato. Se anche tu vuoi metterti in gioco, esplorare nuove culture e lasciare il tuo segno, visita il sito corpoeuropeodisolidarieta.net per scoprire i progetti disponibili e candidarti. Il prossimo viaggio potrebbe essere il tuo!
