Hello!
For six months, four young volunteers will live in a remote village working to rebuild a school and learn more about and connect with the rural life and people. The project, called Rural Future, is co-funded by the EU through the ESC programme.
Here you can get to know the project better:
Rural Future – Nature, Community, Education – ESC Volunteering Project
During the Rural Future Project, we are going to cover the weekly progress through the so-called “Weekly Recaps”. Here we will give a short overview of what is going on in this little village called Mrachenik and will report on our experiences.
Our Mrachenik volunteer team is made up of four people: Leó, Mirthe, Carlos and Hendrik.
We all have different backgrounds and our ages span from 21-27 years.
As part of Smokinya Foundation, we work with the Plovdiv Smokinya team as well.
You will see mixing and exchange between the two teams during our stay in Bulgaria.
This week we were surprised by a lovely Bulgarian choir who sang a song for us in preparation of easter. We also went to the church for the mass where we met quite a few of the locals. Here we got given some home-baked bread and very tasty Baklava. Yummy!
During the week we worked on cleaning the church property from tree branches and logs while also installing further electric cables at the school. The team additionally managed to do some workshop cleaning in the school’s kitchen.
Stay tuned for next week!
This program is co-funded by the European Solidarity Corps program of the European Union.
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