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Voluntary Service in Southeasteurope

Sarajevo
Full-time
Intern / Student

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Voluntary Service in South-East Europe


Every year, SHL enables several young people to volunteer abroad with one of our partner organisations in South-East Europe.

If you would like to spend a year volunteering in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo or Serbia, you've come to the right place. There, you can spend a year promoting creativity and initiative among young people in youth centres, for example, or supporting them in their commitment to peaceful coexistence.

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This voluntary service offers participants the opportunity to gain a wide range of practical experience in the work of the respective situation, to test their independence, to develop their personal skills and to expand their knowledge of the region and, for example, the situation of minorities.

Volunteers abroad can get to know the countries of South-Eastern Europe and the living conditions of the people there in depth and experience intercultural exchange. In addition, global connections and interactions are better understood through personal experience and questioning.

There are many different activities at our locations: volunteers can actively participate in tutoring programmes and leisure activities for disadvantaged children and young people, offer their own workshops on various topics, or organise local initiatives together with other young volunteers.

You can find more information on our Website and on Instagram.

This is a development policy volunteer service within the framework of the weltwärts programme.

About us

Schüler*innen Helfen Leben (SHL) is Germany's largest youth-led aid organisation. For over 30 years, we have been promoting and running youth projects on the topics of education, encounter, democracy and engagement. One highlight is the annual Social Day, when around 60,000 school students swap the classroom for a workplace for a day and donate their earnings. This provides direct support for sustainable youth projects in South-East Europe, in the context of the Syrian conflict, Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and in Germany.