Our group of volunteers has developed different sorts of work in Finland, including: making presentations about Portugal, making presentations about volunteer activity, about social and health care in Portugal, painting window frames and cleaning the hiking association log house in Varkhanmukka - Lapland, preparing pancakes for an event at the senior house Kettumaki service center, colecting garbage along Nauha forest tracks, cleaning paths in the cemetery, creating handicraft postcards at the ETAPPI NGO, visiting and debating in several institutions, namely at the Luteran parish house, at the Service House for disabled people, at the lower level school, at the kindergarden (Killinki day care center), at the charity organization "Vienon kammari" or at the Vocational College for pratical nurses (KSAO).
Great job! Well done too! I want to be a volunteer forever, it was so much fun... and absolutely rewarding. We got to work a little, compared to what I normally work - this was a piece of cake!!!
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We got to make presentations about our country, and people asked us what our flag looked like - we had one to show - but they were also interested to know what our national anthem sounded like - SO, we sang!
It was such a great experience because you also get to know and experience what people from this other country are like, what they do, what they eat - their uses, their daily routines; you learn words in this other language.
We got to know what schools are like, how they function, kindergarten, elementary and secondary schools, nurse schools; how people with little or no mobility live, what their help can be; how seniors live, and so on and so forth. We also built a network of contacts, whom I like to think have actually become friends.
In total - an uplifting experience everyone should experience at least once in their lives.
Great work you have done and also your report is nice to read.
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