A lot is changing in our little 2nd family lately. And I want to say goodbye to three of our fellow family members:

Fabien, our French volunteer, who worked like me on the European Awareness Project, finished his EVS in the end of February. He was working in serveral schools in Donetsk and the near surrounding. His main goal was to promote human rights, like gender equality or democracy. He also conducted many French lessons. He also created an online blog, where he shows his amazing talent in drawing cartoons and making everybody laugh. Although sometimes it might has been hard to understand him (French accents are very particular) he definetely never faild to brighten up the day of all of us volunteers.

Ania, one of our Polish volunteers, has been working in the Debate Center since summertime. She has been responsible for our internet presence, so baseically she has been creating events on VK or Facebook, inviting our local community to join us and she has been working in the office. She also took the movie night to a whole new level. Every Thursday our office was bursting with people who wanted to watch Anias amazing choices.  Finding a suitable replacement is going to be a tough choice. Ania also had a theatre group in one of our schools where she even performed a small play with them. Also Ania (my roommate by the way) is beloved by all for her great cooking skills and her hospitality. Not for nothing we call her „Mama“. She definetely took care of all of us when we first arrived and were more like toddlers than responsible adults. Her high Russian level enables us to communicate to locals much better (yes, over the phone). All in all there is only one word to discribe our lovely Ania, who will be done with her project by the end of March,: Mama!

And last but definetely not least:

Kamil, also one of the Polish Volunteers, left us in the middel of March. He needed to finish his project earlier as planned for his education. We were all really sad to hear the news since Kamil was one of the steady and very supportive ones of our group. Somehow he always knew what to do. He was working on the project of Intergenerational Dialouge, like most of our fellow volunteers. His speciality was Origami, which he mastered and not only that but also he infected many of us with his love for handmade paper flowers. Since his English level was remarkably high he also went and used this amazing skills on the children in several schools and youth centers all over town.

But I will stop blabbering on now and let you all go into the world outside of the internet. Let me just say that all three of them were so unique and speciall, and that they will definetely be missed by all of us who remain.

Love,

Maggie