Volunteer Review – Nico
Ananda Valley is an experience of inner growth, is a way of living,
is a way of seeing the world through a different lens:
a love lens.
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Volunteer Review – Mia Ma’dhavii
For me, coming to volunteer at Ananda Valley has meant entering another world. It is a world ofconnection: connection to nature, the environment, the weather, connection to the food we eat, tothe people we meet, to the actions we take every day, and ultimately, connection to ourselves. Thepeople that I’ve met here share the values …
Volunteer Review – Alberto Pasciolla
Being a volunteer in this magic place means to be heard, to be respected, to be supported, to be loved as if it was a big family, but I need to say it, sometimes…is even more than a family. Being a volunteer here means also questioning our life, our society, our mindset, our ego, our …
Volunteer Review – Alexandre Seguro
My name is Alexandre Seguro and I’m a Portuguese 17-year-old boy finishing high-school in Lisbon. I’ve become more conscious about the world around me in the recent years being concerned about its problems and striving to find and learn effective solutions. In the quest of making sense of my reality I started to question the …
Volunteer Review – Annika Suvi-Marjaana
Happy moments for all of us For me it was not just the end of 2018 but the end of living two years abroad – in Portugal and finally in Romania. 2016 I moved from the very very north of Finland (Utsjoki) to Oijärvi, from there to Espoo (south of Finland) and finally to Portugal, …
Volunteer Review – Anouk Kraakman
You know that feeling that something isn’t right, but you cannot really figure out what is? I’m quite familiar with that feeling I have to admit. ? It’s not always present on the foreground, not at all actually. Often times I even completely forget about it, yet it never stays away for too long. This …
Youth in Permaculture – It’s Our Future
Ananda Kalyani Master Unit is working with an international project called Youth in Permaculture (YiP), whose mission is to support and empower youths and young adults to lead fulfilling and healthy lives inspired by permaculture through events organised by and for the youth, who plan to share information and practical tools through online platforms and …
A volunteer experience from Porto
“Namaskar! Do you know that feeling when 2 weeks seems like a month or more? Do you know when your life won’t be the same anymore as you return back “home“? Did you ever felt that “seeds” were planted in you and you can’t just return home and be that same person, with the same …
Organizational structure and staff empowerment
During my master I’ve been focused on the methods that the organizations use for manage the persons who work inside them, in order to promote the effort, to create involvement and to enhance the human potential. Now I have the possibility to see in first person which kind of methods are used by AMURT, a private …
OUSEM and the EVS project
As part of our colaborative experience with OUSEM, we have had the support of three EVS volunteers in the Master Unit. OUSEM, The OUtstanding Solutions for EMpowerment association, is focused on promoting local development projects, has been helping on projects like the Ananda Kalyani and the Covilhã transition movement, “Covilhã em Transição“. The three volunteers, Enrico, …
