Marcelo, our long-term European Solidarity Corps (ESC) volunteer from Portugal, who will spend six months volunteering with Association IKS, discovering the local community and contributing to different activities in Petrinja. One of his recent experiences was taking part in the Eurodesk information stand during Lovrenčevo – St. Lawrence Day, one of Petrinja’s most important traditional […]
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Ilaria: From ESC Volunteer to Eurodesk Ambassador: A Day at Lovrenčevo
As part of her ESC experience, Ilaria from Italy, joined the IKS team and fellow volunteers at the Eurodesk information stand during Lovrenčevo, one of Petrinja’s most important local celebrations. For her, the day was not only an opportunity to promote European and local volunteering opportunities, but also her first real experience of directly engaging […]
Wendy signing out – my two months volunteering in Petrinja
* skrolaj niže za hrvatski prijevod Wendy, our ESC volunteer from South Africa currently residing in Hungary for her studies wrote a short reflection on her time volunteering in IKS and you can read it below. WENDY…SIGNING OUT I spent two months volunteering at Udruga IKS, and somehow those weeks managed to change me more […]
Osvrt našeg volontera Christiana na On-arrival trening za ESS volontere u Orahovici 2025
From the 10th to the 15th of November 2025, our long-term European solidarity corps volunteer Christian went on the On-arrival training in Orahovica organised by the Agency for Mobility and EU Programmes in Croatia. Here’s how it went! How we learned In a small Croatian city, 19 volunteers from all around Europe, volunteering all […]
Dan u Udruzi KAS – Chloeino iskustvo volontiranja tijekom terapijskog jahanja za djecu
Udruga KAS is an association that offers various activities involving horses, including therapeutic riding. This practice involves having a child ride a horse, which walks at a slow pace for several minutes with the child on its back. It has been proven that, thanks to the pelvic movements, this activity is very beneficial for the […]
Dani kruha 2024. u Sisku s Klubom Žabice
Every year in mid-October in Croatia we celebrate the Days of Bread and thanksgiving for the fruits of the earth. Bread days are closely related to World Food Day (October 16), which has been celebrated since 1979 to raise public awareness of the problem of unbalanced food distribution in the world and the need to […]
Chloe iz Francuske – nova volonterka u Petrinji
Hello, my name is Chloé but my friends call me Michaux or Mich. I’m 20 and I’m from France, more precisely from the Alps (the mountains haha). I lived for two years in Nice, near the sea, for my environmental studies. I decided to stop in December 2023 because it no longer corresponded to what […]
Andrea iz Španjolske – nova volonterka u Udruzi IKS
My name is Andrea, I am from Cadiz, a city located in the region of Andalucia, in the south of Spain. I am currently 22 years old. Among many things, I am a student of History and Archaeology since my greatest dream has always been to be a teacher, to be able to teach and […]