I've meantioned it before, but this is such a great story, I should elaborate it even more: The European Voluntary Service pays volunteers to go abroad and work with a non-profit organisation for a certain time period. Of course at first, humanitarian kind of work come to mind: Work realted to social projects and the such. But hey, CISV is a social organisation as well, and EVS has accepted administrative work inside a national CISV organisation as something they support. A few years ago, CISV Sweden spearheaded this idea, and if I'm not mistaken, Nic/GBR was the first one on the job, working in CISV Sweden national office.
What's so fantastic about it, is that we can hire somebody of our own organization to do work he enjoys, for a cause he believes in, paired with a "gap-year" or "work-and-travel" tag attached for the resumee. And it's all (ok not all, but mostly) paid for by the EU programme.
Of course it requires some work: You need to specify the job description, guarantee language courses and such. But in the end, it's a real win-win and a fundraising project, too. So, why don't other CISV NAs in the EU participate?
And since we're talking - wonder if Norway has found somebody yet?
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