How to get on European Voluntary Service (EVS)

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I'm going to write about how I got on to European Voluntary Service in Poland. It's something I've already written about, but that'd like to go into a bit more depth with and give some links for.

After I finished my Erasmus, I realised that I didn't want to go back home or even back to my home town at all, so I decided to look for a new adventure, looking on Google, I saw some forums for European Voluntary Service.

My first option was the Murcia Town Hall, but it was quickly ruled out as you had to be registered on the census/to vote or to be from the capital.

It was then, when I registered on http://www.youthnetworks.eu/ through a newsletter that they sent me, that I got an offer to go to Poland, where they were urgently looking for someone from Portugal. I did something bad, I sent my CV with the information of my Erasmus house, a summary of my studies there, my CV made it look like I had been living in Portugal for 10 years now.

I got an interview, but I wasn't chosen due to my limited English.

Two weeks later, they got back in touch with me to see if I was still interested in doing EVS for the same time period and in the same city, this time the respond was satisfactory, I didn't even have to interview, in only a week I was in Portugal again to meet with my sending organisation and to travel from there (since I got a place as a Portuguese person, they would only pay for me to fly from there).

I'll put some links here for you:

And I think that the most important thing to do is to join all of the facebook groups that are for the area that you're interested in, since, oftentimes, you'll find last minute offers there and if you're really set on doing that, it's a good way to get what you want.

To do European Voluntary Service you do NOT have to have done any studies.

(although they are asking for more and more every time, as there are a lot of people who are applying)

Send your CV in English and always with a cover letter.