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LIVE with Nanna: “Meeting new people puts you out of your comfort zone but also mentally challenges you.”
Nanna is a 19 years old from Helsinki, Finland. Currently, she is doing a 7-month long term volunteering in Cagliari, Sardinia. After graduating in high school last summer she decided to take a gap year and do volunteering to discover more about herself and travel before enter in the university.
She came in November for a month but at the end she decided to stay and do a long-term volunteering. In this podcast, she share with us her initials expectations about her volunteering and her work in TDM 2000 association.
Nanna’s volunteer work is very varied. Part of her work is promoting human rights and volunteering on social media and also promote the European opportunities as volunteering, Erasmus + in schools etc… But she is open with us and shares that one of the difficulties in her work is the language barrier because the Italian and the Finnish are so different, but she is motivated to learn Italian in these next months.
“Not only have I grown as an individual, but my entire way of thinking has shifted”
One of the highlights of Nanna’s experience was the opportunity to connect with the local community and work alongside passionate people who were dedicated to making a difference for their cause. For her, this volunteering has been life-changing, her world perspective has widened so much and she remark the great opportunity to talk with other people with different cultures and point of views. Nanna is still adapting to the Italian lifestyle but she recognizes that she has adapted a more broad mindset and she has learnt to be more flexible. Also she give us some advices for those people who find themselves embarking on a similar experience voluanteering, in her own words: “My advice would be to embrace change and cherish every moment”.
