Last week of August in Latvia, Jēkabpils city finally happened volunteering event “Volunteering per 1 day” (Latvian: “Brīvprātīgais uz vienu dienu”), organized by NGO “Vidusdaugavas NVO centrs”. First event happened in 2015. Thanks to the European Commission’s European Solidarity Corps project “The Infinity of Volunteering” (2019-3-LV02-ESC11-002836), within the framework of which this event took place. Two Europe volunteers – Marie-Christine Wilfer  (Austria) un Sergi Salanova (Spain) were support to organisation to realizing this event. They in Latvia done short team volunteering project. 

Event aim was to give opportunity to local inhabitants, especially youth, to try different volunteering jobs. And through volunteering introduce with several professions, in future helping to choose study field and dream profession. 

Vacancies were:

• Art masterclass “New life of old things” in partnership with the society ´Environment Initiative Centre”;
• From sports enthusiast to coaching profession – Latvian champions volleyball Team “Jēkabpils Lynx”
• Gives helping hand to landless cats in care by introducing vet profession
• Physiotherapist profession – seniors day centre “Together be”
• Furniture restoration, laser etching 
• Public relations –Jēkabpils municipality

After this week all volunteers and organizers come together and evaluate event “Volunteering per 1 day”. All together managed by Spanish volunteer made and eat Spanish traditional tomatoes soup gaspacho, we called it “Say goodbye to summer!”.