By Maria Servetnik Helping with reconstruction of the school, putting wall-paper, painting windows, spending time we became Paraskoveyevka Team. The symbol of the Paraskoveyevka Team was a pear. Pears in Paraskoveyevka are really very tasty, the tastiest in Ukraine. Beside this that we were helping with renovation of the school, volunteers also cut pears for compote of stewed fruits. In the free time we were spending a lot of time outside, we were on a salty lake, which was formed on the site of former salt mine. On the salty lake there is a place with clay which has medicinal properties, so we were treating our “sick joints” (being 20 years old!), and building castles and different things, but as a result all this “looked like mess”. Details...

Of Anna Novgorodova The attitude of Ukrainian people towards foreigners really impressed our volunteers, because people are very curious about strangers and are friendly too. So local people treat foreigners as special people, try to make them feel comfortable. Sometimes they are even too pushy. What was great about Dobre razom workcamp itself is working with children. This really made a huge impact on me and on the volunteers. It’s an important experience and I suppose everyone should try it at least once in a lifetime, to see how it feels =) Plus, just seeing a country different from your own in so many ways was a great experience. Details...