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Specific Skills

Volunteer Selection

The selection process will involve the volunteer, the sending and hosting organisations. We always interview all selected candidates. The interview process will be relaxed and informal so that the applicants have the best opportunity to show their enthusiasm and interest. Most likely it will be a skype call.

Both sending and host organisations are actively involved in the final process of deciding on an applicant, but ASHA gives the final YES to a volunteer and helps prepare them for their learning experience alongside with the sending organisation.

We will strive to have a gender-balanced and culturally diverse group. We will give preference to candidates with fewer opportunities and those who haven’t had experience abroad. However, we have learnt in the past EVS placements, that it is best if volunteers have a good level of English language due to ASHA being a very intercultural and social environment.

We involve the current EVS volunteers in informing candidates about the current realities, there are many testimonials of ex-volunteers and ASHA’s website and we will also ask them to advise on what is best for new volunteers. Their feedback is crucial for us to keep updated with what is best from the volunteers’ perspective.

At ASHA we are interested also in the learning process of the volunteers. The EVS framework gives volunteers an excellent opportunity to have a balanced and healthy lifestyle. We want to honour volunteers’ potential and needs and find the best solutions for a successful project for all parties involved. We have created a rotation system that looks after the volunteers’ needs, whilst giving them an opportunity to experience all activities at the ASHA Centre and local community and other associate projects. The working schedule is coordinated weekly and the team tries their best to have a monthly plan in place so that volunteers can plan in their holidays and weekends.

Specific Skills

We do not require any specific skills but just ask for open minded and enthusiastic individuals who are keen to learn, discover and contribute to ASHA’s work! At ASHA we seek to encourage an appreciation of the spirit of volunteering as an opportunity for self-development by putting one’s self aside in the service of a greater good. It is about finding the joy in selfless service to others.

“You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give” - Winston Churchill

The volunteers are highly valued at the ASHA Centre, we respect and are grateful for their dedication and joy at the Centre and we want to keep them motivated and happy.

We would like to share our experience and be a positive example for them so that they can expand their knowledge and skills to be able to disseminate a change whenever needed and help their own communities grow.

The ASHA TEAM – staff at the Centre is as follows:

1 founding director, Zerbanoo Gifford

1 director/trainer, Adrian Locher

1 co-director/ trainer, Mark Gifford

1 project coordinator/trainer, Sandy Ascenso Carreira

1 project manager, Khalid Miah

1 hospitality/group facilitator/outreach manager, Lucie Klein,

1 office manager, Steve Etter,

1 grounds man, Steve Ollie

1 gardener, Madalena Vaz

1 cook/cleaner, Indiu Nepal

1 housekeeper/cook, Marija Trkulja

1 caretaker/cleaner, Prakash Nepal

1 caretaker/garden assistant, Dimitar Borunsuzov

2 external European consultants for Erasmus+ Programme, Max Fras and Jarek Wisniewski