"Helping is privilege! - My EVS in DR Congo" is a group EVS project that takes place in Kinshasa, DR Congo. Six volunteers from Hungary will carry out a six-month voluntary service in Othniel Primary and Secondary School and La Providence orphanage. Two volunteers will help in the orphanage, proposing orphans various leisure time activities as well as assist them with their everyday life. Assisting the teachers, three volunteers will help students in College Othniel who lag behind with their homework, in English language, in basic subjects (e.g. maths, writing, reading) in French as well as in computer science. In one part of their time they will assist with the organisation of the student and orphan sponsorship programme. A sixth volunteer will assist in raising awareness in the field of everyday health and hygiene among the children and their parents. Volunteers will be encouraged to propose further complementary activities according to their own interest and skills. One volunteer will be offered an internal team coordinator role and also given the opportunity to assist in the management of donor relations and fundraising activities of the hosting NGO. Project tools are arts, creativity, non-formal and informal education as well as knowledge transfer in order to empower the children and the youngsters with important life-skills and help them prepare for an independent adult life. The project fosters mutual learning and understanding of the cultural and social realities of both the volunteers and the beneficiaries as well as provides the volunteers with the opportunity to acquire new personal competences as well as to discover a different, African country. An experience that they can make use of upon their return in youth work in their home country, on a national or European level or as a development professional in the future.