The main goal of the project: "Our Children Batoto Yetu" is to promote and reinforce the work in the field of social integration through the arts, targeted at children and young people from underpriviliged suburban neighborhoods. Through this project, the volunteer helped the Hosting Organisation (Associação Cultural e Juvenil Batoto Yetu Portugal) to develop solidarity, tolerance and mutual understanding among youth. Through helping the Hosting Organisation the volunteer had the opportunity to gather new intercultural experiences and to deepen her european awareness. The project enabled the volunteer to take responsibility for herself, to manage the challenges of an adult life and get an orientation in personal and professional respect. The EVS project was carried out by the CHANCE BJS gGmbH in Berlin, Sending and Applying Organisation, in cooperation with the Hosting Organisation Batoto Yetu Portugal in Oeiras, Caxias in Portugal. Before the start of the activtiy the partners made an agreement concerning their roles and tasks within the project, made it transparent to the volunteer and discussed with her her responsibilities and rights. During the project partners will stayed in permanent contact with each other and the volunteer to ensured the quality of it. On the EVS activity in Portugal participated one volunteer. Duration of the EVS activity was 6 months, duration of the whole EVS project covered 12 months: 3 months - for the preparation of the activity and 3 months - to do the follow ups, evaluation of the project, dissemination of results and gathering the necessary information etc. for the final report. The selected volunteer was 25 and shared the following skills and values (according the description of the project): enthusiasm and interest in the the projects developed by BYP; open-mind; spirit of adaption and versatility; will to share his/her culture with others; proactivity and willingness to learn and share ideas; ability to relate to children and youth from vulnerable social conditions and ethnic minorities; dynamism and creativity to suggest, plan and develop activities with the target groups. The current project allowed the volunteer to learn about BYP’s work in the field of arts and social integration, to take part in the regular activities and to suggest and help to implement new ideas, contributing to the social development and inclusion of children and youth from underprivileged suburban neighbourhoods, mostly in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (Oeiras County). The volunteer will be involved in the BYP’s daily routines that involve assisting in the planning and execution of workshops and other artistic activities (e.g. african dance and music, construction of masks, theater) and gave tutoring in German and English. During the projects were used the methods of non-formal learning. The volunteer also participated on the EVS trainings and had an opportunity to share her experiences with other volunteers and to reflect on them. Within the activity the volunteer was guided by the task related person and mentor, who helped her to integrate into the local community and make social contacts. The volunteer received a Youth Pass as certificate asserting her experience and learning outcomes. The partner organizations evaluated the project with each other and the volunteer and spread the results of it in the local community in Portugal and in Germany using online resources.