#trustful

Story telling

My name is Marlene, I’m 27 years old and I’m from Turin, city rich in history, artistic beauty and food where you can get a good tasty of “Italian spirit". I graduated from bachelor of Public and Political Communication so is it my passion to write content in social media marketing business.

On top of that, since I was a child, I was an active and energetic girl, loving of human contact, so according to these side of character I have, I spent most of my time on supporting social causes trying to do something for people that need my help, co-working with no-profit organizations and promoting an inclusive, welcoming and respectful environment that embraced diversity. I took part in multicultural projects where i was active participant of several non-formal activities about presentations and simulations that helped me so far to develop interpersonal skills and cultural expression.

During my spare time i usually doing lot of sports, but mainly in body building discipline but even swimming, cycling and volleyball. Through doing sport I grow up not only from the point of view of physical performance, but above all on a personal level concerning discipline, constancy, respect and cooperation. In addition to that, i am a curious girl in the fact that I enjoy exploring other places and discovering different cultural habits and precious heritage to visit, taking part in healthy events, having fun with my friends and reading romance.

What makes me move?

I have been knowing Evs project for many years and I was thrilled that I was given the opportunity to live one year of my life abroad encountering people from different backgrounds and talk with them in a different language from my native one. My huge motivation that push me to participate in this mobility project was to transform completely my live and habits, go away from my place in order to improve my self-esteem, willing to risk.

Furthermore, my strong passion of learning languages conducted me to start this experience in the charm Island of Malta surrounded by beautiful beaches. This experience is a great way to give me the opportunity to text myself far away from my “comfort’’ zone, trying to live alone and sharing the flat with other flatmates without the stable and secure presence of my parents. Finally, my wish is to invest on my communicative skills abroad in order to enhance my full potential for my business.

What are my expectations about Evs Project, and how about the fears?

Main Expectations:

I hope that i can get the Evs benefits during my daily life concerning break down bad sides of my character into strengths in order to use them in a smart way. My purpose is to live a social, cultural, linguistic experience by acquiring awareness of active citizenship, doing artistic and training activities. I would like to continuously be included by my supervisor into public relations and events and learning to use a business language. I expect to come up with interactive workshops in social and cultural areas in order to open my horizons, discover new passions and also be able to achieve a good level of English handling in an effective way. My further curiosity is towards to deepen new customs and habits of the ‘’Maltese spirit’’, adapting my traditions to conform and respect local Maltese. I hope to get along with my flatmates and cooperate with them as much as possible, receiving also support on sharing knowledge about CCIF. My expectation concerning both the support of my sending organization during the whole experience and the welfare that my hosting organization should provide for me. I’d like to find my stability abroad, keep staying in Malta as a new person, employees in a job close to my interest.

My Fears regards deal with the temperament adaptation of other ways of thinking, feeling, and acting culture even if after a couple of time I will getting there with a successful results. Therefore, my fears takes places through to face difficulties relating live in unfriendly environment, which opposition sometimes flows into conflict means having misunderstanding with people that surrounded me, far of any bounds or friendly connections, without any support in troubles that I could have. After said that, I’m also scared of lack of fair arrangements, concerning living condition, activities and language courses, cause that could compromise my well being in the name of living in a peaceful way experience in Malta. As additional, it is important to be aware that most of the time difficulties that you have to tackle with could be helpful too. So, although some crucial steps to manage with, you should not be afraid to fail during this personal pathway, as soon as you know how to domino conflicts and build a strong personality.

 Why would I like to work in this project? How do you think to enrich it?

Needless to say, I choose to take part on this project because since the first moment I discovered the mission and the values that this Foundation believe in i immediately applied to work here for a cause that is close to my heart. In particular, I would be able to bring to the team my knowledge in media managements and public relations for instance writing articles, managing projects, assisting in fundraising through creating informational material and disseminating the results on line and off line. These tasks i have, without a doubt, will lead me to use what I have learnt during my university years and my volunteering experiences, improving more my social sensitivity. I’m really pledge on providing benefit for the community with my fresh ideas and the serious commitment to prevent human trafficking through different humanitarian ways of operations. In addition of that, I’m also really motivated to be on charge of carry out interactive workshops with children to educate them from falling victim to human trafficking. So, having a role in ending slavery through organizing educational lessons plans and empathetic activities makes me more responsible and aware of my skills and limitations.