Stories of Our Volunteers

Medics on the street in Ostrava help to break down social barriers. Help them and join the sock collection

12th December 2023

Help the homeless during the winter months — just bring one sock or more to the collection point. It should be clean, washed, or brand new. The collection is organised by Medics on the Street, which connects future health professionals who are interested in the issue of homelessness and the provision of health care to people in need.

“I learned how social work is different in other countries,” says a student, Veronika Sikorová, describing her volunteer work in Kenya.

18th July 2023

I spent a wonderful 28 days in Kenya on the Island of Hope as part of the OU AID programme. I am studying social work, so I have always been attracted to volunteering. Therefore, through the Faculty of Social Studies of the University of Ostrava, I went with the partner organisation Centrum Narovinu and worked at the local orphanage. I had no expectations, but rather fears, but the opposite was true.

Yelyzaveta Mys: If everyone does at least something, it’s a hundred percent more than if we decide to do nothing at all

5th May 2022

Yelyzaveta Mys is a pianist and student at the University of Ostrava, originally from Ukraine. She came to us from Donetsk, which has been under occupation for eight years, and she is now experiencing the war conflict in Ukraine for the second time. But she herself is guided by the motto: “The greater evil you observe, the greater good you will do.”