While travelling outside the office or the youth centre, the volunteer will always be accompanied by someone in the organization and will never be allowed to go to the organization's activities alone. Onda Verde also will ever work against volunteer's will. The volunteer can always choose whether to participate or not in the activities that they find dangerous or inappropriate. What concerns the psychological issues, we can ensure the appropriate actions, as organization has many trained employees in psychology and sociology working there. Besides the members of our organization will always organize several activities for our volunteers and help them to integrate better in the local society thus providing a voluntary safe and secure environment to live in. Knowing the meaning of the old saying that "The lack of communication is the basis of all wars." Onda Verde is going to organize many informal meetings and trips for the volunteers to feel more comfortable and get to know as much from Portugal as possible during their time here. We also inform our volunteers about the opportunities offered by Youth as Helpdesk, and we strongly encourage our volunteers to meet with other European volunteers in Portugal in order to share the experiences and to feel more comfortable and happy. We will also make sure that the volunteers do not engage in the environment of alcohol or any other substance abuse, neglect, bullying or discriminations by inviting them to meet people and engage in activities in the activities that promote opposite life style. What concerns the information about the actions and the help in Emergency situations, on the first meeting we give the volunteers the information about the local hospitals, Fire station as well as Police Office, nevertheless this information also always is posted on the wall in a very seen place in the working place of the volunteers because we are working with the children and obviously that is one of the main things we have organized and also offer a special trainings for our employees, volunteers as well as the children of the centre of how to react in emergency situations. Even more in every situation we encourage the volunteers also to ask the mentor or the supervisor of the project to ask for help as they would never refuse the help but would do all the best to help in every situation.
Motivation and EVS experience The main reason why Onda Verde wants to participate in European Voluntary Service projects is the exchange of intercultural experiences that the volunteers as and the members of the organization share during the service time. We find the EVS a great opportunity for volunteers and members of organization as well as the whole local society to have new experiences in many aspects, among them the most strongest one - the notion of European awareness and the power of being united in European Union and being able to share the knowledge. During the time of hosting the EVS volunteers in our organization we have the opportunity to learn a lot of from this person besides the volunteer brings new ideas and new challenges for the daily work of the organization. We find the volunteer as a good example for members of organization and other youngsters as the experience shows that the presence of the volunteers motivates them for better achievements as well as motivate them in participating in different projects of program "Youth in Action", especially in EVS action. Volunteer in Onda Verde is the person who gives his\her support and assistance in every day work of Onda Verde, helping in designing and carrying out many different environmental activities and many other interesting events. The organization Onda Verde (Green Wave) has already seven years experience with hosting EVS volunteers. The organization is hosting volunteers since 2004. Onda Verde has been hosted ten volunteers (2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 ) and right now there