BeWelcome News

The countdown is on for the first BIG event to celebrate BeWelcomes 10th anniversary:

Come to Berlin from April 28th to May 1st and join a loooong weekend full of activities, meet the city with its touristy and off the beaten track sights, and most of all: Meet other BeWelcome members and have a good time together!

Here is the program that the local BeWelcomers put together for you:
http://www.bewelcome.org/activities/1762

Please have a look at the different activities and join them separarely to…

Some days ago active BeWelcome volunteers found a little surprise parcel in their mailbox. Not a virtual messge but a real envelope containing a designed mouse pad. Isn't this beautiful?

One of those members is JJ_T who volunteers in the Translation Team:

"Getting a present from BeWelcome was an unexpected and pleasant surprise. Most volunteers organize their task over the BeWelcome forum and rarely see each other in person. Now I have a 'real object' right next to my notebook that serves…

In 80 days around the world – that was my first thought when I noticed that we reached the target of 2000 Euros for the donation campaign 2016/2017 within 80 days. A BIG THANK YOU to each single of the donors!

Here are some statistics:

The donation campaign started on December 10th 2016 and finished February 28th 2017

68 donations added up to reach our goal. On the average this means that we received almost every day a donation.

The average donation was approximately 30 Euro.

Biggest…

February 2007: BeWelcomes website went online
February 2017: The Communication Team sent out a press release to almost 450 journalists and bloggers

Many of those journalists and bloggers who are interested in our way of living, sharing and traveling are already members of our community. One of them is osamabayoumi - a fairly new member from Egypt.
This was the first message he received from BeWelcome. He was so happy about it that he immediately posted it in his social media accounts. He sent a…

I send a thank you message to another member who donated more than the average. BeWelcome member harvski gave 100 Euros. I asked him why he decided to donate - and here is his very insightful answer:

"I really hope that BeWelcome becomes more popular as it's such a lovely thing to host and be hosted by people just for the joy of it. I've been participating in these sorts of communities for many years and have made many amazing friends. As an IT professional I know how much it costs to host…

It happened again: One member donated one tenth of the money we need for a whole year. We are VERY grateful for this! Thank you!

Matchi1981 - a German living in China - donated 200 Euros. This one donation enables BeWelcome to run for  about 5 to 6 weeks.

I asked Matchi1981 why he donated such a big sum. Here is his answer:

"After I became a BeWelcome member and got used to this website, I was looking for an opportunity to support this community as back in 2013 I was very interested in…

The Duck is active again!

For the 6th time the super-active BeWelcome community of Toulouse (southern France) invites everybody to help them „Seek the Duck“.

The programm is not fixed yet – but will surely be as diverse, interesting and cool as the previous times where they organized a treasure hunt, wine tasting, picknick, music and party and much more.

Join here:

https://www.bewelcome.org/activities/1741

I could hardly believe my eyes when I checked the incoming donations and found out that BeWelcome has just received one of the biggest donation in its history: Member saraedum donated 200 Euros - one tenth of our donation goal 2016/2017.

Big thank you from whole BeWelcome goes to Columbia where saraedum is travelling at the moment!

I asked him about his motivation to donate this much money. Here is his answer:

"I am travelling now full time for almost two years. Honestly I think it is a pity…

Thanks to the time and skills donated by our volunteers BeWelcome only needs about 2000€ to cover expenses for the coming year. If you enjoy BeWelcome and would like to contribute, even just 1€, $ or £, you can do so at http://www.bewelcome.org/donate.

If you would like to volunteer your skills, you can have a look at http://www.bewelcome.org/about/getactive and contact the BeWelcome volunteer coordinator sammiekong.

This year’s General Assembly was held in Venice, Italy. Seven members of BeVolunteer were physically present, one BeWelcome member. Several BeVolunteer members followed the discussions online.

There was a very constructive atmosphere which made it possible to talk and decide about a lot of topics:

• We had to say goodbye to some older and inactive members. We did this in an official way, so that later this year we could change our Statutes accordingly. Approximately 10 other members will receive…