Blog: A volunteer's actions are a drop in the ocean Living with other cultures is a great way to realise how much we don't know, says ADRA Slovakia volunteer. Martin Pavelka (Source: ADRA Slovakia) Font size:A Martin is an EU Aid Volunteer in Istanbul helping displaced families to integrate into Turkish society through the organisation Small Projects Istanbul. His deployment was a part of the HVA - Humanitarian Volunteers in Action, through the sending organisations ADICE (France), MONDO (Estonia) and ADRA Slovakia, a non-governmental organisation with 27 years of experience in implementing humanitarian, developmental and volunteering projects for those in need in Slovakia and abroad. ADRA Slovakia aims to help people lead dignified and free lives while better preparing them for a possible humanitarian crisis.