by Esther Solanilla | Nov 22, 2021 | Youth Centres UP
The fourth week began as the third had ended: with a lot of paint. Walls turned yellow, ladders werecarried around and brushes were dipped into buckets until even the last corner of the building hadthe colour of our imagination. A little later, we slowly reached a...
by Esther Solanilla | Nov 11, 2021 | Youth Centres UP
We have been working now directly and indirectly on the realisation of a youth centre for three weeks. The tasks of the second week often coincided with those of the first. In concrete terms, this means that we still mainly scraped and sealed walls and removed...
by Esther Solanilla | Oct 29, 2021 | Youth Centres UP
The first week of the Youth Centres UP 2 project (first team of international volunteers for 30 days), in which an unused heating building is turned into a centre for the youth of a neighbourhood within about a month, started with team building activities.This was...
by Helene Tranier | Oct 10, 2021 | Youth Centres UP
The 10th of October is International Mental Health Day.That is quite a broad topic, but what does it entail exactly?Of course, there is the prominent part: Mental include all the disorders and illnesses of the mind: Paranoia, Bipolarity, Schizophrenia, Split...
by Fatih Kaymakci | Oct 5, 2021 | Youth Centres UP
Before I came to Romania, I thought that one year was too much, but now when I look back, six months have passed so quickly. Even when you move from one place to another in your city, many things change your life. Some of them are conscious, some of them not. So...
by Helene Tranier | Oct 4, 2021 | My EVS experience, Youth Centres UP
About my travel and first week in Romania. If people asked me for how long I have wanted this, I would say that I don’t know. Forever, probably. I think I have always wanted to travel abroad. Even if the plan wasn’t clear for a long time, even if as a...
