Breaking Down Gender Stereotypes: Young Voices on Gender Equality
On March 26, 2025, our Youth4Ukraine volunteering team hosted a gender-themed event at the West University of Timisoara. Our goal? To raise awareness about gender equality and analyze how gender stereotypes are perceived by young university students. Our strategy? Engaging activities, fun games, interactive discussions, and a survey, with some sweet rewards along the way […]
Heart-warming analytics from our ESC UKR projects
Our short-term ESC volunteering teams in high-priority areas projects support Ukrainian refugees and migrants as they integrate, socialize, feel empowered, and express their talents and knowledge. We understand that adolescence is already a sensitive age, and being away from familiar environments, friends, and everything they once knew makes it even harder to adapt. That’s where […]
ANALOG MANIA – The final touches!
In this week’s episode, we are getting closer and closer to the opening of the exhibition. After two weeks of a lot of stairs, up and down, up and down! FREE GYM, we love it! The glutes are going to be amazing after the end of the project! We finalized all the hard work with […]
ANALOG MANIA – Let the adventure begin!!
Once upon a time a group of young people decided to join for 1 full month an amazing volunteering project happening in the beautiful city of Timisoara, in Romania, with the goal to support the Analog Mania Festival. The first days of the experience were dedicated to team building activities with youth workers from FITT, […]
My first 3 weeks in Romania (by Antton Gorrochategui)
2 months ago, I was looking for some volunteering projects in the European Solidarity Corps portal. When I found the FITT opportunity, I was like, “Wow, what an interesting project, but what is FITT? What do they do exactly? How is Romania? How is living in Romania? How are Romanians?” I have never known someone […]
The short terms of April – May share their experience
A handful of short-term European volunteers recently finished their one-month volunteering project in Timișoara. Below, there are some of the testimonials about their experience. Georgia: This voluntary project has provided me with many opportunities. First of all, the opportunity to visit Romania and discover its astonishing culture. It also gave me the opportunity to learn […]
A new home in Lugoj (by Madalena Carreiro)
I have been in Lugoj for a bit less than 3 weeks, but it feels like it’s been more time. It is very different from where I live in Portugal but somehow it kind of feels like home. It’s very comforting, everyone is very welcoming and nice. It is weird to think it has already […]
Introspection of an isolation week (by Diana Cordeiro)
After two absolutely amazing weeks in Lugoj, all hell broke loose for me. I am indeed talking about what we have all been dealing with for the last 2 years, Covid. It was the first time I had to be absolutely locked in a room and it felt like everything was falling apart. It’s a […]
Why being an international volunteer in Lugoj (by Pauline Cornec)
Last summer I was an au pair in England for 3 months and it was my first experience abroad alone. I really enjoyed it because I met good people, I improved my English and I discovered myself. This period has changed a lot of things in my life and made me realize that I’m not […]
From Portugal to Lugoj (by Madalena Carreiro)
In my last year of secondary school, I decided that I wanted to go abroad and be a volunteer. As the school year got close to an end, I realize that I had made, for sure, the right decision. I felt the need to go away, to do something different. I had been living in […]
My way to Lugoj (by Diana Cordeiro, Portugal)
I arrived in Lugoj about a week and a half ago to start the Youth Centres Up 2 project with FITT, and that’s how I got involved. Volunteering has always been one of my interests and I could never find anything in the area where I lived. When I found out about ESC and all […]
Youth centre: last week of work (by Syed Musaib Hussain)
We are in the last week and everyone is active. The team is working hard to accomplishing the finishing part of the Building Renovation. The finishing part of the youth centre includes painting the walls, decoration of inside walls, cleaning all the floors and gardens and fixing the scratched and painted windows. The FITT team […]