Solidarity for Lugoj: painting the youth centre (by Syed Musaib Hussain)
During the renovation of the building in the 4th week in Lugoj, we were no more working in groups, but rather everyone was joining some company and started to work while laughing and talking to each other. We worked a lot on walls and windows, we cleaned them and started painting, and the colleagues were really […]
Positive vibes from the community (by Yogesh Kumar)
In the 3rd week of the project, we got our positive vibes volunteer, Yogesh Kumar, back. We started working as one team rather than splitting into four groups. As a solo team, every volunteer helped his or her colleague and tried each group’s task. In this way, we tried each kind of work without getting bored by one work. However, the work was more physical, but being energised by our committed and […]
Working for the youth centre of Lugoj (by Syed Musaib Hussain)
The first week of the project Solidarity for Lugoj aimed to build the team and learn teamwork and lots of things necessary to accomplish the work. So in the 2nd week, we gathered in the youth centre and the president of FITT divided us into 4 groups and assigned tasks for building renovation. I would […]
Volunteering shadowing in Craiova, January 2021
Some of the ESC volunteers from Timișoara participated for 3 days in a volunteering shadowing programme in Craiova, where they exchanged experiences and good practices with local volunteers and presented their projects to each other. They also had the chance to visit and explore a new town of Romania. The plurality and contradiction of architecture in Romania simply fascinates me. My working experience there showed me how different things […]
Volunteers in Romania – winter holidays 2020
2020 was so different than what we expected: shortly after coming to Timișoara (Romania) through the ‘Set the Tempo’ project, the pandemic started – and what happened next really challenged us. We stepped out of our comfort zone and adapted ourselves and our activity to the context. We’ve learnt a lot, tested different kinds of activities in order to make the youth get involved and we rediscovered ourselves and our potential. We managed to make it ‘till […]