Make the most of this
So much has happened in such a short time that my head cannot assimilate them all. The permanent roller coaster I am riding on does not give me much respite to stop and think about everything that happened. But I have been in Timisoara for six months now, and the truth is that they have […]
How volunteering changes your life (6 months later)
This year started out as one of the weirdest of my life. If someone told me six months ago everything I was going to live, I would have said, without thinking, that it was not possible to happen. Going out of the comfort zone This is the first thing you experience when you decide to […]
10 reasons to become a volunteer
Hi! My name is Charlie and I am a volunteer in Timis County Youth Foundation, I’ve chosen to volunteer in this organization because it was for me a great opportunity to leave abroad and to do something concrete for other young people like me, somewhere else in the world. I work together with a team […]
All the fun things to do as a volunteer
Hello, are you perhaps interested in volunteering ? As a volunteer myself, I can answer questions, tell you about my experiences and give you all the good reasons to go. But you’re maybe wondering what to do for fun outside of the project during a whole month once you’re here ?… So here is a list of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Step forward into the unknown and assume it will be brilliant
Lately, I have been thinking many times about how I want my future to be. Although things have changed a lot since the last time we could go out without a mask, and we did not have a curfew, life goes on, and we have to adapt to new circumstances. For this reason, after finishing […]
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 […]
SHALL WE GO? –LET’S GO! Change your life
Sometimes, I wonder how something as simple as a single question can change your life that much. -Shall we go? –Let’s go! This is how my conversation with my friend Miriam ended the day we decided to go somewhere else to be volunteers. I have always been a girl who has thought that we all […]
Romania, the place to become change-makers
Several months have passed since we arrived in Romania to volunteer with the ESC project Youth Centres UP 2. Since then, the experience, which is still intense, has gone through different phases. We arrived in Timisoara without many expectations but with a great desire to give the best of ourselves. We found ourselves in a country of solidarity, […]
The Three Musketeers of FITT
This is the story of the three musketeers, namely Armando, Fatih, and Alperen, or Alpi, as known by many. We three met in Timisoara, Romania, a month and a half after the first of us, Alpi, came here. When we first met we did not know what we might have encountered and undergo altogether. After […]