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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…
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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…
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From Agadir to Timisoara (By Ayoub El Fitour)
On my way to my first destination outside Morocco, It’s not easy to leave my beautiful country for a long time but Romania deserves it, especially for a volunteer project. Can you imagine? One of the most important stops was…
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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…
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A day of accomplishment: +1 Youth Centre! (By Esther Ghesquiere)
On the 14th of December, the Youth Centre of Dacia exchanged the noise of construction work, with the sound of a guitar and a beautiful voice. Helped by the youth workers from FITT, the place changed its atmosphere. The opening…
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New team, new experience, new energy (By Esther Ghesquiere)
Here we are on our way to renovating the next Youth Center for the YCUP2 project. For a month, we will make our best to design a welcoming place for the youngsters around the Dacia market. But this project is…
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Last week of our great experience (By Linda Markus)
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…
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Our journey towards change (By Linda Markus)
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…
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The first week of our adventure (By Linda Markus)
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…
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Mental health care for all: let’s make it a reality (Mental Health in an Unequal World)
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,…
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Midway through the volunteering experience
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…
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The right side of the Dream.
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…