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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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My road back
I’ve always had the feeling that I should do more for the world. I was always interested in helping other people, but until now, I’ve never had the time to think about it and try to research some ways to get into…
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Youth Centres UP is back
We are looking for new local volunteers for the second edition of Youth Centres UP. Youth Centres UP 2 is a long-term project organised by Timis County Youth Foundation (FITT) through the European Solidarity Corps (ESC), in which 10 international volunteers from different countries and local volunteers are involved in setting up 10 new…
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My adventure on the road to Timişoara!
Before I start writing about my trip to Romania, I want to express my immense joy of being here because I have been waiting for so long to come here. I waited a year after I was selected, due to…
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The monthly journal – Spring at its finest – April 2021
This month, the ESC volunteers enjoyed spring at its finest. They took advantage of the great weather and had picnics, were on treasure hunts, city tours, organised and attended various online and offline events. In a word, they weren’t bored at all. April…
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An unprecedented spring
This spring is unprecedented… I can say that spring seems a little strange to me. In the spring, the flowers bloomed. With the wind touching your skin, hope spreads throughout your body. It did not feel that way this time.…