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 little later, we slowly reached a point where things we hadn’t caredabout before suddenly became […]
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 scraped and sealed walls and removed graffiti to prepare them to be painted. At the […]
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 with team building activities.This was followed by a shallow transition to the actual work on […]
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 […]