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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…