With the start of the New Year, our Digital Youth Work Community of the #AlwaysON for youth project offers you a new fresh topic for discussions, resources, exchange of knowledge and good practices, online events and so much more. We endeavor the Topic of the Month of January - Digital Inclusion - lessons learned through [...]
În vederea conștientizării urgenței climatice în rândul tinerilor, în spiritul misiunii YMCA România de a educa și împuternici tinerii, am dezvoltat un program la care au participat peste 200 de tineri din Baia Mare și Șomcuta Mare, ateliere offline și online unde am abordat diferite teme de importanță climatică, iar la final am susținut o [...]
În vederea conștientizării importanței participării tinerilor la viața comunității, în spiritul misiunii YMCA România de a educa și împuternici tinerii, în perioada iunieaugust 2021, Federația YMCA România a desfășurat o serie de ateliere educaționale în care a consultat tinerii cu privire la problemele pe care le identifică în comunitățile lor. Cu ajutorul acestor ateliere ne-am [...]
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them” - Henri Matisse Dear friends and partners, We are writing you in this awakening time of the year when we celebrate Easter. We are four European Solidarity Corps volunteers – Marina, Marina, Margarida, Cristian - at YMCA Romania, in Baia Mare, serving [...]
Our international volunteer Margarida Honório has been in Bucharest last weekend. She took a break from touristing to participate in an activity organized by "COSI - Civic Orientation and Social Integration", an association that also works with international volunteers in the capital. COSI has organized an afternoon of cycling through Calea Victoriei to promote the [...]
We are pleased to say that last wednesday at 17h our international volunteers have held a World Café event at the Log Out in Baia Mare. This event had the purpose of sharing ideas about climate change and to contribute with what we think could be solutions to this problem. The YMCA's Green Club will [...]
Primul vlog al colegilor internationali realizat dupa prima luna de acomodare si activitati de instruire in Baia Mare, in cadrul proiectului Building Stronger Communities. Check our our international colleagues 1st Vlog - October 2020, created after their 1st month of accommodating and training activities in Baia Mare, Romania in Building Stronger Communities project Shooting and [...]
Some weeks have gone since I last wrote here. It is not always easy to find the space for reflection and it is even harder to write the ideas down. Actually, until this last week, all in my mind was a bit messy and I could not put my thoughts in order; maybe if I [...]
We keep thinking that we are special souls that are living a unique experience. That what we do, what we achieve, what we want out of it is above any previous volunteer's expectations and reality. The EVS makes your feelings stronger, deeper and, therefore, more harmful sometimes. That's why an adventure like this is full [...]
Living abroad and trying new things, meeting new people is wonderful, but it is also a roller-coaster of feelings in many ways. You do not want to miss nothing that it is done and you always have will to try all the possibilities that appear in your way. I must say that I have learnt [...]
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