Mental health is a worldwide taboo. This difficulty to talk about our mental problems can cause them to grow bigger in our heads. Lack of perspective of our problems can make them look like something so big that we can never overcome it and eventually be a big obstacle to our personal relationships and even [...]

This month, we continue with the monthly vlog of the Building Stronger Communities project. November was greatly different from October. The volunteers stayed in quarantine for 14 days. With this in mind, November's vlog is about overcoming this situation and what we can do to make the most of this time instead of letting it [...]

With the arrival of December, Christmas seems to be getting closer. With this is mind, our international volunteers organized online workshops with Colegiul Economic Pintea Viteazul in Cavnic where they shared their experiences of how Christmas is like in their home countries. Passionatly, the volunteers talked about this special day in Spain, Finland and Portugal. [...]

Today we were discussing how young people can change the world with the kids from Spiru Haret Vocational High School! Our international volunteers shared their personal experiences in their own countries, describing events they have created back in their hometowns or other examples of how young people can make their voices heard.  

1. About the project: F.R.I.E.N.D.S. “F.R.I.E.N.D.S. (Favorire Relazioni Inclusive Europee Non Discriminanti e Solidali)” project will be held in Siderno city (Southern Italy) and its surroundings for 11 months, between 1.10.2020 – 31.03.2022. The period of service for the volunteer will be 1st February – 31st December 2021. The project will host 2 volunteers from [...]

This past Friday we were with the kids from Colegiul Economic Pintea Viteazul Cavnic! We talked about gender-based violence and with this topic also came the gender identity theme. We hope that this workshop helped the kids to be more familiarized with these kind of topics, that are extremely relevant these days. With the teenagers, [...]

It was World Children’s Day on the 20th of November! A day to reimagine a better future for every child. We discussed with the children of the Colegiul Economic Pintea Viteazul Cavnic about the children's rights , had a Kahoot quizz and talked about the ideal school. The project is co-funded by European Union through [...]

Would you like to live a joyful and unique volunteering experience for two months, thanks to which you can create new opportunities in your personal and professional life once back home? Wider Horizon is a short-term volunteering project of Olde Vechte Foundation, that takes place in Ommen, The Netherlands. By participating you have the opportunity [...]

Starting October 2020, YMCA Romania hosts for a period of 11 months 4 young people from European Solidarity Corps , in a project called “Building Stronger Communities” co-funded by European Union. The volunteers are coming from Finland – Sini Tuuli Suominen, Portugal  – Margarida Santana Honorio and Spain – Antonio Salvatierra Ortega and Marina Monje [...]