On the 10th of April YMCA’s international volunteers went with the forrest district of Firiza and Rotary Baia Mare to plant trees and bring back to life an area in which the trees had been cut before. This action took place to raise awareness on the importance of forests and what it takes to keep [...]

As the "Building Stronger Communities" project continues, the vlogs keep coming out for each month. This time, the video took a different approach. It doesn't have footage of the people in the project or of anything with three dimensions. It's based on images and sound. As the volunteers are around halfway through this project, it [...]

Federația YMCA România a demarat programul YMCA Green Club care are ca scop creșterea gradului de conștientizare cu privire la reciclare și consum adecvat, încurajând factorii de decizie să adapteze politicile de reciclare urmare unei recomandări create după consultările cu tinerii din Baia Mare și Șomcuta Mare. Programul YMCA Green Club face parte din proiectul [...]

Last Friday (the 26th of March) international and local volunteers from Baia Mare got together to clean Lake Firiza. This was the first of the many cleaning actions that will follow in the YMCA's Green Club. It's very important to protect these green spaces that are so precious for the community, as well as the [...]

This Tuesday our international volunteers were in Firiza in Asociația Mansio to teach something new to the kids of the community. They brought materials such as wood sticks and wool and teached the kids some new skills. Making mandalas with these materials is not only about learning a new craft, you are also improving you [...]

Our international volunteers from the "Building Stronger Communities" project have shared with us their experience volunteering in YMCA Romania once again, as they do every month. This video shows us very shortly the type of things that have happened in February in the life of the volunteers: traveling, participating in activities with the community, doing [...]

Bianca was sent by YMCA Romania to collaborate with Old Vechte Foundation on an ESC Project (The Extra Miles) in Ommen, in the Netherlands. She will be there for one year, and we were very curious to know how her experience has been so far, so we asked her to send us a small testimonial [...]

On the 19th of February we all watched the "YMCA Work with Refugees and Migrants" online conference. It was a very informative experience for all of us, given the high level of speakers there. We truly appreciated to have such a deep insight on different perspectives, because the speakers came from different backgrounds, such as [...]

During the last two weeks the international volunteers have been doing workshops with Colegiul Economic Pintea Viteazul in Cavnic about sustainable lifestyle. We started with questions to the kids about this type of lifestyle and discovered that when it comes to food, the kids know some good sustainable practices. Since they live in Cavnic, a [...]

Updated edit: 29.01.2021 -We are looking for 2 volunteers from any EU country to complete the team of this project. ( citizens or residents) Activity dates: service between 1.03.2021-31.08.2021 with the possibility to extend 1 month ( 31.09.2021) Deadline to apply: 14.02.2021 Other info,  CV and motivation letter to be sent to office@ymca.ro till 14.02.2021. [...]