This is my seventh blog and they said that seven is a magical number. Maybe that is why this week have been very successful. Everything started with an idea of my friend Catarina. A classical idea, nothing new but very needed. The idea was to make a collect of clothes, shoes and toys that the [...]

Hello everybody!!! I strike back again!!! I spent the whole Chistmas holidays in San Fernando (Cádiz, Spain) with my family and friends. This holidays use to be very special for me, concretely the day that we celebrat the most is the 6th of January. Maybe for you this date is not importan but in Spain [...]

Who is YMCA175 for? Aimed at 16 to 35 year old young leaders from around the world, the programme will provide opportunities for all delegates to engage, with the event open to all young people, young at heart, and adults at every level of YMCA, including staff and volunteers past and present. YMCA175 will connect [...]

Irina Georgiana Stroia, is 29 years old and  she´s from Romania. She has a degree in International Environmental and a master level in Energy Law. She decided to change a little bit the way how to live and to see her life so since mid-May 2018 she´s in Norway doing volunteering in an organization called [...]

These last two weeks have been very emotional for me. I went back to France for one week for Christmas. It allowed me to spend time with my friends and family. Two of my friends then followed me to my return to romania to celebrate the first of the year here in baia mare with [...]

The month of December begins with this magical Christmas atmosphere. Here again even more because the city is filled with beautiful decorations as I love them, the first snowflakes are falling and receive little chocolates and gifts for the Saint Nicholas of the people around me, gives me a taste of Christmas and filled me [...]

It's been almost 2 months now that i'm in romania. We have to start our mission with the children in schools, foster houses... We also participate in differently events in the city ( flasmob with other volunteers of another associations the event against domestic violence...). Here it's starting to get cold, i put on my [...]

And after the calm, here comes the storm... Something changed this week. The previous week were more or less relaxed: we had the Summit, we started to go to some schools, we organised activities, etc. But this week was an explossion of work. Somedays I had no time even to think. We were going to [...]

Once upon a time there was an andalusian sheppard... that decided to travel far far away... The last weekend was the mandatory on-arrival training for all the volunteers that came to Romania in the past two months. So,imagine, 75 people from 11 countries and even more cultures, all together in a hotel working together. I [...]