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  • Volunteering Stories: A man from Nantes in Romania – by Arthur

    • 11 May 2021
    • Posted by: Team for Youth Association
    • Category: Volunteering Stories
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    I used to study in the field of computer science but despite obtaining a diploma, I realized that this was not what I wanted to build my life on. I then chose to start volunteering in order to open myself to the world, to discover new domains, cultures and to meet people from different origins.

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  • Volunteering Stories: About Christmas in Romania – by Megane

    • 9 December 2020
    • Posted by: Team for Youth Association
    • Category: Fără categorie, Volunteering Stories
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    Hello, my name is Megane, I am 25 years old and I’m a volunteer in the association Team for Youth in Baia Mare, Romania. I come from Angers, a city in the West of France. In France, many Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus, but Christmas has become highly secularized and is no longer necessarily

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  • Volunteering Stories: Segregation between Roma people and Romanian people? – by Hattie

    • 23 September 2020
    • Posted by: Team for Youth Association
    • Category: Volunteering Stories
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    Hattie and kids from Pirita

    When I was in Paris and I saw Roma gypsy people begging for money i thought « It’s so bad for them to feel unwelcome because they beg for money in the train. I think in their country [Romania] they are welcomed and not discriminated because it’s their home ». But I discover the truth when I arrived in Baia Mare, Romania.

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  • EVS Stories: The perfection is in the imperfection (VI) – by Chloe Colinet de Labeau

    • 6 February 2017
    • Posted by: Team for Youth Association
    • Category: Volunteering Stories
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    I am not a morning person, in fact I use two alarms: my phone and a radio alarm, and set the alarm 1 hour before having to wake up, it rings, rings, and rings, until the moment where I  finally get up. Then, eyes closed, I dress a pullover, try to walk to the kitchen

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  • The ”charging month” (II) – by Chloe Colinet de Labeau

    • 4 August 2016
    • Posted by: Team for Youth Association
    • Category: Volunteering Stories
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    We began to work for the Ioana Maria Association, which was created by a parent of the child with disabilities. It’s a very exciting and really interesting job. We take care of children with the help of some parents, and also Alex, psychotherapist, who is an amazing person. We organize courses with different things, the goal being to improve their physical abilities and the capacity of concentration.

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  • EVS Stories – Citizen of the world

    • 27 June 2016
    • Posted by: Team for Youth Association
    • Category: Volunteering Stories
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    Hello, my name is Jennifer! I am 26 years old. Before my volunteering I was a working. I was a social integrated French girl willing to discover the world but afraid of making the first step. One day I realized it was time to go and I started to look for volunteering that could make me rich of new culture and knowledge, and I fell in love with T4UTH project. It was exactly what I was looking for: working with children in Romania!

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