REPORT OF THE ACTIVITIES - Octomber 2011

REPORT OF THE ACTIVITIES ON OCTOBER 2011

ROMANIA

-          Organization of the Project meeting in Bucharest during 15 - 18.10.2011;

-          Elaboration and administration of the project’s Blog;

-          We contact the members of the NGO Provita from Valea Plopului (http://aoffr.free.fr/html/pv_particularitate_ro.html) - we began  the first volunteering activity by collecting goods (food, clothing, footwear and toys) for the orphans there;

-          Presentation of the school for the webpage and Blog;

-          Articles for the e-magazine about the Profile of a volunteer?

-          Designing and preparing the logo of the common project.

TURKEY

-          Designing and preparing the logo of the common project;

-          Presentation of the school for the webpage and Blog;

-     Collaboration with a non-proffit organization "LOSEV";

-     Articles in e-magazine about Profile of a volunteer.

PORTUGAL

-          Articles for the e-magazine about the Profile of a volunteer;

-          Designing and preparing the logo of the common project;

-          Presentation of the school for the webpage and Blog;

-       CLUBE COMENIUS has started.  Students show interest and motivation during the sessions (twice a week – on Tuesday and Friday at 1 p.m). Here we prepare the activities to be held very soon.

SPAIN

-          Articles for the e-magazine about the Profile of a volunteer;

-          Designing and preparing the logo of the common project;

-          Presentation of the school for the webpage and Blog;

-     Teachers meeting to talk about our stay in Romania;

-     Students meeting to talk about the project and to learn about our partners´ countries.

-     We made a mural with flags and main cities of the participant countries.

-     We made a collect of plastic bottle caps to help “El Club de Leones” Association, to get wheelchairs for disable children.

-    We contacted the members of the NGO “ATAN” to talk about the protocol for our common activities

Volunteer Profile: Done with 5^th and 6^th level students

We sent the volunteer profile to Portugal

Logo Contest: Families and pupils work together to create a Logo for our project

Meeting with a Non Profit Organization Member.

 

POLAND

-          Articles for the e-magazine about the? Profile of a volunteer;

-          Presentation of the school for the webpage and Blog;

-          Mobility for the project meeting in Bucharest - deciding on actions, meetings;

-          Discussion- choosing and deciding on actions to be done at school.  Making a list and terms of things to do;

-          A feature of a good Volunteer- discussion and preparing the poster with pupils;

-          Save the environment action- students prepared different posters with different sentences encouraging to protection of the environment. Later on the children, changed into trees, marched from school to the local library where the posters were left;

-          Designing and preparing the logo of the common project (the logo sent to Spanish teacher).

   

   

   

ITALY

-          Articles for the e-magazine about the Profile of a volunteer.

-          Designing and preparing the logo of the common project;

-          Presentation of the school for the webpage and Blog;

BULGARIA

-          Articles for the e-magazine about the Profile of a volunteer.

-          Designing and preparing the logo of the common project;

-          Presentation of the school for the webpage and Blog;

PRESENTATION of partner's LOGOs for the selection

Romanian Logo

 

Turkish Logo

        

Portuguese Logo

Spanish Logo

Polish Logo

Italian Logo

Bulgarian Logo

A PROFIL OF A VOLUNTEER

                           WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A GOOD VOLUNTEER ?

ROMANIA

-     Volunteers can be girls or boys, women or men, young adults or elderly, students, employed, unemployed, homemakers or retirees, people from the country or city, healthy or disabled people, Christians, Jews, Muslims or any other religion.

-     A volunteer is a person who takes the initiative and not expects things around him to improve by itself.

-     A volunteer is a person who freely gives of his time and the skills to the others around him who need help.

Some say that volunteers are idealists who believe they can change the world. We say that volunteers are realistic because they prove, by their actions, that they can change it.

PORTUGAL
A volunteer should:
        -   support a cause that he truly believes in;
        -   feel the personal satisfaction of helping others;
        -   try to make the world a better place;
        -   enjoy to meet new people, and make new friends;
        -   use his own skills and experience to help and enrich the local community;
        -   not expect to be rewarded for his work;
        -   be willing to learn from others; have an opened mind, a willingness to do whatever is    needed, and a positive attitude

SPAIN

Being a good volunteer

-   Being a good volunteer is thinking about others;

-   A good volunteer is the one who does not expect anything in return;

-   A good volunteer is someone who enjoys helping others;

-   A perfect volunteer is someone who puts some others ‘needs to his own ones;

-   A good volunteer is someone who tries to make a better world.

POLAND

A good volunteer (pupils and teachers) should be:

-    Always ready to help;

-    Responsible and systematic;

-    Sensitive to the suffering of others;

-     Reasonable and caring;

-     A person who gives a good example of his/ her behavior;

-     Tolerant to others.

And we think the most important is that A GOOD VOLUNTEER SHOULD BE ALWAYS PLEASED TO PERFORM HIS/ HER DUTIES.

ITALY

-     A good volunteer worries about others before worrying about himself;

-     A good volunteer prefers giving much more than receiving;

-     A good volunteer considers the needs of others regardless of race, religion and nationality;

-     A good volunteer aims at making the world a better place to live in;

-     A good volunteer is one who is capable of saving, caring, sharing and cooperating without expecting anything in return.

PRESENTATION OF THE PROJECT’S PARTNERS SCHOOLS

PRESENTATION OF THE PROJECT’S PARTNERS SCHOOLS

1.       ROMANIA - SCOALA Nr.10 "MARIA ROSETTI", Bucharest

School no.10 Maria Rosetti  is placed in a district of Bucharest with a stable population formed mostly by middle-class families. The school has a little number of pupils with special needs, migrants, refugees, but has a great number of pupils belonging to different ethnical communities (Armenian, Macedonian, Rroma, Jewish, Arabian) and different religions (orthodox, Greatcoats, Romano–catholic, muslins, mosaic and others). The pupils who have graduated this school are among the first accepted in all Bucharest high schools.

2.      TURKEY - SULTANTEPE İLKÖĞRETİM OKULU, ISTANBUL

Our school is situated in Üsküdar in İstanbul. Üsküdar has got almost 600000 inhabitants. It is a big and historical district .The school has got 42 teachers. We have got 750 pupils from 6 to 14 ages. Their families work in different sectors; official, worker, private managers, etc. We have got 15 classrooms, 1 laboratory, 1 conference hall. Also there is a kindergarten. But we will have a new and modern building next year. The school has got powerful parents’ euro-chambers that can solve lots of problems. They help to poor pupils families. We have got good relation with students’ parents, so we succeed.

3.      PORTUGAL - AGRUPAMENTO NO 3 DE ESCOLAS DE ÉVORA, ÉVORA

Escola Básica Santa Clara is situated in the centre of the old town in an ancient convent which was founded in 1452. In 1903 the nouns left the convent and between 1911 and 1936 it was one of the army headquarters. In 1951 it became a school. There are 24 classrooms, 2 gymnasiums, 2 computer rooms and some offices. There is a beautiful library, a canteen, a playground in the back and a lovely cloister with a fountain.

    

4.      SPAIN - COLEGIO RODRÍGUEZ GALVÁN, SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE

Our school is located in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the capital of Tenerife Island, Spain. We live in a small island, with lots of beaches and the biggest mountain in Spain called El Teide. It´s a beautiful island with warm weather all the year, so you can easily go to the beach in February 17 teachers work in our school and around 190 students attend classes. It´s a Primary school and our family’s social level is low-middle class. Our main object in this project is to involucrate our community in the school activities, and makes them conscious about the importance of being a volunteering member.

5.      POLAND - SZKOŁA PODSTAWOWA IM. STANISŁAWA POLAKOWSKIEGO, STRZYŻOWICE

Our primary school under the auspices of Stanisław Polakowski is located in the center of the countryside, surrounded by houses and fields. Despite the fact Stzyżowice country is located in Silesia region, which is highly industrial, the school is situated in a clean and beautifully green area. The school has got an integrated department, which means that we also teach disabled children. Our children have got many disadvantages. There are children who cooperate with different clinics and doctors because of their speaking, hearing or sight problems. However, our children’s disabilities are not very complex. Our school is of rural kind, this is why our children come from different environments. There are families who face different financial problems. These families need social help.

6.      ITALY - ISTITUTO TECNICO PARITARIO "MICHELANGELO",  SCORDIA

Istituto Tecnico Commerciale e per Geometri Paritario Michelangelo, has offered high quality of education for over 25 years. It is located in Scordia, a mainly agricultural town in south-eastern Sicily. Its main aim is to enable its students, some of which are ex high school drop-outs, to obtain a diploma that will give them a chance to fit into specific work fields or continue their studies at university.   Students can choose from two main courses of study, the Economic Sector, that is, Business Administration, Finance, Marketing and Tourism, and the Technological Sector, which regards Tectonics, the study of the environment and territory, and computer science. Besides these two main courses of study, students can also attend afternoon English language courses and computer science courses to obtain the ECDL. Since Institute Michelangelo wants to offer its students the best facilities, it is going to move to another building in January 2012.

Michelangelo Institute from Scordia

The Statue of the Virgin Mary on a column in the town centre - better known as “la Colonna”

 

7.   BULGARIA - HRISTO BOTEV SECONDARY SCHOOL, ARCHAR

The school is situated in a community that mostly consists of people who get their living from agriculture and small-scale factories or who work in the service sector. It is a mixed secondary school. The pupils of the school come not only from Archar but also from neighbouring village. Because of the recession throughout the industrialized world, many of the small and mid-ranged companies in the area, like around the country and the world, have been forced to cut back on the number of employees. So unemployment in the area is rather high and we have many unemployed parents and it reflects upon the school society. Many parents went abroad in search for work and their children are taken care of by their grandparents, who can’t do it so properly like their mother and father. They mostly take care rather of their living conditions than of educating.