Volunteer work Cultural & free time Learning activities Accommodation & food In country staff Volunteer work It is evident the need to improve the level of education of Rroma children and to increase the level of cooperation between Roma and Romanian children. The opportunity to implement an EVS project in a community like Lascar Catargiu and particularly in the school number 19 can be described in terms of: Human resources: - the director of the school , Mr. Predus Daniel, together with a teacher for primary school, Ms Ecaterina Ilie and one of the English teachers, engaged themselves in supporting the project during it’s implementation -  the support offered by the teachers consists in: helping the volunteers to integrate in the school; talking to parents and children and explaining them the purpose of the project in order to intermediate the contact between them and the volunteers and win more easy their confidence; helping the volunteers to organise the groups of children and activities Infrastructure/ Material resources: - the school has a sports room; a festivity room and one laboratory of informatics with internet connection - there is a sports field in the school yard - the courses schedule is from 8 a.m.to 12 p.m.- the primary school and from 12 p.m. to 19 p.m.- the gymnasium but there are available daily, three unoccupied classrooms that can be used for extracurricular activities Extracurricular activities: - there is a group of dances formed by a teacher from the school in 2008; the group is mixed- Rroma and Romanian children- and has participated in contests of ethnic dances - the teachers and the children celebrated in 2009 The Day of Rroma people - there is a football team, formed 4 years ago and trained by the sports teacher; the team has a mixed group of children and participates in contests, championships between schools - the school has a sports association called JIEN, that supports the football team and the dances group - as an expectation of the teachers: they would like from volunteers to offer to the children examples of  new teaching and learning methods, more modern, active and practical ones that will attract more the children in schools -the teachers believe that they, together with the volunteers through the children openness and interest in extracurricular activitites, will obtain the parent’s openness too Cultural & free time As the community is situated 30 minutes by foot from the city centre, the opportunities for leisure activities are numerous: museums, parks, theatres, churches, pubs, bars, discos, etc…. CITY TOUR The Nicolae Romanescu Park (Romanian: Parcul Nicolae Romanescu) in Craiova, Romania, is the largest and best-known park in the city. The Romanescu Park-Craiova, it was built between 1900-1903 following the plans of the French architect E. Redont, the project received the gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exhibition. It is one of the biggest, 90 hectares, and most beautiful parks in the country, with many green houses, a lake with islands and a suspended bridge, a small zoo, statues. Botanical Garden - The garden was laid out by the botanist Alexandru Buia and was opened in 1952. The main purpose of the garden was to facilitate the students' activities and research for the academic staff of the Agriculture and Horticulture Faculties of the University of Craiova. The Botanical Garden is organized in six areas: plant systematics, floral provinces of the globe, cultivated plants, seed beds, phyto-geography of the Oltenia region, and a greenhouse. Craiova Art Museum - the building that houses the museum was built in 1896, following the plans of the French architect Paul Gotereau. Its main attraction is the art gallery dedicated to Constantin Brancusi, exhibiting six of his early sculptures (including variants of his best-known works): The Kiss (1907), Vitellius (1898), Woman Torso (1909), The Vainglory (1905), Boy's Head (1906), Miss Pogany(1902). Museum of Oltenia - founded in 1915 and divided into three sections: ethnography, history and natural science. The collection is based on donations made in 1908. Madona Dudu Church - built between 1750 and 1756, renovated in 1844, after being destroyed by an 1831 earthquake. Murals were completed by Gheorghe Tattarescu. The Singing Fountain – situated in the city centre, is a neprlica of the the similar construction in Lisbon, Potugal. Learning activities On arrival, the volunteers will enter in a Capacity Building programme for minimum 7 days and maximum 10 days. During the Capacity Building programme they will receive trainings to build their competences on animation, conflict management, project management, group dynamics, community youth development. Due to the importance of communication with the people from the hosting community (most of them cannot speak any foreign languages) will be of crucial importance for the volunteers to learn the Romanian Language at a good speaking level. The volunteers will have the responsibility to attend all language courses according to the schedule as well as to make every effort in studying and learning the language. The Coordinating Organizations will provide Romanian Language Courses for the entire period of the EVS according to the following draft schedule: The first month – an intensive language course will take place for the Volunteers with a frequency of 2 hours/day – 5 days/ week. The next weeks – the language courses will be provided on to all volunteers with a frequency of 1 session/ week. The language courses will be provided free of charge for the entire period of the EVS project. Throughout the whole project, every single volunteer is to benefit from a personal development plan being coached by trainers and experts to reach his/her personal potential. Accomodation & food All volunteers will be distributed in apartments with 3 and 4 rooms, each volunteer will have his/her own room and will be able to receive guests. The living location will meet decent living standards (private room, free access to kitchen and bathroom, current cold and hot water, functioning heating system, clean and secure location). All accommodation and utility costs (water, gas, electricity) shall be covered by the hosting organization. The hosting organization will provide each volunteer with a monthly food allowance. The allowance is above the average amount that most of the locals spend on food. However, the allowance will not be enough for ensuring every day eating in a restaurant or bistro. There are places in Craiova were you can eat a three course cooked lunch and a decent dinner at a reasonable price. Upon arrival, you will be introduced to the best eating and shopping locations from Craiova. Bear in mind that the amount was calculated according to reasonable food products – and not some specialties or very expensive brands that a middle-income person cannot afford. In county staff ..