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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 Popoveni and particularly in School 27 can be described in terms of:
Human resources:
- the director of the school , Mr. Marica Ion, together with the deputy director Mrs. Carmen Dragomir, the coordinating teacher for primary school Popoveni, Mr Georgică Constantin and one of the English teachers, Mrs. Dumitru Adelina engaged themselves in supporting the project during it’s implementation
Infrastructure/ Material resources:
- there is a sports field in the school yard
- the courses schedule is from 8 to 11:30 - 1st and 2nd grade and from 11:30 to 15 – 3rd and 4th grade, but there are available daily, 2 unoccupied classrooms in the kindergarten that can be used for extracurricular activities after 12 o’clock when small children go home.
Extracurricular activities/ Partnerships:
- the school has several partnerships with other schools from the town and from outside the town; it is noteworthy the partnership with Organizatia Tinerilor cu Initiativa din Arad who is implementing the project ECO GROUPS financed by the Youth in Action Program
- the teachers have experience with only one European programme(the above mentioned partnership ); so implementing an EVS project would be a good occasion to learn more about these programmes
- 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 children are open to extracurricular activities
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.
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