“Challenge YOU and Your community”- EVS project

I am starting a new adventure today!

After different challenges in application process and after high level of stress waiting the results my project - "Challenge YOU and YOUR community"was accepted!!! This is a one year adventure because Turkey capture my soul so why I should not use my skills, experience and energy for making a change as well in Turkish society?

I have what is needed: skills, motivation and large options of possibilities of change in Turkish Society. I have big expectation for this year and I hope I will reach all my objectives.

Below you can find more information about this project and initiative and in the upcoming months i will come back with more information about how Turkey “receives” me and updates about how I am implementing my project.

The aim of the project is to stimulate the active participation (as a value of European Union) of young people in problems that concern today society by using participative art, creative street animation methods and innovative campaigns.

I will realise a stage of 12 months in Turkey. The project is representing my idea based on my volunteering experience and skills and I want to put them in practice in a society that needs and that is also attracting me from the cultural point of view.

The methods that will be used in this project :

• social theatre as a method of social intervention
• non formal education workshops on development education
• street campaigning

The objectives of the project are:

• to train more than 60 young people to be multipliers in social theatre
• to raise awareness and personal involvement in what matters the Millennium Goals for Turkish general young people.
• to implement various campaigns that raise awareness in different topics (additional more than 50 young people will be trained and develop street campaigning skills
• to stimulate the volunteering among young people
  

Individual EVS project ; Sending organization: A.R.T. Fusion Romania (click)

Hosting Organization: TOG Turkey ;

Stage period: 10february 2009– 10 February 2010

EVS – European Voluntary Service (implemented trough Youth in Action Programme – Action 2)

(Project applied at Romanian National Agency of Youth in Action Programme (click))

"India" like a street dog

These days are 3 months from the day I left India....

Is taking me a lot of time to gather my thoughts about this experience and share it with people across countries...

I said to myself during my 2 month there:

• I will never go back to this country,
• I don’t like this people...
• sometimes I was hating them,
• they are full of stupid pride about being an Indian
• Is terrible to feel totally ALONE in a overpopulated country
• Is horrible to carry years of history (that is not even yours) in your skin colour and not receiving any chance to be different
• ..............

Time is passing...the experience I had there is following me like street dog looking/waiting for something.....

I move on the personal disappointment and try to understand!

I will go back...BUT never alone!

I will go back with details on the blog also ...(alone;)

Meanwhile, home work until the next post : what is the first thing that comes in your head when you think about India???