Periods of stages:

        activities take place between 1st of June 2009 and 1st of March 2010 in stages of 4 – 12 months, starting with:

• 1st of June 2009 - 16 volunteers
• 1st of September2009 - 17 volunteers
• 1st of December 2009 - 16 volunteers
• 1st of March 2010 - 17 volunteers
• 1st of June 2010 - 16 volunteers
• 1st of September 2010 - 17 volunteers

Activities:

1.      Street animation

    Do you enjoy working with kids? Do you like fishing game, making jewelry, face painting, bag jumping, drawing? Here is your place!!!

2. Activities in youth centers and youth camps

Interested in promoting events organised by the local youth structures and local communities?

Interested in discovering the ethno-cultural diversity from one place, developing the abilities achieved in an educational context, loosing prejudices and be more tolerant towards others and other cultures? Here is your place.

We teach you intercultural sensitivity, empathy and confidence in yourself. You learn about civic rights , get more knowledge about the roles and responsibilities of institutions of these kind in our society, you learn how to act with solidarity with local communities and people and you will know what means to respect values of equality and privacy.

3. Corporate Social Responsibility

A concept whereby organizations consider the interests of society by taking responsibility for the impact of their activities on shareholders, communities as well as the environment. This obligation is seen to extend beyond the statutory obligation to comply with legislation and sees organizations voluntarily taking further steps to improve the quality of life for employees and their families as well as for the local community and society at large.

4. Intercultural communication Training

To be a good intercultural communicator means to have real abilities in understanding the others and their perspective of thinking. These abilities have to be developed and improved permanently. There are the main thing in achieving each interpersonal ability and the more you know about how this things work, the better you will know how to communicate.

Individual communication?

How does the communication actually works?

Methods or ways of communication going through conflict resolution and much more expects you. Verbal or non-verbal, we all communicate. Let’s do it well!

5. Or blood donation campaign

We believe everybody can imagine life and death, everybody knows how it is to see a man suffering, an injured man, a baby borned with problems, persons that can live (or not!) depending on (or not...) a reserve of blood.  Depending on the possibility and willingness to donate of everyone of us.

In the first days of the project, our volunteers are introduced to our members, he/she can see the town, opportunities, main partners, host organization, the main partners of or organization, the role of each colleagues. Then, he/she will receive information about the project and the tasks which he/she will have.

The mentor will have a regular meeting with our volunteer and also every time when is needed.

We are going to organize different evaluation sessions with programme coordinator and also with the mentor to see results and difficulties which appeared and if there are some problems, to be solved. These sessions will take place once in a two weeks period. Also, in connection with objectives which we had, at the end of the project we can make a final evaluation which can be very useful for our organization and our volunteer.

     Through the project we will also:

ü       cover food (from a local canteen, in an university or high school or provide the equivalent of that in money if  you/the volunteers want(s) to prepare it by yourself/himself/herself), accommodation (in a flat with double room in general, but it’s possible to have some other conditions in the communities, as well), and pocket money (60 €/month)

ü       provide mobile phones and internet access (mainly in all the places where you/the volunteers will have activities)

ü       provide a mentor, a local coordinator and a Romanian lessons teacher

ü       give opportunity to your/the volunteer(s) to develop own initiatives and to travel around in order to discover the Romanian culture, customs and traditions as well as life style

What you have to do if you are:

Sending organisation

·         be accredited as a sending organization (meaning to have an EI reference number which will have to be sent to us, in case you have one, some don’t need)

·         take a look here:   http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm and see if your organization is accredited or not, or needs to be

·         send us a contact (phone number of the person in charge of EVS projects, e-mail and other relevant contact if you may consider useful for future communication)

·         be from: European Union state members, Iceland, Turkey, Liechtenstein, Norway, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Former Yugoslav, Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Montenegro, Serbia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Authority of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Syria, Tunisia and other countries of the world 

·         send us the Part III form (Partnership agreement) which is attached with all fields completed on the fax, no. 0040 357 408524 or as a scanned copy at evsexpress@gmail.com and after that in 2 (two) originals on our address listed below only if everything is fulfilled correctly

Volunteer

• have to find yourself a sending organisation if you don’t have one already (for this you can search on the electronic database at:  http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm or you can browse our other EVS project web pages:

http://www.evsromania.ro/organizations

http://www.clusters.evsromania.ro/organizations

        for some contacts in your area, maybe it helps you)

• have at least 18 to 30 years old
• be available from 4 up to 12 months

·         be able to speak English at least at a basic level of understanding

·         be flexible enough to work 4-5 hours/day, 5 days/week but oriented towards achieving objectives

·         send a CV and a motivational letter to evsexpress@gmail.com emphasizing their interest in the project and background

·         send us your contact (phone number, e-mail, other relevant contact like Yahoo messenger ID, Skype ID, etc) as well as a contact of your sending organisation if you have it or as soon as you will have it

·         pleased to develop activities in small communities from the historical areas such as Maramures, Transilvania, Moldova (Tara Oasului, etc)

·         able to face challenge and ready for unpleased moments as well, as it’s not a vacation, but an opportunity given to improve your-self

We are:

§         the fruitful outcome of years of teamwork and development in the NGO sector regardless of beautiful or sad moments, crossroads or clear roads, open hands, emotions or discovering, hopes or fears.

§         a team which have the will of changing the world near them into a better one, who share the same value systems and common interests, and are eager to grow because of the ideas promoted every day

§         putting soul in everything we do:                            

http://www.millenniumcenter.org

http://www.clusters.evsromania.ro       

§         still working on:

                                 http://www.volunteers.ro                              

Who offers:

• young people the suitable environment and necessary resources for knowing and respecting all the legal rights and obligations of themselves
• support youth initiatives and ideas through upholding and supporting them at all levels
• promoting ideas of ecological principles, environment protection, promotes blood donations through local campaigns as an important gesture of every individual
• members the opportunity to participate in various thematically projects, trainings and seminars organized in the framework of “YiA” Program
• young people the possibility to  become volunteers in EVS projects as well as implementing EVS projects in Romania such as “Youth for Youth II” and “Cultural Clusters – To be discovered”

Contact us:

Asociatia Millennium Center

Str. Unirii nr. 5, et. 2, ap. 4

Postal code: 310123

Arad county, Romania

center.org@gmail.com   

Discover us:

http://www.millenniumcenter.org