On the 29
february 2012, as it was arranged two weeks before, we went to Foggia to visit the Istituto Masi di Foggia (one of the technical highschools located in the
center of Foggia) to meet the students of school, to tell them who we are, to
explain youth in action programme and EVS: what EVS promotes, what the benefits of
EVS are, how to become an EVS volunteer, also our volunteering experiences.
In the very
early morning, (by the way it was cloudy and grey) at half past seven we left
home to train station. We got the eight o’clock train and after twenty minutes
we were in foggia. There was Antonio T. (one of our mentors friend and the
person who arranged the meeting) waiting for us. We were picked by him to the
highschool. In fact the meeting would be in the theatre building but before we
had visited the manager of highschool to introduce ourselves and to give a
short information about our project and what we would talk about.
When we finally arrived
at the theatre building it was about half past nine. As you can see in the
picture, hundreds of highschool students in a theatre building means a lot of
noise, sudden screams and you can never make ıt out where they come from, teenagers
who like Twillight series, Harry Potter; listen to Usher, Adele, Linkin park,
Evanescence, and hate mathematics and chemistry. In short it means trouble!!!
They were in the
cinema to watch a movie but our meeting was planned before the movie.
We were
introduced by one of the students. Anna started to talk about us. She
summarized youth in action programme, EVS, what an EVS project is, how people
go to abroad as volunteers, which costs are being reimbursed by European
commision, if volunteers are paid or not (food allowance, pocket money), what the
age limits are and the trainings a volunteer takes during his evs experience.
Right after Anna i started to talk about our project in particular of “A Solidarity Shelter” and Mondo Nuovo. I
explained “A Solidarity Shelter”. What kind of activites we have, what we do in
the day, where we stay and the other details about our project.
As an old youth
in action participant, Antonio T. told his youth exchange experiences and we
finished the meeting.
After meeting we
had breakfast all together and had a walk in the historical streets of Foggia.
During the walking we dropped an etnic shop and in that shop we talked about
EVS. (we are real promoters)
I want to thank
the students, the teachers, the manager of school and especially Antonio T. For
arranging the meeting and translation.
Nejdet - EVS Volunteer
"A Solidarity Shelter"
Il 29 Febbraio siamo stati
a Foggia per visitare l'istituto Masi e poi siamo andati con Antonio in un cinema per
incontrare gli studenti dell'istituto interessati a partecipare al programma
di SVE. All'incontro c'erano tanti ragazzi a cui abbiamo parlato delle
nostre esperienze, del nostro lavoro a Lucera, di Mondo Nuovo in modo da invogliarli ad entrare a far parte dell'atmosfera dello SVE.
Anna ha presentato il programma "Gioventù in Azione", ha parlato un po’ dei vantaggi e del
finanziamento dei questi progetti europei. Poi Nejdet ha raccontato del nostro
lavoro sul campo. Poi gli studenti hanno
avuto la possibilità di farci delle domande di persona.
Secondo me è stato
bello questo incontro con i ragazzi perché noi siamo qua non solo per supportare
il lavoro dello staff di Mondo Nuovo ma anche per invogliare altri giovani a partecipare ai programmi europei e a diventare cittadini europei.
Zoli
– volontario SVE
"A Solidarity Shelter"
On the 29 of February we had a
meeting with high school students in Foggia. It was our second meeting like this, the first
was in Manfredonia, but there was only
one class. We were sitting at the classroom and just talking. But in
Foggia the meeting was in the building of cinema and to tell the truth I did
not expect that there would be so many students! So for the first seconds I was
even frightened! But first we went to school for a meeting with the director of the Masi Institute.
The students gathered there to
discuss their trips to other Italian cities and to watch the movie. And we were
invited to tell them about our experience. It was difficult to talk because the
room was huge, so we had to use microphone and it was not so easy as it could
seem. We were talking about Youth in Action program, about EVS, about all the
process how to apply for the project and about the financial side of EVS. Also
we told the students about our project "A Solidarity Shelter", our work and the work with the APS Mondo
Nuovo. They were interested why did we decide to become volunteers and why did
we choose Italy. There were some students who were very interested, so we
described them everything more detailed and gave then the address of the
website where they can find all this information too.
Julia - EVS Volunteer
"A Solidarity Shelter"
