May 2017

1. European youth week

In first week of may it was the European youth week. we prepared workshops in Liceul Tehnologic “Bratianu”, those workshops were about empowering young people and involve them in different aspects of life. we make them focus on the strength points that they have and showed them in an activity how those characteristics can be a life-jacket when the conditions are not good,we also remind them that even though every individual have different skill that he can share with others, there is also a lot to learn.

2. Traditional Turkish music concert

 Onur Yavuz is was part of our family in Dragasani, he is a volunteer from Turkey, but he is also turkish music teacher. Onur perform in front of Dragasani people with his gorgeous voice and his Baglama (turkish folklore music instrument).

3. Starting with sports activities in Scoala Gimnaziala Nicolae Balcescu

To have a healthy body we have to exercise and do sports, but for a lot of children it is boring because it was practiced in a very strict way, that is why we tried to connect exercising and sports with fun, by creating telematch, to develop their teamwork, and competitivity. we did this for more than one week with several classes and the kids were very happy, we received a lot of friend requests on facebook.

4. Youth exchange in Caciulata – Art for environment

our organization was hosting a youth exchange project, and six organizations from different countries were part of this project, we had the opportunity to present our Dragasani family and our project, and to see the work that those organizations are working on.

5. Photo exhibition and music (Romania, Turkey and Italy) in Ramnicu Valcea county library

this event was the final event for the youth exchange that our organization was hosting, and we attended to this photo exhibition, and of course music had its own time in this event, Onur perform for all of us, and sang some traditional turkish songs, and the volunteers from the youth exchange also did a very nice performance.

6. Happy 98th anniversary (25 may 2017) La multi ani Liceului tehnologic Bratianu! In Dragasani

we were very honoured to be part of the 98th anniversary for our beloved school liceul tehnologic Bratianu, we presented our countries in front of the mayor if Dragasani and other important people, they were very friendly and we think they enjoyed, after that we were invited to a  lunch and party in the school restaurant, we ate romanian food, with a fine wine from Dragasani which famous with wine, and we finished with a traditional romanian dance.