Dear Portuguese friends,

Time has passed so quickly and we are at the end of our project. Unfortunately.

Since one year is a long time we decided that our last meeting will be special. We invited our Families, parents and presented them our one year experience, knowledge, new friends, our work.

Everybody were very happy and proud;)

Thank you very much for everything dear friends, take care and we hope SEE U again!

BIG hugs and kisses from Greek group!!!

Hey guys! ;)

Remember this lovely days?? Just a few pictures to refresh our memories.. :)

Dear friends,

How are you?

Our “March sessions” were very interesting and exciting!

We would like to share with you some experience:

On 22nd of March, in the European action week against racism, we came together and organised an “Street action against racism and value diversity”in the streets of the small town of Kiato. Together with other participants from different countries – Italy, Latvia, France we wanted to bring the anti-racism facts into the society and remind people that we are living in united world, so there’s no place for any kind of discrimination.

The street action consisted from “Free hugs”, to complete Questionnaires that we prepared in our meetings before, from Graffiti and from other actions as to actively involve people and ask for their opinions and thoughts on a discrimination subject and get to know how they are familiar with human Rights issues.

See some following photos:

Dear all,

News from our “amazing meeting” in Greece;)

According to your words and enthusiasm presented during and after the meeting we would like to Thank you for your participation and positive energy that made this meeting so special.

For those that couldn’t attend this meeting we have some photos from our nice activities as: working sessions- energizers, Eurovision on Human Rights (Quiz, Poem, Drama, Photo, Music), visit of hosting organisation “Filoxenia”, visit of Environmental footpath, visit of Environmental Museum in Stymfalia and more;)

Let’s meet on facebook and share our experience, feelings from the last period. It was very interesting and busy time;)

Kisses and hugs.

Dear Portuguese friends!

We have some news for you as well.

Our “Human Rights Weekend” was very nice and good preparation for the meeting in Greece with you.

We spent nice time together with our guests from Athens (volunteers from Amnesty International and Institution working with refugees) and with our local friends.

We can discuss more about that together on Facebook as you proposed;)

Some photos for you.

Hugs,

Greek group.

Hey friends from Greece!!

Finally we had our “Human Rights Weekend” in Amarante! It was a bit delayed but we did it this weekend and it was a lot of fun in Casa da Juventude! :))

Here you have some photos of the activities! For further information you should directely ask us on facebook..now that we know each other much better! ;)

Dear friends!

Very nice to see you in action;) You became artists;)

It is really cold period last days in Greece, snowing…but it’s inspiring. We will try to keep some snow for you too;)

We had a very good time last month. We have been very creative;)

We expressed our views on Human rights through some art techniques as painting, drawing, collage, graffiti, photography. We created some postcards, poster, promotion panel, photo documentation.

As an inspiration we used also some articles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

You will have the chance to see our result very soon and share with us your opinion and find out which articles we have tried to illustrate;)

See some photos.

Hugs from the Greek group.

See U soon!

Hey everyone!! We heard that you are freezing in Greece, is that true?? ;)

Well, here the weather is not as cold as in there but we have to use a lot of warm clothes too ;)

How are the activities? Are you having a good time? We want some news from you!

We were finishing our drawings about 10 articles of the UDHR in the last meeting..this drawings will be transformed in big posters to be placed outdoors in the city and create the “Path to Human Rights”. We will explain to you personally when we are in Greece, there´s just a couple of weeks left! :)

Here you have some pictures!

Kisses & Hugs,

Amarante team

Hi people from Corinthia!! ;)

That is so nice to see your pictures and the activities you were doing..the exhibition organised by the Amnesty International reminded us the one we had here in August during the Youth Exchange, remember? ;)

So, as you are so curious about us..we will let you know what we did to help our community here.

The first action was to support a local institution that hosts around 30 children that were taken from their families because of social problems. These children faced many difficulties in their short life and need a lot of care and attention so we went there to make them a bit more happy during one morning. It was so much fun!!! We played a lot with them and their energy and smiles made us feel great and useful…:) Unfortunately, we couldn´t take take good pictures because we were not allowed..

The second activity was yesterday! We had a great task to do: to clean and paint the stables of sheep that belong to Cercimarante (the institution for disabled people). It was a hard and “wet” work!! We didn´t know before that the place was sooooo dirty, we were just prepared to paint walls but when we got there we realised that it wouldn´t be easy..just spiders webs, dust and even some “cute” mice!!lol As we are in the Christmas holidays, many of us were out of Amarante and didn´t participate but even if we were just a few people we worked a lot and could manage to clean everything outside..though we couldn´t paint the walls as it was everything wet..including us!! :)))

It was also a funny afternoon doing a useful thing and helping an institution that really deserves! 

Dear friends!

We have news from our Voluntary actions of December.

We have been participating and helping in the “Voluntary action week” organized by the Youth Centre of Corinthia in Corinth.

We have been divided in two groups and helping to organize this action and a “Donation Bazaar”.

We had 2 sessions on Voluntarism in general, on International voluntarism and European Voluntary Service (EVS) and how we can participate on it.

We helped to create an Database of National volunteering opportunities and participated in the Info day of the Youth Centre of Corinthia.

We have met European volunteers and Ex-volunteers participating in EVS in the Youth Centre. They shared with us their experience, opinions and how does voluntarism in their countries works.

The key action of this week was the “Donation Bazaar”, where we have been collecting all kind of material (e.g.: clothes, shoes, bags, toys, food…) from people they don’t need it anymore and spend it. All this collected material will be given to people with difficulties.

After collecting, putting things in order, doing a list of all material, we created a “Thank You” poster.

By giving a hand, we could help people in need and this gave us a warm feeling of philanthropy.

What about you? Please share with us your activities.

Hugs from the Greek group.