The ceremony for winners of eTwinning competition in Žilina

On 29 June 2011 our Slovak eTwinning team was invited to the ceremony for winners of the eTwinning competition in Slovakia. We were the winners of the special category of the projects with the idea of volunteering. We enjoyed the ceremony and had a great time. See the photos from the ceremony in Žilina :)

A GREAT NEWS!

OUR PROJECT VOLUNTEER VOICES HAS BEEN AWARDED IN THE SLOVAK COMPETITION FOR THE BEST ETWINNING PROJECT. IT HAS WON 1ST PRIZE! :)

THE WEB PAGE OF THE PROJECT "VOLUNTEER VOICES"

Our project has had a new web page and it shows the activities in our project.You can find it here: www.oalevice.edu.sk/volunteervoices

Evaluating of the project VOLUNTEER VOICES at the end of the school year

Students of Business Academy had a workshop and they were talking about the project VOLUNTEER VOICES and had several presentations about volunteering activities in the project which have been done in the cooperation with their Romanian partners. The partners will have a similar workshop and then they will evaluate the project together.

A TRIBUTE TO CHILDHOOD

1st of June is a special occasion to celebrate the innocence, the joy and the young spirit.A day in which we wish and set out to see the world around us in rainbow colors. Students from College in Romania preapred the volunteering activity for their schoolmates, presented plays, a folkloric moments and recited poems.
The students on the stage were rewarded by their colegues with applauses. All the kids got a sweet present:candy and juice. The activity was coordinated with Slovak partners who organized also the Child´s Day for the pupils from 2nd elementary school in their home town.

World environment day in Romania

The pupils from the College coordinated by teachers C. Gila and V.Acretei participated on the 2nd and the 4th of June 2011 at The Green Week event with the occasion of the World Environment Day on the 5th June organized by ONG Mare Nostrum.
Our pupils participated at a treasure hunt contest at the Environmental Science Museum of Constanta. The pupils raced to find the Eco treasure following the tracks. On the 4th June they participated at debates following the theme of environment and at action of recycling the used oil. All these actions are being made to make the citizens understand the importance of letting the nature grow. It was one of their volunteering activities in the project VOLUNTEER VOICES aimed at the environment.

OUR COOPERATION WITH STUDENTS IN KENYA :)

How strange and at the same moment great!!! eTwinning project, which is the European project has been spread to AFRICA!!! Our African partners from the school in Kenya visited our school and we showed them how to work with the help of ICT on the international projects. They were really interested and we have involved them to the project indirectly, because of the fact non European countries cannot take part in such projects. We showed them how the our project works, how we cooperate with our partners and they really liked it. What we did was we organized volunteering activity aimed at Africa and Kenya called BRICK FOR AFRICA. This volunteering acctivity helped us to support people without water and we were selling bracelets and sent raised money to Africa. Our Kenyan partners liked this activity and our teachers and us might cooperate with Kenyans in the future with the help of ICT on the mutual project. See our cooperation with teachers from Kenya :)
We are really proud of this activity.

OUR PROJECT IN THE ARTICLE OF THE NEWSPAPERS

Slovak and Romanian project VOLUNTEER VOICES has been presented to a wide public in the Slovak newspapers. People should know what volunteering activities have been done in the project and how has been helped to many peole, children, nature and much more...

LESSON OF LIFE - ROMANIAN VOLUNTEERING ACTIVITY TO HELP PRISONERS IN THE JAIL

On 25 May 2011 took place the Conference for “the Lesson of life” VOLUNTEERING programme.
A group of 40 pupils from the College with the school `s teachers and the psychologist participated at some activities at the “Poarta Alba” Jail. This project has been made to make the pupils understand the risks of their action.
The project followed young people awareness and accountability regarding the phenomenon of crimes, awareness of the effects of risky behavior, communication skills between students and persons deprived of liberty, emotional support for young people deprived of liberty.
The project ran a contest about literary and artistic creation, students with the best results were awarded. The coordinator of this project was Mrs. Mihaela Nicolaev.

KIZUNA A HOPE FOR JAPANESE CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM THE EFFECTS OF EARTHQUAKE AND TsUNAMI - SUPPORTED BY ROMANIAN STUDENTS

Romanian studens joined the international support of Japanese children who suffer from the effects of the earthquake and the tsunami. They have created and written the supporting postcards to Japan. How great!

BLUE BUTTON WEEK WITH UNICEF

The third week of May (16 22 May 2011) has belonged for 7 years to the activity organized by UNICEF called Week of the blue button. It is the activity when blue buttons are sold and collected money is used to help endangered children in different countries of the world. This year the help is aimed at the children in South Sudan to be able to go to schools. Fro the children who have experienced the war, hunger and poverty elementary education means the chance to fight poverty and have a better life. They will learn to read, write and count, but also the bases of the hygiene and healthcare.
With our support the children in south Sudan will be able to grow up to extraordinary people with better future and better life. Students of Business Academy in Levice involved in this activity are proud for this volunteering activity, they have raised 878€ for the children in south Sudan.

DAY FULL OF VOLUNTEERING

tudents of Business Academy in Levice have had the opportunity to visit the Open Day in Nitra which was dedicated to VOLUNTEERING. There have been a lot of stalls of different volunteering activities and volunteer organizations. Students involved in the project VOLUNTEER VOICES took part in some competitions and were successful. This day opened their eyes wide and now they understand much more what is volunteering about. :)

ECO WATCH SCHOOL GUARD

During the project ECO WATCH SCHOOL GUARD, the second edition, pupils from the College participated at an ecological action containing cleaning Modern beach and planting willows at the Traian Highschool for the bank consolidation.
Children from 8 B and 10A from National College, during the project Volunteer voices, made up and action on 20 may 2011 under the name of “Cleaner beach, cleaner water “. Together with mrs. Polixenia Popescu pupils collected garbage, thrown randomly on the Modern beach in Constanta. This action is created to save the bank zone and to protect areas with the special features. Our volunteers are willing to make the public understand the risks of making the nature cry and are fighting for changing the world. This action had been made during the volunteering week.

KIZUNA A HOPE FOR JAPANESE CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM THE EFFECTS OF EARTHQUAKE AND TZUNAMI

The Japanese word ‘Kizuna’ means solidarity or tie. Slovak and Romanian students have joined the campaign of UNESCO in their eTwinning volunteering project « VOLUNTEER VOICES ».

UNESCO has adopted the word for a new campaign. School children from around the world are being asked to write a message of hope on a postcard. The aim is for each of the thousands of school children who were affected by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit northeast Japan on 11 March, to receive a postcard as an act of solidarity.

On that fateful day over 7000 schools were destroyed or damaged by the Tsunami, mostly in the coastline area of Tohoku region. In one tragic case among many, more than 70 percent of pupils were swept away by the tsunami. The remaining 30 percent of children in that particular school are understandably traumatized as are thousands of other school children in the region. Many children lost everything - their parents, friends, houses and schools. Many more continue to live in shelters. Sending some words of hope or drawing a picture symbolizing friendship on a postcard, shows these children that they have not been forgotten.
The word Kizuna conveys a powerful message of unity. Our conviction is that reconstruction, both physically and psychologically, must start with education, with schools, students and teachers.”
The Sendai branch of the National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan collects the postcards and then it will distribute them to school children and teachers in the affected region of Japan.
Postcards with sincere wishes of our young people were sent to
Sendai UNESCO Association
1-2-2 Oomachi, Aoba-ku,
Sendai City, 980-0804 JAPAN
THESE ARE SOME OF OUR WISHES TO JAPANESE CHILDREN WRITTEN IN THE POSTCARDS :
-DO NOT GIVE UP ! BETTER FUTURE AWAITS FOR YOU !
-WE ARE WITH YOU !
-WE SUPPORT YOU !
-MY HEART IS WITH JAPANESE CHILDREN AND PEOPLE !
-I HOPE AND BELIEVE THE JAPANESE WILL OVERCOME THE PROBLEMS AND CRISES AND I WISH YOU GOOD LUCK !
-BE STRONG – WE LOVE YOU !
-WE PRAY FOR YOU ! GOD IS WITH YOU !

DAY OF EUROPE - ROMANIAN STYLE

In Europe, Europe Day is an annual celebration of peace and unity in Europe.For the EU, the day is also known as Schuman Day, commemorating the historical declaration by French foreign minister Robert Schuman.
9 May is celebrated in various forms in most member states of the European Union.Due to the political nature of the day, it sees attempts at teaching people about the European Union and speaking in support of European integration.
Romanian students from National College presented on their workshop about the Day of Europe different countries from the European Union.
They sang beautiful songs from France, Finland, England, Spain, Italy. Our students presented the magnificent monuments from different countries in Europe. Also ,they prepared posters with 6 countries foundators members of the E.U.

PROJECT "VOLUNTEER VOICES" HAS BEEN AWARDED BY QUALITY LABEL

Our project has been awarded by the quality label
:)

HOW TO HELP JAPANESE CHILDREN AFTER THE HUGE EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI

This is oone of the great activities done for children. Romanian students together with Slovak partners supported the suffering children in Japan who are in bad conditions after the earthquake and tsunami. What they did was this:

-raise of money ´for children via Red Cross

- made origami and sent them to oranisation which sent 2€ for each to Japan

-expressed their wishes and prayers to and for suffering Japanese people

- made pancakes and fdoughnuts and the money raised was sent to Japan
- expressed their ideas, prayers and wishes to suffering Japanese people and children
- they did origami and for each they earned 2€ which was sent to Japanese people

VIDEOCONFERENCE ABOUT VOLUNTEERING

On 12 May 2011 students of Business Academy in Levice Slovakia together with their partners had a videoconference. They aimed at volunteering. they prepared a great and rich programme:

PROGRAMME of the videoconference:

1. Romanian presentation : BE VOLUNTEER

2. Romanian presentation: VOLUNTEERING

3. Slovak presentation: VOLUNTEERING IN SLOVAKIA

4. Film made by Slovak students about women

5. Our support to people in Japan

6. Discussion

7. Conclusion

Students came to this conclusion -

volunteering is a great kind of an academy to learn about life and its hardships. Volunteer work doesn’t offer and wages to volunteer, and that’s why you can not push people into this. But i tis true, the more you volunteer and help other, the more life credits you will get. Volunteering is a great thing which makes us better people willing to help. Who knows, when we will need help and if somebody helps us it will be great! This is what volunteering is about!!!

SLOVAK VOLUNTEERING ACTIVITY - EUROPEAN DAY AND EUROPEAN YEAR OF VOLUNTEERING

Europe Day

On the 9th of May 1950, Robert Schuman presented his proposal on the creation of an organised Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union. Today, the 9th of May has become a European symbol (Europe Day) which, along with the flag, the anthem, the motto and the single currency (the euro), identifies the political entity of the European Union. Europe Day is the occasion for activities and festivities that bring Europe closer to its citizens and peoples of the Union closer to one another.

Slovak students have joined two events Europe Day and European Year of Volunteering and went to the stress of their town Levice. They did the survey among the cicizens of the town Levice about volunteering. Every respondent of the survey got the yellow rose – the symbol of Europe.