Reuse, Reduce, Recycle Herăstrău rafting

Last weekend we managed to sail on the Herăstrău lake on a raft made of plastic bottles!

...and we even appeared in the media:

http://www.click.ro/news/bucuresti/ups-tipii-astia-pluta-herastrau_0_1226277463.html

http://www.primatv.ro/stiri-focus/pluta-eco.html

SUSTAINABLE DANUBE PROJECT!

Romania has a great and underestimated tresure, the Danube Delta.

It is important for everybody to take care of such a wonderful and fundamental ecosystem, with our daily behaviour.

Unfortunately, this is not a theme that is often discussed within the media mainstream and in the public debate.

That is why our team is working on a challanging project, that is called

<< The Danube Assault >>

The idea is to build a boat made by recycled bottles that will sail on the delta of Danube from Tulcea

to Sfantu Gheorghe, pulling a big kite bringing the main slogan of sustainability:

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

Our goals are to promote sustainable development and sustainable lifestyle, to raise the environmental pollution question on the public debate,

to promote sustainable turism and to contribute to show the world that a fantastic ecosystem is in danger for human behaviours

Collecting point

We have been collecting bottles all week for our Danube Delta project. People in the street were not very willing to leave their bottles at the stand but we are planning new ways to reach our target of around 500 bottles. Right now we have all of these you can see in the picture!
Please contact us if you have any to give us! Multumim.

Sector 6 orphanage

We have collaborated with other EVS volunteers who are working with the children in sector 6. We prepared many games for them and played on a very sunny day.

We have a very interesting project in mind related to sustainable development but in order to make it possible we need your help!

Avem un proiect foarte interesant în minte legat de dezvoltarea durabilă, dar pentru a face posibilă avem nevoie de ajutorul tău!

All we need is as many 2L and 5L empty plastic water bottles with its CAP (very important!).

Tot ce ne trebuie este sticle de plastic de 2L și 5L de apă goale cu DOPUL (asta e foarte important!).

Our collecting point will be open from 6 PM to 8 PM (or in the morning from 9AM to 10 AM).

Punctul nostru de colectare va fi deschis de la 18 la 20 (sau în dimineaţa de la 9am la 10 AM).

Mulțumim!
EVS Team

We need your help!

As you may know we are working on an amazing project in which we need PET 2L and 5L empty bottles with caps. Also we are looking for people to lend us for 1 week approximately all other material we need instead of buying it all with our restricted budget :D (If anyone of you works or has contact with a retail and hardware store that can sponsor us or make a special prize for construction material we need please let us know and we will contact you!)

So this is what we need:

-8 safety vest

-8 raincoats

-walkie talkies

-tents (for 8 people in total)

-1 camping lamp

-8 sleeping bags + matresses

-2 electric torches

-1 small saw for wood

-1 small grill

-2 camping gas

-medium sized waterproof box

Multumim!!

Sustainable Danube Project!

Buna Seara!

We have really good news!
Our team is starting to work for very interesting, maybe little bit crazy idea/project.
It’s called „Sustainable Danube Project”!

Idea is to build a boat made by recycled bottles that will sail on the delta of Danube from Tulcea
to Sulina, pulling a big kite bringing the main slogan of sustainability: Reduce, Reuse,
Recycle.
The boat will be assisted by an assistance team that will provide support and supplies.

Now we are waiting for permission to make this stand, to collect plastic bottles for our project - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=218306461523445And now we have lot of things to plan and work on!

Keep in touch!

Evs Team!

Trip to Curtea de Argeș Barajul Vidraru

We have visited the monastery of Curtea de Argeș and the Vidraru dam with the children from School nr 5.

Facebook event: WHAT DOES VOLUNTARISM MEAN TO YOU?

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100399786717139

This is an activity to promote voluntarism within the European Week of Voluntarism and the European Volunteer Service (EVS) project "Globe in the Mirror II" financed by the EU Youth in Action program and held at Art Fusion Association in Bucharest, Romania.

We would like to make an exhibition in Bucharest with the sentences that best describe: WHAT DOES VOLUNTARISM MEAN TO YOU?
We encourage all former and present volunteers to participate for the world to know more about voluntarism. This is an opportunity to share your own thoughts about it and promote voluntarism worldwide.

Post your answer/sentence/quotes/short stories here and they will have the chance to be exposed in Bucharest during the several events of the European Week of Voluntarism.

Thank you for volunteering!

Recycling Container Map of București

After the Recycling Container Hunt held on Earth day we have finally posted the containers found by the participants on a map. We would now like to locate the rest of them with the help of all of you!
Click on the map to find out where the containers are and encourage people to use it. Thank you for your collaboration and keep recycling!

Finally the Earth day

After having had difficulty to get permission to make our stand

we are ready!!!
















The first people come
we start talk about Sustainable development

of exchanges on sustainable development and appreciation
to talk about sustainable development here in Bucharest

and a very good surprise some people stops in the stand to juggle with us
=)














And I wanted to thank all those who are staying in the stand for help us

THANKS = D

FLASHMOB: Waiting for Recycling !

A.R.T. Fusion invites you to celebrate the Earth Day

FLASH MOBS and actions to know how to take care of our planet !

A flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse

PLACE: Recylcing conteiners in front of the Cercul Militar National (Bulevardul Regina Elisabeta)

DATE: Thursday, 21 April, 18:00

DURATION: Until somebody reacts

"Waiting for Recicling"

TIME: 18:00

What do you have to do? At 18:00 o’ clock everybody must be around the area that surrounds the containers in front of the Cercul Militar National, act normal, as if you’re waiting for something, resting, reading a magazine, eating or talking. Also at 18:00 there will be a person that will start throwing garbage to the floor around the containers, the rest of the people just have to act normal. We just have to wait for the reaction of somebody, possibilities:

a) if somebody reacts and help and put the garbage in the containers, everybody just have to stop acting normal and start clapping and help also to put all the garbage in the right containers.

b) In case that somebody reacts in not such a good way, don’t react unless the guy who’s throwing the garbage to the floor whistles. If you listen to the whistle you all come and put the garbage in the right containers, if there is no whistle, just continue to act casual until somebody try to show the guy where it is suppose to put the garbage and then clapping and separate !

So the point of the flashmob is to people notice that the containers exists, and that we can do more. Also, when it is time to clap the person that helps to put the garbage on the containers, really give that person a strong applause, hug her if you want to ! We want people to not forget about it !

This initiative is part of the Globe in the Mirror II project, initiated by ART Fusion Association and financially supported by the European Comission through Youth in Action Program

Facebook

Stand For Earth Day

The Stand will be located at the University square

It will aim to educate people on the street on Sustainable Development

There will be some activity to attract people to the streets=

-juggling
-distribution of ice water syrup
-Co2 footprint test

EARTH DAY 'Recycling container hunt'

What to do with all these plastic bottles? What about the pieces of used paper? And the glass bottles?
The answer is: Recycle them!

Globe in the Mirror is a team of volunteers within the European Voluntary Service Youth in Action program. One of our many activities is Earth day for which we have planned a 'recycling container hunt' that is going to be organized in order to form a final map of București with all recycling containers marked on it (this will be available on-line). But the city is big, so we need the most people possible to help us fill in this map. Join the 'recycling container hunt' on the 21st April at 4PM at Piața Revoluției and help us find where all the recycling containers are in the city.
You will get a special surprise at the end!

Multimedia workshop

Andreea has been showing us how to use some tools to design our own posters for our upcoming events. Here are some of our first posters.

Costume day at school nr. 5

Our Monday session at School nr. 5 started with a "sound-recognition energizer". Then we showed the children how to make costumes out of recycled material: cardboard from fruit and egg boxes or plastic bottles.
They were very creative, came up with great ideas and designed warrior, princess and robot costumes with little help from us.
At the end there was a catwalk to show the creations to everyone.

2nd workshop in special school nr.5!

Special School nr 5 !

In the last weeks we've been busy with the workshops at the Special School nr 5 !

The first session at the school was all about getting to know each other, introducing ourselfs and to learn more about those kids.

Then at the second activity day with those wonderful kids it was all about music and sounds ! Since we are promoting a sustainable lifestyle, we worked only with recycled material or material that could be recycled after ! Instead of playing with the usual instruments we teached them how to built instruments from the recycled material.

With a lot of creativity and a few laughs everybody end up with an instrument, and such good instruments ! From bell drums to rainsticks from used papper toilet roles, everything was possible !

At the end, after a concert from the small ensembles created, we made an orchestra ! And what an orchestra ! Vigour, energy and a lot of rhythm, the percussion orchestra end up playing with a violin and different maestros ! It was impressive.

Soon there will be a movie about it, wait for it !

Globe in the Mirror II

( The first Team Building - 19, Feb )

Salut !

One month has passed since we all arrived to Bucureşti !

Lately we've been quite busy with workshops and formation, beside that we have been discovering the town, and what a town !

We start working with the kids from the special school nr 5, and we're working on a movie to present our activities with the kids, so, soon there will be news on this topic !

For now let's introduce the group.

( visit to Sinaia after the week of formation at Predeal )

From the right to the left:

On the right, Andris with the red jacket, our Latvian guy; Next to him, with the sunglasses The Godfather, also know as Enrico, he's Italian ! The girl in the center is Ane, the Danish Ginger; Also in the center is Gil, one of the two iberians, latin ! The The next girl is the energic spanish girl, Adriana; Last but not least, Alex, the french touch of the group hum !

The easter egg is found on alex hand, Anna Vlad Tepes ! Our mascot !

And that's all for now ! Soon there will be very fresh and great news about the journey of Globe in the Mirror II, Bucureşti !