My name is Bence and I am a voluntary project manager and youth worker of the Hungarian Polgár Foundation for Opportunities. I also consider myself as a youth leader as I am leading an informal group promoting physical activity and healthy living for young people in Budapest. Concerning my educational background I obtained MA degree in International Relations in 2014 …
Author: Raphael Harfaux
Meet the Brazilian participants
(News from Maysa Correa, Fundação Gol de Letra) Hey, everybody! It’s time to know more about the brazilian young group from Fundação Gol de Letra in São Paulo. 😀 The profiles below were written by them, during english classes last month. Hope you enjoy it! My name is Alex. I am 17 years old, I’m single and I am …
British participants hit the media
This morning, British participants hit the media to promote Olympic Legacy and the book donation. The article has been published in The Press, York’s local newspaper.
Last meeting; Fundraising event; and book donation – all news about the british participants
Our Team GB kept being busy this week. They had their last preparatory meeting before their departure and the start of the project in just 10 days. They also organised a Sports Day in order to raise money for the project. This morning, we went to Waterstone (library) and Millets (camping store) in York to …
Meet the Hungarian participants
A few weeks, our partner Karpati Adrienn, coordinator at Polgár Alapítvány published the portrait of each participants from Hungary: My name is Richard Seres from Hungary. I live in Bátonyterenye with my parents and my sister, Kiara. I am 19 years old and I’m part of the citizens foundation since 3 years. I am part of the after-school program …
News from Youthworker Bence (from Hungary) in Brazil
Bence Garamvölgyi, Youthworker from Hungary is now in Brazil for a mobility project at Fundação Gol de Letra. Here is what he published on Facebook:
British group all around the media to promote Olympic Legacy
This week, our british group was all around the media to promote Olympic Legacy and the Youth Exchange in Rio. BBC York Radio: York Press
Picture of the Brazilian group
Our partner Maysa Correa, from Fundação Gol de Letra published the following message on Facebook:
“I’m so excited with this project” – First testimony from Victor
Hi, my name is Victor. I’m from Brazil and I’m 22 years old. I’m living in York (UK) since two weeks ago. I’m one of the EVSs of Olympic Legacy project. In the first weekend here I had my first different experience. Douglas (the other brazilian EVS) and I went to a camping with tent, sleeping bag, marshmallows and fire …
“I am 2 weeks in the UK and everything is very new” – First Testimony from Douglas
Hi, I’m Douglas, 27 years old, brazilian from São Paulo, it’s really pleasure talking about this volunteering experience. Before I come to England I was study Bussiness in Rio de Janeiro and Working as a trainee, I every be envolved with social projects and I like to much this, in recent years I was very much related with socio-cultural …