Community Discovery Institutions
Time to meet the partner institutions to make introductions, receive additional training on internal rules of the schools, meet with the target group and perform need analysis. When these approaches occurred, it was an important goal to make the proper presentations, a description of the project as much complete as possible and to get an understanding how could the project develop itself in which one of the partners. To make this goal possible, two member involved in the project were all the time present to facilitate the interaction. Adrian Gavrila as the mentor of the volunteers and Ana Barros as the coordinator of the project. Both of them, a huge support in the volunteers process of relationship construction close to the institutions.
Mihai Viteazul — In the theoretical high school of Mihai Viteazul, the volunteers made the first contact with the principle of the school in his office to discuss the approach that they will have with the beneficiaries.
In this first meeting at this high school, David Carapinha and Maria Domenica were the ones that attended the meeting. The main objective of the meeting was to discuss with the director of the school, details about the Second ACT project and to understand how the volunteers could participate with this school.
During the meeting, the elements mentioned previously that were representing Asociatia Comunitati pentru Tineret, explained to the director what they could do with the beneficiaries, and, both of the parts, together, decided how they could cooperate and manage the relation between actors.
After the meeting, both parts agreed to start with the project the following week, in a classroom provided to do the activities in the school, with the interested students, one time a week.
Stefan Anghel — In school Stefan Anghel, all of the volunteers decided to do the first meeting session, Francesc, Maria, David, Ana and Domenica. The approach was different from the previous one, since the volunteers were allowed to enter in the classes of the students they were going to work with.
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This time, once more, all the members presented themselves and spoke about the association, the project and some personally details. In terms of educational system, the students are being instructed to develop skills, directly related with some particular jobs they are going to work with. That means it’s a system close to professional education, articulating between general classes, and some specific kind of classes, depending on the future profession.
There are two different classes, one, already familiarized with the project, since they were participants, last year, in the first part of the project. The other class will work for the first time with this kind of activities.
During Tuesdays, the volunteers will have the opportunity to work with these beneficiaries, in the beginning, one class per week, in other words, two times a month each class. Some of them are not from Bailesti, need to take public transportations, which means the schedule need to be more strict.
Scoala Gimnaziala nr.3 — When the volunteers visit this school, were invited to present the association and the project to each one of the classes that were occurring at that time. The president of the school was very gentle and supportive and the first contact happened with all of the students.
With this kind of presentation, all of the possible beneficiaries were aware of the presence of the project, and, together with their teachers, they could decide if they want to involve in the project.
Centrul Sperantei — Centrul Sperantei is a center day, where, children with few resources and opportunities could spend a part of the day before they go to their homes. The group of students in this school covers more than one class, which makes it a bigger group, where the volunteers will have to adapt to the group size.
Volunteers went there, all together, once more, with the members that are used to help them, this time also another facilitator was present, Livia, helping to establish a better communication, since she knew members of the center. In the beginning the project was explained, and the center described by the president.
In this center, the volunteers were welcomed with open arms, being allowed to appear when they wanted to participate with the children in the activities planned. There was established, at least, activities once a week, being the volunteers allowed to appear, as mentioned before, as many times as they want.
