Tell me about your commitment

After an early start in Glasgow we arrived at our hotel late afternoon and after a quick change we headed to the city centre where we managed a quick visit to the castle and surrounding area before meeting up with the rest of the groups for an excellent dinner at Restaurant Most. Next morning we […]

Isa Höhne „Erzählen Sie von Ihrem Engagement, Ihrer ehrenamtlichen Tätigkeit“ vom 6.Juni bis 9. Juni 2012 in Ljubljana Nach einer fast zwölfstündigen Bahnfahrt von Berlin nach Ljubljana waren wir, d.h. die beiden Projektleiter; Claudio Cassetti und Herbert Spindler, Rolf Wilhelmsen als PC-Spezialist und ich, die Vertreterin der Redaktion des Wortspiegel, vom ersten Eindruck der Stadt […]

Here we have prepared a short summary of our meeting in Sluspk, Oct. 2011. Enjoy the memories     Konferencja grundtvig-oct-2011-1 ii  

Dear  Marusa and Viktorija and the team from Slovenia Thank you so much for organising such an interesting meeting In Slovenia.  I have received extremely positive feedback from the volunteers from Glasgow who participated in the meeting.  The agenda was well balanceD with a great mix of workshops and discussion, presentations, informal networking and cultural […]

Volunteers of SUTW from Słupsk-Poland, for their ppt presentation in Ljubljana had chosen as a leading theme variety of ways they cooperate with and assist groups of children and school students.The ppt Presentation; “Seniors and Juniors; heritage of experience and knowledge” illustrate and document a presence of our volunteers in company of childrenand young people. Our volunteers work […]

THE GIFT RIGHT FROM THE HEART  One of the point in the Final Report form calls for a description of “an added value”  of the “Tell me about your commitment” Project, which in the company of six different organizations comes to the completion within short time now. However, before the final farewell words will be […]

During my career as a Chartered Civil Engineer, at my place of work I supervised graduates through their training and application for membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Separately, I was involved in voluntary Institution activities which included committee work, chairing the local Graduates and Students Section, advising graduates on their Written Assignments which […]

When Lynda from the University of Strathclyde first asked for volunteers for a research Project to provide adult mentors for senior pupils in a secondary school in a socially deprived area in Glasgow it felt like something I could do.  I was only working part time and the rest of the week I took part […]

Dear “Tell me about your commitment” Friends. During our last meeting in Słupsk, we all watched with some pleasure relatively short video presented by Mr Piekarski of The Academia Pomorska in Słupsk. The video, with en English translation, shows “winding roads” along which volontary activity developed. “The winding roads” here mentioned  began in the early […]

Das Interview wurde von Bärbel und Rolf-Peter König, ViLE e.V. Deutschland, durchgeführt. Im Rahmen unseres Projektes „tell me about your commitment“ haben wir Herrn Kerner, dem Leiter der ungarndeutschen Heimatstube in Langenau  und Vorstand der deutsch–ungarischen Landsmannschaft im Alb-Donau Kreis, interviewt.

“Cornellà sense Fronteres” (Cornella without Borders) is an NGOs working with and for immigrants in the city of Cornellà (Barcelona Neighbour city). The “power point” shows how and why volunteers work in this framework.    Power Point ilustrativo Cornellà Sense Fronteres castellano by Aziz, in the frame of his work with FDC

In the framework of the projects “European Memories” and “Tell me about your commitment”, Fundació Desenvolupament Comunitari (FDC) have organized, together with “Memoro” and “Entrepobles”, a serie of interviews of people living in Catalunya who have been strongly involved in social struggles in the last years or even decades. View video “FDC Memories of the […]