ESC: A4ACTION ESC VOLUNTEERING PROGRAM - SHORT TERM

A4ACTION – the Association for Initiatives and Continuous Development is an organisation funded in October 2012. Its activity is deployed on the following levels:
- Local level – in the rural environment, through A4ACTION Youth Centre from Ghermănești, Snagov village, Ilfov District
- Regional level through the involvement in the youth initiative “Together for Ilfov”. This initiative has the purpose to develop Ilfov District based on non-formal educational programs organized in partnership with NGOs active in the field from Ilfov District.
- National level through the Youth Problem Council membership; council organized by the Youth and Sport Ministry in Romania and VOLUM membership;
- International level through different partnerships developed with European Union countries and not only

A4ACTION mission is to promote non-formal education and volunteering. We develop educational programs, animation activities, civil involvement, environment and social protection programs as well as cultural development programs. Most of A4ACTION programs are deployed within A4ACTION Youth Centre. From May 2015, the moment we registered, until the present day, within our Youth Centre we developed numerous non-formal educational activities such as: homework with children, storytelling, shadow theatre, cartoons, up-cycling, movies, water fights, intercultural evenings (we organized already the Spanish, Belgium, Franch and the Latvian international evening). Based on the international volunteers initiatives, we initiated new activities: English classes, Spanish class “El encuentro Latino'', French lesson, and the activity “Just Dance”. We want to add these initiatives in the daily schedule of the Youth Center and for this reason we support the international volunteers to pass the necessary skills to our local volunteers. This was a good opportunity for international volunteers to learn how to transmit and for our local volunteers to adopt new skills and to continue the activities, making our community benefit from them even after the project is closed. At this moment, the international and local volunteers are involved in activities at the Youth Center, but also in Primary School Mihai Eminescu, Ghermanesti and Mihai Kogalniceanu high school.