📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Egyesek Youth Association is a community of active youth and young professionals. We contribute to creating communities based on solidarity, where people are aware of their own freedom of choice, they do what they love and connect with each other peacefully. Our activities are based in NEgrEUd-county, a socially and economically disadvantaged part of Hungary, where young people have very few opportunities to meet their peers from other European countries, engage in multicultural and non-formal learning, or take part in creative activities during their free time.
💼 What the programme involves
This 2 weeks volunteering program, supported by the Visegrad Fund, is about renovating an old house for the purpose of the soon-to-be-open Egyesek youth centre in the town and mobilising and activating youth in the micro-region. As volunteers, we invite you to partly support the renovation work of the house (light work, e.g. plaster boarding, tiling, painting, etc., but no specific experience is required for this work) and partly to plan a diverse set of activities, including the facilitation of workshops and visits to local schools and other youth centres, with the aim to outreach and engage many youngsters around.
🏠 Accommodation on site
As a volunteer, you will sleep in shared rooms or dormitories in SzEcsEny and you will be in charge of cleaning. Cold food will be provided for breakfast and lunch, and there will be hot meals for dinner after work cooked by the home team or ordered from nearby restaurants. Vegetarian, gluten and lactose-free options will be available. Do not forget to bring some traditional/typical food, drinks, recipes, music, games or movies from your country for the intercultural evening.
📍 About the location
SzEcsEny is a small town in NEgrEUd county, located in Northern Hungary, near the Slovakian border. The recorded population of the town is around 5937 inhabitants. SzEcsEny has grocery stores, ATMs, a bank, local restaurants, pubs, a pharmacy, a bakery, second-hand shops, a post office, and a bus station. From the local bus station, volunteers can reach nearby bigger towns (Balassagyarmat and SalgEtarjEUn) within 30 minutes, and Budapest within 2 hours.In SzEcsEny we host 8 long-term ESC volunteers, who will support you during your program. Further on the weekend in-between the camp (8-9th Feb) will be free to travel to Budapest or other cities.
ℹ️ Additional information
This is not an ESC Volunteering Teams project, but financed by the Visegrad Fund. You will get a travel reimbursement, accommodation and food will be provided, as well as health insurance. There will be no pocket money, like in ESC volunteering. Travel reimbursement limits are based on the Eramsus distance calculator:20 EUR for travel up to 100 km180 EUR for travel between 100 and 499 km275 EUR for travel between 500 and 1999 km