Youth of Szécsény 2024 II. - Youth center renovation

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Hungary Construction Languages Manual work Renovation Construction Languages +2 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 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. Most of our activities are based in Nógrád-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. Working closely with local stakeholders we aim to fill this gap by creating meaningful educational and self-development opportunities locally while involving international youngsters in these programs.

💼 What the programme involves

The program is about rebuilding and renovating an old house for the purpose of the soon-to-be-open Egyesek youth centre in the town. As volunteers, we invite you to support the renovation work of the house (wall dismantling and repairing, plaster boarding, tiling, painting, etc.) cleaning and designing the garden. We are going to be working in different working groups under the supervision of professionals and one home team also would take care of the needs of the volunteers.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The accommodation is a 2-story family house, where usually our long-term ESC volunteers live, located a 15-minute walk away from the centre of the town. The house is fully equipped: it has 6 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 kitchens, 1 office, 2 community places, 1 guest room, a washing machine, wifi, a garden and bicycles. There, where you will be living in shared rooms: each bedroom can host up to 2 or 3 volunteers. There is also the possibility of tenting in the garden. Tents are provided but we ask you to bring your sleeping bag.

🍲 Food

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.

📍 About the location

Szécsény is a small town in Nógrád county, located in Northern Hungary, near the Slovakian border. The recorded population of the town is around 5937 inhabitants. Szécsény 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 Salgótarján) within 30 minutes, and Budapest within 2 hours.