Welcome Turkey!

we welcome the newest volunteers in town! Serhat and Omer, both from Turkey, will spend one month in Altamura working at different things! Right now they are helping a group of young people to run an integration camp with disable people. Thank you guys for your contribution, thank you to all the volunteers who made Hands-on project possible and let's see what's next!

ciao from Altamura

ciao friends,
finally we took visa and we could arrive to Altamura.. indeed, we had some doubts about Altamura. but now we havent any doubt. cos Altamura is small but so sweet city. and we must say Link and stuff of Link wonderfull. they are so friendly. and the project really very good. we are working with disable people. and i am sure that this project very beneficial for their life..
i will write again next time..
for now ciao ciao..

ciao

Sono Jana !
Che volete scrivete di me:-)))

Football mon amour!

Ciao! Bernardin went back home last week and Ras will leave in a few days. in the meanwhile Minou (France) and Ivanna (Hungary) arrived, so the HAND-ON group is becoming bigger and bigger! Now, I would like to post a few pictures from the football project. Stay tuned!

Un français en Italie (Altamura)

Yo, je m appelle Houmphavong Phommadeth alias minou, j'ai 26 ans, je suis nèe le 11 juin 1982 à roubaix. Je vis en France dans la ville de lille.

J'ai éffectué un projet sportif dans le domaine du foot comme aide entraineur a la pouglia sport italie durant un mois. (du 14 mai au 14 juin 2008), des jeunes de 8 à 14 ans

Mes référents sont: Belkacem, un français qui travaille à Altamura (Italie) depuis 2004, Nicola denora, et Lèonaro denora tous deux professeurs d'éducation physique.

Rèsponsables de l'association Link sont: Mino, Lucia et (Sante, qui est salariè).

Altamura est une une belle ville et assez paisible et assez calme avec de belle cathédrale située au centre ville, mais attention a la conduite des italien car ils ne savent pas conduire lol. Je trouve la pizza bonne mais dommage qui manque de variétés.

ras debut tour

welcome all travellers at home or abroad god bless you all and the families you represent
count it all joy when you face hardship the same way you endure the the sun endure the rain
be the best you can where ever you are as i encourage you to do so
i want you to know that you can achieve all you put your mind to what is imposible with,
man, is possible with god.
be detimined to reach your goal it isnt that far away
with the infaluble company of gods holy spirit i crossed borders which were locked away from me by the finances of life well now in italy i work,rest,and speak with my lord christ jesus though prayers do the same if you hear the lord calling

life and death is in the power of the tongue hebrews 9

ras jones seventh day adventist church with hands on in italy www.kenningtonlife.com

presentation

bonjour a tous je m'appelle bernardin et je viens de paris.je suis heureux de participe a ce progé

Waiting for the sun!!

Ciao! Things are going well, our new volunteer is fine and we are already waiting for some new people from UK and France. In the meanwhile we upload some more pictures. Enjoy!









Lucia preparing Italian dinner








Enjoying the meal!

Ciao, mi chiamo Tomasz!

HALLO! My name is Tomek.I'm twenty-one years old.I from Poland in Bystrzyca Klodzka.I left for Euwopan Volontary Work[EVS] in Altamura [ITALY].My project is very interesting.My first week in Italy is very super.I'm going to School and ANFFAS. ANNFAS is [a organization for people with mental disability.].My mentor are Mino and Lucia.This is a very nice people.I work with the childern and with diaìsabled.The work with childern is very beatfiul and we do many diffrent things with art.For example..we are building a town with houses made by paper.Another task of mine is to take picturesfor docummentation of our workshops.I'm in Itali one mounth[1.April-30.April2008].I'm studing English with Sante.Sometimes we go out for pizza or and ice-cream.Last Sunday I went go to Bari by train ,but I didn't remember tu puch my ticket.. [TICKET GRATIS!!!!!]. ITALIAN IS VERY THE BEST!!!!!!!!!

Hands-on / First month

Yesterday Steeve and Johannes left Alltamura and their project. They have worked as volunteer and they have had a great opportunity to better know the Italian culture. Link is already missing you guys! (In the picture Steeve with the kids at Puglia Sport football club). Now we are waiting for the next volunteers!

just one month

One month is quite a short time. Well, it's over for me now, I am back in Vienna again (I don't dare to say "at home" since my home was Via Vittoria Veneto for some time now and I got used to it). 
I am just looking through the 1300(?) photos I made. I hope I can select some of the best in the next few days and put them online.

Meanwhile I wish could luck to Omer with his Visa and also to the Polish girl oder guy (I don't know) - I hope you will have a great time in Altamura as well!

Kind regards to all of you, my flat mates, the people at Link (specially singing-Sante) and everybody else,
johannes

new slideshow photos

In the right bar of this weblog you can see a slideshow. We just changed it to include pictures of our actual activities in the Hands-On project. These include working with people with disabilities at ANFASS but also helping with a history project about Altamura in a primary school.
Enjoy!
Regards,
johannes

hello from Turkey

hello friends
i am omer from Turkey.
i am in here because i will have been italy-altamura as soon. but if i can take visa :))
i will be volunteer for Link- european growin People..
i will write again later..

Nice group, isn't it?

This is a nice group, isn't it? From the left: Mino, Lucia, Steeve, Sante... what a pity the photographer is missing, but you can see Johannes in some other post. I enjoyed very much this trip to Matera, even if was the nth time for me :) --- Also was very nice to meet again Andrej!

a la salle polyvalante

je m'appel steeve aernouts je viens de france de la ville d'hem 59(nord)je suis venu en italien (altamura)pour une formation action jeunesse juventus d'un mois envoyer par l'adice de france par berenice.Je travaille comme entraineur de football avec un groupe de jeunes de 5 ans a 11 ans tous les lundis et mercredis de 18h00 a 19h30 a la salle polyvalante (lyceo scientifico)) avec belkacem et un professeur d'education physique qui se nome nicola denora.
nous travaillons essenciellement sur la mobiliter, sur la pratique sportive,sur le physique,sur la technique,et l'education des jeunes.

Matera

Thanks to the great people from Link we made a trip to the city of Matera today, around 15km away from Altamura.
It really liked it, specially of course the old part of the city (Sossi? Sassi? Sussi? I cannot remember their name) and the canyon. Quite impressive! I am just browsing through the many photos I made and will upload one or another later.
Good evening,
j.
here you get two of the images:

mezzomese

It's been nearly two weeks since I arrived. That makes it mezzo mese for me. So what did I do in these past two weeks?
I arrived well. That volunteer's flat is nice and very near the Link office, unfortunately I bit cool (the heating does not work at the moment). I got to know my flatmates (Steeve, also working in the Hands On project, see his own post and two other girls who are staying for a 6 month long term EVS). Moreover I got two know the two institutions where I am working: ANFASS, an institution for mentally disabled people and a primary school where we make some workshops about the history of Altamura (the city where we're staying).

And here another picture of myself. Because I don't have pictures of Altamura or something else interesting with me at the moment. It's not a specially good one either but nevermind.
Another one of the house where the volunteer´s flat is.

Regards,
j.

Je m'appel Steeve

Je m'appel Steeve Aernouts, je suis nee le 29/08/87 a ROUBAIX (nord),jai 20 ans.j'habite HEM departement du nord (59) France. Je suis envoyèe par l'association L'ADICE par Berenice en Italie a Altamura pour une formation d'un mois dans le domaine du sport.(football). Je travaille avec deux professeur d'education physique (Nicola,et Leonardo Denora) et un francais qui s'appel Belkacem. Le club s'appel Puglia Sport. Mes loisirs en France son la boxe, la lutte, le football. Autres loisir sont dessins, musiques(hip hop rnb soul funck rnb),cinema (action,aventure,horreur.fantastique). Mes etudes sont.
-Ecole primaire (Michelet) a Lannoy (59) 5ans.
-College Elsa Triolet a Hem (59) 5 ans.
-Lycee Colbert a Tourcoing (59) BEP electromenager 2 ans.
Je vie seul avec mes soeurs,mon frère et ma mère. Donc deux grandes soeurs,un grand frere et une petit soeur.
Je suis suis a Altamura (Italie) dans un appartement pretèe par LINK que je partage avec deux Autrichiens qui s'appel Joanes et Birgit et une Littonienne qui s'appel Cyntia.
Desolè mino je c'est plus koi dire et merci a mino,lucia,santè,belkacem....ect ciao et biento

My name is Johannes

My name is Johannes, coming from Vienna, Austria. I am currently doing a short term EVS for one month at Link in Altamura. My activities include working with disabled people (creative and documentary work) as well as helping out in a school. I am curious about the experiences to come in the next few weeks.

What's "Hands-on"

The main theme of the project is the social inclusion of young people with less opportunities.
The project intends to promote the active participation, the education to the respect of differences, the affirmation of equal opportunities for everybody, favoring the struggle to the discriminations through the use of arts and sport. It intends to set paths of inclusion through the implementation, at local level, of artistic laboratories and sport activities aimed for young people with less opportunities.
The artistic laboratories can be understood as places of creativity and knowledge, experimentation, discovery and auto-learning, points of meeting, training and collaboration, spaces where the creativity of everyone can express itself. The sport activities are seen as vectors for the social inclusion, for the social life share and the interaction between cultures and individuals, activities which facilitate the socializing, helping to overcome the differences and to fight the discriminations. The project was born from the experience matured by the proposing subject in the project “All inclusive” implementation organized within the Youth Program. We believe that, in strength of the experience matured, a path of inclusion is favorite by the mixed constitution of the group which the project involves and from the planning of artistic activities, sport and manuals.
Art and sport are, in "Hands on" project, tools through which stimulate the participation of young people favoring the processes of social inclusion.
The project foresees:
A) the implementation of artistic laboratories, already started at local level during the last year, in a experimental way, by “Link” together with the local associations working with young mental disabled people, ANFASS and VIVERE. The artistic laboratories activities are inspired to the methodology used in the visual communication laboratories conceived by Bruno Munari, in which he allows the participants to appropriate some expressive and creative languages through the direct experimentation of materials, tools and techniques. The “Munari method” can be reassumed in the old Chinese proverb: "If I hear I forget, if I see I remember, if I do I understand". "Doing", we know the tools and the rules of the figurative language, and it leaves space for the creativeness and for the possibility of anyone to express himself.
B) the sport activities implementation, aimed for mixed groups of young people (immigrated, at risk of deviance, disabled, local and international volunteers) set up in collaboration with the local youth sport associations, with which a consolidated cooperation exists. Such activities intends to increase the value of the physical and relationship abilities of everyone. Through a better awareness of their own limits, the young people will be able to learn how to respect the others and to develop abilities to make group through team games. The European volunteers will participate in all the phases of the planned activities giving their contribution in terms of proposals. The project foresees the implementation of food education and prevention of risk ways of behaving workshops (alcoholism, tobacco addiction, drugs), and medical aid.
“ Hands on" project intends to promote the difference as wealth, intercultural learning, interaction among young people with different backgrounds, to work and to live in group, and also to offer the opportunity to know the host Country culture to the European volunteers. The European volunteers together with the local volunteers and the team, will cooperate in the artistic workshops and in the sport activities realization, following all the phases of it from the planning, to the preparation, realization, documentation and evaluation. Thanks to the methodology used, the European volunteers can easily develop an active and proposing role and assume roles of responsibility proportioned to their attitudes. The presence of volunteers coming from different European Countries will give assistant value to the activities developed at local level and will enable to approach the community, the local volunteers and the participants to the European activities.

Hands-on

Benvenuti sul nuovo blog dei volontari europei di breve termine dell'associazione Link di Altamura! "Hands-on" è un progetto dell'associazione culturale Link di Altamura, finanziato dal programma "Gioventù in Azione" che si svolge da febbraio ad agosto 2008.