We recently launched a survey, open to all CGrow volunteers, to receive their feedback and hear about their engagement in Coloured Glasses. Volunteers at the core of this project The CGrow project aims to build and strengthen networks of volunteers in the 7 countries were the project is implemented. Volunteers are at...
During the last week, Chemnitz (Germany) got known for open expressed and lived racism in the streets of the city. When I first saw the pictures in the news it made me really sad, but I must confess it didn’t surprised me much. Over the last years I could see...
From 26th to 29th of July we had the chance to carry out Coloured Glasses workshops at a huge summer festival called Närcon Sommar. An event dedicated for the fans and admirers of cosplay, comics and gaming. The event took place in Linköping, Sweden and there were more than 10 000...
On August 19th, YFU France welcomed an European Volunteer Service from Germany, who will stay one year. Her name is Franzeska Seyfang, she is 19 years old, she will participate in Coloured Glasses workshops. She had already been a Coloured Glasses volunteer for YFU Germany three years ago and she tells...
1,832 kilometers, 16,760 vertical meters, 160 liters of water, 71 bananas and 132,000 calories burned This is the balance of Judith's and Thomas's road bike tour, which took them from Valencia in Spain to Rum in Tyrol in 15 days of July - for a good cause. What started as a joke...
The Coloured Glasses activities we worked on were an important part of our Venice YFU Italy volunteer training camp that took place between July 23rd and July 28th. The aim of the campus was forming new prepared volunteers and raising awareness concerning Venice’s serious problems. The activity involved 9 volunteers...
In August Coloured Glasses Austria got nominated for the "Place of Respect" by Respekt.net! For this we had to submit a project description in which we described objectives and past activities run during CGrow. We have now reached the shortlist and thus the crowed-voting at respekt.net. In Austria, many thousands of people...
I came from Estonia to spend half a year in Stockholm, Sweden as an intern performing Coloured Glasses workshops. In Sweden they give workshops in schools, but also during different events, for organisations and for Camps and Youth clubs. On this particular day, we had four workshops for the Youth organisation...
YFU Italy, in partnership with Navigando, has just finished carrying out the orientation meetings all around Italy for the exchange students 2018/2019. Many different places have been visited, starting from Catania and Palermo in Sicily, from Rome to Civitanova Marche on the Adriatic coast and from Milano to Cagliari in Sardinia. Coloured...
I have been the Regional Coordinator for the Coloured Glasses project in France since last October. I was part of staff in YFU France office in Tours. For my last newsletter, I wanted to share this 9-month-experience within the CGrow world. From the Coloured Glasses training which I attended to...