switzerland was the first, and we went there with colleagues from austria and hungary to get inspiration and motivation from a swiss style mega project: flawless and super organized. more info on their 72 here: www.72h.ch
the volunteers apply for something but only on the first day - the 8th - do they know where will they work.
so, in a new place, without materials, without anything, just a project in hands, what to do?
the 72h has it's own call center connected to the internet and to the radio! the groups that needed, for example, a vagon to put bycicles and send them to africa, could call the call centre with this request. after, the call center will inform the radio that would mention this need in it's normal broadcasting!
luckily, a listener will help and everything ends ok.
exciting, hu?
this group had to organize a neighbourhood party for circa 300 people. at the time they had the soundsystem and were a bit worried about the food. they were very organized.
there we visited my favourite project. a group of minor refugees, all with 18 or under, were doing a dictionary in 7 languages. coming from paquistan, afghanistan, eritreia, sudan and other countries, these kids decided which words or sentences could be useful for the next refugees.
they are involved in a very interesting project called speak out, that intends to get attention to the problems of the minor refugees. more info here.
then they had mechanincs, paints, "pimp my bike" studios and so they were repairing bycicles.
wouldn't it be great to have an european 72h? in portugal as well, hu?
next is already in slovakia!