this time it was different for me...instead of a study visit, i went as a volunteers with my friends!
the 72 hours in slovenia happened between 25 and 28th of october 2010. this time it was different for me...instead of a study visit, i went as a volunteers with my friends! we set up a group and applied for a surprise project that took place in this beautiful place. in celje a big garage with old and broken bycikles was waiting for us and another group. we were part of the recikel bicikel group! but we found time to take pictures-to-our-mothers and get back to work again! this project exists not only during the 72h. a group of friends decided to teach everyone how to use tools and how to recycle bike materials. so they collect bikes and restore them. when they are ready, they are given to institutions or sold in auctions. all the profit goes to setting more workshops! me and jarka started working in a little bike with no tires and no breaks. we called her "sissi". it was pink with with polka dots, and we loooooooooooooooved sissi! we loooooooooooooooved as well the intercultural nights in the cottage, the food, the music, the great people! and the photoshootings with sissi were endless, we were so proud! behold, not only bikes were made! and here the whole group with all the bikes recycled during three days! thank you! it was so so great!
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yes, we went to switzerland to see their 72 hours! 72 hodín bez kompromisu is a project done in 7 other countries and has now an international website. 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 inauguration on the 8th of september set the beggining of all the projects all over the country. this time - they've made the project before in 2005 - they gathered around 300 000 volunteers all over the country. here are the international guests: hungary, slovakia and austria. and this is the 3 language call center. 72h there is a bit different. 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 was the "crisis department" that, fortunately, never had a crisis! this was our first visit to a project, 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. on the second day of the 72h we went to the french part of switzerland. 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 we had lunch in the park and visited two other projects. this one was made by scouts and they had to build 5 circuits with recycled material. they were as well gathering money for handicaped scouts. then the last project was a kind of bycicle fair/hospital. first they were trying to get as much bycicles as possible to send to africa. then they had mechanincs, paints, "pimp my bike" studios and so they were repairing bycicles. it was an amazing four days, full of ideas, sun and inspiration!
wouldn't it be great to have an european 72h? in portugal as well, hu? next is already in slovakia! |
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