...And the international meeting of young people, youth workers and teachers as part of the Become ECOnfident project is behind us.

Kasia, Ela, Ola, Monika, Weronika, Brigite, Lukas, Gabrielė, Kotryna, Yevhen, Maya, Adelina, Ana-Maria, Teo, Izabela - thank you for your active participation in our meeting. Indre, Ana-Bela, thank you for leading the group together.

Now we return to local activities in our project. We will advertise the results of our meeting in Poland and continue to develop the activities of our extracurricular environmental clubs.

We would like to thank Mrs. Renata Lewandowska And Mr. Leszek Kluch for the cooperation and preparation of the Polish group, and Association Evolution and Tavo Europa for their work in this next part of our project.

 

Another EcoTrip behind us. This time we went to the ‘Land of Camomile’ in Hołowno and the Municipal Public Library in Podedwórze.

Participants of the international meeting of young people, teachers and youth workers took part in:
- natural soap making workshop
- eco-print workshops
- ecological orienteering game
- ecological quiz

We would like to thank Mrs. Diana Hetman and Mrs. Agnieszka Juchno from our partner Municipal Public Library in Podedwórze for their cooperation in organizing today's adventures.

 Today during the eco-workshop we talked about:
-how much man-made waste decomposes after it is thrown away
-What we can do with used items during handmade workshops
After the talks, we used empty plastic bottles to create our 'Eco works of art'.

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 On 14th of July, participants of the Become ECOnfident project visited the Regional Waste Management Plant in Dębowiec near Zamość.

During the meeting, young people from Polish, Romanian and Lithuanian Eco-clubs could see with their own eyes what the recycling process looks like from the moment containers with waste arrive at the plant.
We saw how employees, machines and computers deal with segregation and recovery of parts from waste that can be reused.
Thanks to the courtesy of the employees, we also visited the management center, where we could see all the work on the monitors and from where you can communicate with all parts of the plant.

At the end, we could ask questions and learn more about the topics that interested us the most.
At the end our group received gifts from our hosts.

We would like to thank Mr. Paweł Bratkowski for a warm welcome and showing us around the plant.
It was a valuable ecological lesson for us, which we will use during the next days of the international meeting as part of our Become ECOnfident project.

 During the last local meeting of the Lithuanian eco-club, there were many discussions about a healthy diet, the harmful effects of sugar on our body, and eating disorders.

As part of the club's activities, its members are preparing a 3D stand to increase awareness of how much sugar is contained in unhealthy snacks. We want to educate our closest community in this regard. In addition, the students, Brigita and Paula, shared their experience from their visit to Poland. Club members were involved in the decision-making process regarding our international meeting of club members, which will take place in July in Motycz Leśny near Lublin.

 Working meeting in Poland

We have completed a working meeting in frames of the 'Become ECOnfident' project 🗣
 

We discussed:

💡previous activities of youth clubs in our project
💡ideas of young people from Poland, Lithuania and Romania for the development of clubs
💡the possibility of implementing a city game in Lublin during the international youth meeting in July
 

We have visited venue where we will meet with all groups in July 🏘

We have also prepared video materials and news for other club members from our countries 🎥
 

We also agreed what the clubs' next activities will be and our communication related to it ✍️
 

Thank you:
Indrė, Brigita, Paula 🇱🇹
Adela, Maya, Ioana 🇷🇴

We would like to thank the Polish club members and the leader of the Polish club in our project, Mrs. Renata Lewandowska for cool preparation of the meeting at school 🇵🇱 🤝

These were very intense days that will soon result in high-quality local and international activities with young people 💡

 On 25th of April another meeting of the afterschool club as part of the Become ECOnfident project was held.

Students from J. Słowacki Primary School in Małochwiej Duży took part in an elementary training for volunteers.

During the training, club members learned about the following topics:

- Volunteering in Europe and the rest of the world
- Definitions used. What is volunteering, who is a volunteer?
- How do school volunteer clubs work?
- Who can and who cannot volunteer?
- Duties and rights of a volunteer
- Volunteer motivation system
- Eco-Volunteering

The training was conducted by Krystyna Rybińska-Smyk, vice-president of the Zamojskie Voluntary Service Center.

Congratulations to the students for their activity and completion of the training
We would like to thank the carer of the club, Ms. Renata Lewandowska, for her cooperation in organizing the meeting and for a nice additional meeting with the school headmaster, Andrzej Jasionowski.