Do you already have it? Today we ask you to be in the Centre, for tomorrow You could be in the Centre in the Centre Youth Association?

The Menedékház Foundation’s volunteers and their coordinator visited Nyíregyháza on April 26 the Community FACES Youth Office and Community Space where they spent a full day with our Hungarian-speaking volunteers in Nyíregyháza.

On 23th of April afternoon with starting at 4 o’clock in the framework of the ÖMÉ environment protection week the ESC volunteers of Szolnok organized a short, online, quiz-related, informative event called Renewable energy.

The Debrecen ESC volunteer girls, on 22th of April on the Earth day, with the title of Think for our Earth they organized an online roundtable conversation on the environmental protection week in the framework of the ÖMÉ.

Luckily for us, the last week’s Saturday was rainless, so a couple of us we were able to go out into the woods of Pallag and we could gather the peoples’ thrown garbage.

Our ESC volunteers of Szolnok and IKSZ youngsters in 18 th of April (Sunday) participated in a large-scale event in the Clean up the Tisza! garbage collector action, which was organized by the NHSZ.

We celebrate The Hungarian Year of Volunteering (ÖMÉ) in 2021 which is consists of four thematical weeks and our Association also joins to this initiative.

We did an interview with a former EVS volunteer of our Association, who spent 1 year at the Association as a volunteer. In the interview which is made with Magdalena Mroczka we can gain insight deeper to the beauty of the foreign volunteering and its mysteries, also we can know that, how a former volunteer of ours sees the Centre. In the future we will do interviews with more Centre people. Read those too then.

2021 is the Volunteering year of Hungary. This sequence of events’ not secret goal is to acknowledge those people’s work, who works as a volunteer. They are helping without holding back their knowledge and time, and make their environment better. That’s way the Volunteer of the Week series was launched.

Are you interested in the environment protection? Would you like to meet with similar people like you? To talk and exchange views about the topic? Then here is your place and sign up to our program. With the title “IMAGINE FOR OUR EARTH” will be organized a great online round table conversation on 22th of April 2021 on Earth Day.

With the International Charlemagne Prize Foundation in Aachen, the European Parliament has launched a call for young people living in any EU Member States to submit a project run by and / or for young people that contributes to the development of Europe.

The Centre Youth Association’s two volunteers in Debrecen, Tímea Csortán and Tímea Kiss turned to the secondary school students with a very creative idea. This idea was a photo competition, the purpose of the volunteers with this was to move out the youngsters and unleash their creativity, all of this in that way they had to take a picture about the streets and squares of Debrecen in addition a potato had to be in the photo.

In Saturday morning with some volunteers, we went to the Békás Lake again, but this time our task was to collect the bird feeders.

For the JNSZDÖK were implemented the last board meeting, because the actual board members’ mandatory expired. Most of the resigning board members will run again in the April election, so the farewell wasn’t so “final”, but in the closing board occasion there were some, who dropped some tears down, of course the reason for this was more the happiness, the recalling of the good memories rather than sadness.

The HABIDISZ held their closing staff meeting due to the circumstances held in the online space, but the enthusiastic staff members still participated in large numbers in this way too in the program.

The four student governments that have helped with the professional, legal and financial support of the KÖZ-Pont Youth Association are looking for new leaders. With the end of March, the previous board members’ one year mandatory expires. Karcag City Student Self-Government, the Children and Youth Student Self-Government of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, and the Alliance of Student Self-Governments’ of Hajdú-Bihar County, and the Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Student Self-Government looks for the student leaders for the next year. If you feel in yourself some commitment, courage, then apply you can do it until 25 of March!

On Saturday, March 20, the National Student Government Meeting organized by the Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Student Government was held online, where youth leaders from all over the country were present from Debrecen to Szombathely.

Last Saturday we visited the Together for Animals Association (animal shelter) in Debrecen again with our secondary school volunteers to love the animals who living there. The cold breeze in the morning decreased when we got out, we even had a good weather in the morning.

On Saturday morning, ESC volunteer girls from Nyíregyháza and School Community Service performer students woke up to a cool but brighter sunny day who visited the Állatbarát Foundation.

The Red Cross organized a blood donation on 11 th of March. The new location was the VOKE House of Culture. Our ESC volunteers are helped in the Red Cross’s blood donation’s preparation and packing away the things.

The board members of the KVDÖK consider it important in the virus situation too, that keep the connection with staff members, so on 11 th of March the have organized a playful team building, where the interested youngsters could try themselves in a Disney-Pixar quiz.

We are preparing with a great online program for those who would like to spend their time with a little puzzle.

On a sunny but very windy Saturday, some secondary school students, volunteers from Debrecen, a co-worker from Debrecen and the ESC volunteers they set off to take dogs for a walk to the animal shelter.

The Karcag City Student Government between February 15 and March 5 organized a fundraising for the Kóbor Szívek Állatmentő Alapítvány.

We did an interview with one of our Association’s important partner, with whom we cooperated in many programs and events. In the interview with Orsolya Polgárné Fekete we can see a little deeper into the school student governments, also we cloud get know how a student government helper teacher sees the KÖZ-Pont. In the future we will do interviews with KÖZ-Pont people, read those too.

On March 4, 2021, the five-part program series of the HABIDISZ County Study Forum (METFO) was completed, the purpose of this was to promote the further learning of young people. Similarly, to the past four round table meeting it has been implemented in the framework of the online space, also to the youngsters also two university students spoke about their own experiences.

Our volunteer Alejandro came from Spain and Joele came from Italy as a part of their European Solidarity Corps project they teach in different classes in some Primary and Secondary schools their own mother language also English. Considering the current epidemic situation most of the times in online, but as possible they give classes in person.

Our Hungarian-speaking volunteers in Nyíregyháza don't waste their days here unnecessarily either. They get in every week skill developer tasks, we help them to implement their planned online programs, they are participating in the local student government’s events, also they are doing some work which is useful for the community regularly.

1th of March, 2021 the team of Szolnok expanded with two new people, after the end of the quarantine our new ESC volunteers: Kincső Kopacz (from Csíkszentkirály) and Szilárd Fodor (from Csíkszereda).

Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Student Self-Government held a public student life weekend in February 27-28 in the online sphere. The meeting was planned to be personal but because of the restrictions it went in the online way, but it wasn’t affected a lot the success of the weekend. Closely 20 students applied from more than 10 schools to the two days long program, which was divided to 6 sections.

On 26 th of February on Friday the Children and Youth Self-Government of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County (SZSZBGYIÖK) organized an online event for their fellow students, which was the penultimate event of the current board.

Saturday morning the early risers could wake up to bright sunshine. This is how those youth of Debrecen did who applied to the dog walking to spend their morning with company of dogs.

Some people are don’t know where they would like to go for further education after final school exam. There are few who checked some universities but they don’t know well in details enough the given faculty. So, we organized a new County Studies Forum (METFO), where we could invite two university students again who presented their own faculties in the framework of our METFO event. This time a mechanical/electricity engineer and a lawyer introduced us the mysteries of their profession.

The Karcag City Student Government is active during the virus situation. They are organizing a fundraising for the Kóborszívek Állatmenhely in February. On the week the donation collector boxes have been made and these were put to the Arany János Primary School and to the Karcagi Általános Iskola és Alapfokú Művészeti Iskola Kiskulcsosi Általános Iskola’s institutions also to the Állati jó falatok pet food stop.

The HABIDISZ held the County Study Forum (METFO) program series III. event. The students could get know useful information about the through further learning by the teachers of the Balásházy János Balásházy János Gyakorló Technikuma, Gimnáziuma és Kollégiuma. Considering the current circumstances, the event was organized online again.

On a sunny, but cold and frosty Saturday morning two ESC volunteers from Debrecen and some young student visited the Békás lake in the Nagyerdő with that purpose to fill up the existing birdfeeders with food. Thus, help the birds eat in the winter time too.

In February we visited again with the School Community Service performer students and with our ESC Hungarian speaker volunteers the Burattino Puppet Theatre.

We did an interview with one of our Association’s important member, who could show her knowledge in several roles. In the interview with Zsuzsanna Tündik we can know her past in the Association with 20 questions. In the future, we will do interview with several KÖZ-Pont people, read them as well.

No matter how much life seems to stop now, or slowly it seems that we are already forgetting what it was like to live our daily lives in the normal wheelhouse. Fortunately, we can state that it isn’t like that yet. This is proven by the need of the youth to belong to the community and maintain social relationships.

Currently we are working on that, after the restrictions we can start our work with as many new members as possible.

HABIDISZ held the February staff meeting online due to the current conditions, but the staff members appeared in a big number in the program.

The first English club was held on 8 th of February in the Color Space Office of Szolnok. From February it will be held on every Monday.

Depending on the situation of the coronavirus, according to our plans around April-May would our Open Café project start, which we cooperating with the INPRO, Dideas and No Gordio organizations.

On a gloomy, a little rainy Saturday 3 ESC volunteers, a fellow worker of Debrecen and some young student helped with assistance activities at the Dorkász Service. In the morning they gathered on the bus station, where after the purchase of the ticket, got on the vehicle and they set off towards to the Dorcas Camping near the Lake Vekeri.

Slowly we can consider it as a regular monthly program, that the participators in the Debrecen Civilians Volunteer Program, the School Community Service performer students are visit the Dorkász Service, and they provide assistance in the food packaging which is offered to the service.

The National Agency organized a one-week long training, where all of the seven ESC volunteers were participated.

We asked the Children and Youth Self-Government of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County’s staff members and the board members about what is their opinion about, why they like, and why is that is good to be a member of the SZSZBGYIÖK?

On the 1th of February following a long trip our four new ESC volunteers have came to Nyíregyháza. The European Union have created the European Solidarity Corps for that purpose, to provide opportunity for the youth to participate in voluntary or professional project work in the interests of the community in their own country or in other countries.

HABIDISZ chose continuing education as the topic of this year's first round table discussion. The participants in divided times could get know more information about from the Centre Youth Association’s co-workers and their university course. Due to the circumstances, the event was held online.

The SZÖSZ (Szolnok Volunteering Service) advertising a poster maker competition with the For me the School Community Service and/or volunteering heading, for the School Community Service performer students, but willingly waiting for those’ creations too how already performed the 50 hours.