The best is yet to come....

2025 has been one of the most meaningful years of my life....both personally and professionally. Turning 33 felt like reaching a new milestone, a point where experience, purpose, and gratitude finally meet! Through my ongoing journey with Inclusion Go, I’ve continued to grow not only as a youth worker but as a human being deeply connected to the people and communities I serve.

This April, we gathered in Brindisi Montagna for the YEAR project, a unique experience that brought together young people from five EU countries to explore and reflect on human rights. For me, this topic is not just a field of work, it’s a calling. Since completing my EVS, I have felt an even stronger responsibility to advocate for equality, peace, and respect for every person, regardless of their background. Working with youth has allowed me to witness how awareness can become action, and how dialogue can shape a more just world.

During those days in Brindisi Montagna and around our region, surrounded by curious, open-minded participants, I felt once again that the essence of youth work lies in connection, between cultures, generations, and hearts. We shared stories, built bridges of understanding, and rediscovered what it means to belong to this planet together and be part of a "bigger picture".

Group picture watching Matera

I also feel incredibly grateful because throughout all these journeys, I have never walked alone. Maja, my soulmate and life companion, has always been there, helping me to see the depth of our work and reminding me of the love and passion behind it. Together, we have turned challenges into lessons and projects into opportunities to bring people closer.

Looking back, I see the YEAR project as a raw diamond, a small but precious moment that has added new clarity to my path. Each activity, each conversation, each smile from a young participant makes my life more transparent, more luminous. It reminds me why I chose to dedicate myself to this mission: to help young people believe in themselves, in each other, and in a more peaceful tomorrow.

Youth Worker… in Action! Back to Help Decision Makers and Young Makers

 

AFA - Art for Action a new adventures in NFE!

It feels good to be back, and sometimes there are experiences that truly inspire you and remind you why you do what you do. Art for Action was one of those moments. It was a project where I could see young people and decision makers coming together, making a real difference through dialogue, creativity and cooperation.

Me and Aras DM from MEGA

As a youth worker my main focus has always been to help young people grow, reduce barriers to participation and feel part of their communities. And sometimes you get to witness that happening in front of your eyes, and it gives you a deep sense of purpose. Since my EVS experience I have been constantly engaged in helping our NGO develop new opportunities for youth, meeting inspiring people and communities that truly believe in participation and solidarity.

For this reason I would like to thank AIART from Potenza and Simply Services from Malta, who invited me to be part of this amazing journey and to support this group of young people in exploring what active participation and civic engagement really mean. Throughout the project I had the chance to meet incredible individuals, to see young minds growing in confidence and to watch communities come together to face challenges and build a stronger and more inclusive future.

Street view of Valletta

Art for Action reminded me that real change starts when people listen, collaborate and believe that their actions can make a difference. Seeing youth and decision makers share the same space, ideas and hopes was one of the most powerful outcomes I could have asked for.

A EVS adventure!

Memories of March

This month reserved me a lot of surprise til the end. In fact between the 24th till the 28th of March me, together with Enes and Nadja we took part in the MTE (Mid Term Evaluation) that like the OAT it has to be done from the NA for the volunteers that are working in the different country in Europe. This meeting is also useful for the self evaluation of the EVS volunteers during them stage that can be long term or short term.

From left to right Me, Nadja and Enes
In background Bran Castle

Before the activity started, together with Nadja and Enes we went to visit Bran castle. The travel was really long and it look like and odyssey especially in the round trip back. The travel  was really long but lucky for us we took the sleeping wagon that for a travel like this is really good  (tips that I suggest for future volunteers in case you want to do long travel with the Train).
We arrive in the hotel really early and we choose to go travel around the area. We went to see the Bran castle that it is really a good place, touristic and  surrounded by natural landscape. After we went inside the castle to see how was the life in the court. The castle it really amazing and we had a lot of fun and we took a lot of pictures in the castle.
After we saw Bran castle we come back in Poiana Brasov in the Hotel Poiana Silver Mountain, to meet all the others participants and have the first meeting with all of them. We more than 70 volunteers in my opinion maybe too many to build connection with all of them but also interesting because there were a lot of stories to listen and adventure done from different people .

During the meeting we share each others our experience and the activities done until now with the children results and possible actions. In the end of the meeting I realize how much is important for me know go and have a University degree and I am more focus on what I want to do. I like to help and support, make people think and improve competences as problem solving.
Maybe that I can become a trainer till the end of this EVS will be difficult but, I am sure that I can improve my self and that one day I can become a trainer, which is committed to promoting knowledge, education and social inclusion.
In only few more months my experience will arrive to an end but as I always wrote I will do all my best do collect all the experience possible that this adventure is giving to me and I will  help and support all the people that will join to work to promote education. 

Meeting at the SPA with the mentors!

Memories of March

Team Building in Baile Herculane

In the end of February, beginning of March the association, Nevo Parudimos, Invite all the volunteers to have a team building with the mentors in Baile Herculane.

We did a week-end  of activities and fun in the "Hotel Domogled". 

During the experience the staff members of the associations, Claudiu and Lilla, prepared activities of team building and problem solving to do with the mentors to discuss all together about obstacles and future adventures that we can face until the end of our experience.

Among all the activities that we did I think that two of them were really important one we the "Walk and Talk" that we did among volunteers and mentors in the city where we took also some pictures all together. 

And the other were the informal moments that we spent among volunteers in the pool of the restaurant.during our free time. Right now the EVS family in Resita is growing more and more and is difficult spent time all together, but thank to this experience we had really  a great time to have fun among us.

I really like also Baile Herculane, because is a thermal place where is possible to have bath also in natural spring. Before the end of my EVS I think that I will go there again maybe to chill out a bit 😉

My first travel 😄

Memories of  February

Discovering Sibiu

In the end of this wonderful winter, full of surprise, new adventures and new events I finally took some of my free days to discover together with a special person, the city of Sibiu. One of the most beautiful city that I saw until now in Romania.

View of the city from the Council Tower

The travel was a little bit long because there is not a direct communication between Resita and Sibiu and we start our trip from Timisoara. We spent around 6 hours and half of traveling, but the train was almost comfortable. 

We arrive in Sibiu during the night and unfortunately we were tired for the travels to go and have a walk in the city.

We book a residence Casa Hermanni, really close to the center to be able to move our self in the best way possible in the city.  The apartment was really good and also the owner was always available with suggestion and to help us to have a wonderful experience in the city. 

City Wall

During our visit a lot of building capture our attention and also them style really unique, different from other city in Romania, quite medieval in some part of the city.

With few knowledge about the city and it's history we start to travel around and take some random pictures.With a little bit of luck we found a police man that was interested to meet tourist especially in this time of the year. We had a good conversation and after he suggest us to go and visit the city from another point of view, a place a little bit upper from our potion, he suggest us to go and visit the Council Tower. 

Council Tower of Sibiu

To go upstairs we pay a ticket of 2 Lei per person, not expensive at all for the have a magic view. The view is amazing, we had really a great time and when we finish our journey we ask more information about other place to visit, museum, historical place and other tower is possible. The tourist guide suggest us to go also in the tower of the the big Church. We were surprise that was possible to climb it and the experience sound interesting, so we accept this feedback  and we went to the big church.

In my opinion the most wonderful view was from the the council tower but also from the Church's Tower is it possible to see all the city and also more because is in a position more higher that the previous one.

We were so focus to visit the city that after we choose also to try some original dishes from the region, because we are in Transylvania. We try also some restaurants from the city. The first one "Crama Sibiul Vechi"  following the feedback of Google Maps that lead us in this good place where the food was really good and also the place really typical.  The second one that I can suggest you is a restaurant in the "Piata Mic" little square called Lila's Restaurant. 

In the city is possible to go and eat in different place and taste a lot of original products based on traditional dishes of the Transylvania. I suggest to all the travelers to do not go in the first fast food that you find but to be more patience and try to find some traditional place.

I really enjoy my travel and I hope to be back in Sibiu to visit the city also during the summer, and to all the traversal I hope that you will enjoy the experience as I did.