At the beginning of June 2015 Green Teen Team Foundation members visited the town of Armeniș in Caraș-Severin County, western Romania. The visit was to see a presentation of student’s conservation projects. The trip was awesome! The student’s projects were amazing and it was decided that not only would they all win prizes but they would all be implemented over the coming year!
Team 5
Project Title Recycle and stop polluting
The problem identified:
Irresponsible garbage disposal and a polluted environment
Vision:
Our project will improve awareness at community level in regard to maintaining a clean environment and contribute to increasing volunteer activities in this sense.
Main goal:
Reduce environmental pollution caused by irresponsible garbage disposal in our community and increase volunteering activities amongst students in Teregova
Objective:
Increased involvement from the local community in activities which promote a clean environment and improving the state of our environment through volunteer activities surrounding recycling garbage
Activities:
- Kick-off meeting and appointing the project team
- Project Coordinator
- Assistant
- Administrative and financial assistant
- Monitoring and evaluation assistant
- Communications assistant
- Organising the “Little Artisans” club
- Planning and disseminating communications materials
- Forming a volunteer group and establishing key partnerships
- Planning medium-term volunteer activities
- Monitoring and evaluation of key project activities
- On-going promotion of products resulted from the “little artisans” club
Beneficiaries:
Direct: 10 students and teachers that form the project team
Indirect: 1000 locals from Teregova
Duration:
8 months
Expected results:
- A dedicated club is formed, with a minimum of 5 core members
- A strategy & club vision/mission and operating rules established for “Little Artisans”
- 3 awareness campaigns conducted at community level (including the production of X flyers)
- A group of X volunteers committed to supporting “Little Artisans” club activities
- A one year plan for volunteer activities coordinated by the little Artisans club and executed by the
- wider volunteer team
- A project monitoring report
- An evaluation report
- A online page showcasing the club’s activities
- X press articles published in local media featuring the club’s activities
Team 2
Project title:
Nature is our school!
The problem identified:
Our natural surroundings are polluted
Our vision:
Young people and locals in Teregova are interested in protecting nature and involved in volunteering activities in this sense.
Goal:
Improving the health of our natural environment
Objectives:
Locals in Teregova are aware of the importance of our natural environment and become more involved in activities to protect nature.
“Eco-School” club is established and runs activities that help protect nature.
Activities:
- Kick-off meeting and appointing the project team
- Project Coordinator » Tudor
- Assistant » Roxana
- Administrative and financial assistant » Ioan
- Monitoring and evaluation assistant » Daria
- Communications assistant » Roxana
- Organising the “Ecoschool” club
- Planning and disseminating communications materials
- Forming a volunteer group and establishing key partnerships
- Planning medium-term volunteer activities
- Garbage collection activities
- Drawing exhibition
- Setting up a small dendrological park
- Launching an “Ecoschool” magazine
- Organising an outdoor biking competition
- Monitoring and evaluating the project
- Promotional and communication activities
- Building up a dedicated webpage or blog
- Producing and distributing promotional flyers and engaging a local TV station
Beneficiaries:
Direct 40 people
Indirect 800 people
Duration:
9 Months
Expected result:
- The core team of the Ecoschool club is established
- A strategy & club vision/mission and operating rules established for Ecoschool
- Awareness raising campaigns that reach 800 people in the local community and engaging at least 40 people
- A core team of volunteers is formed and sign volunteering contracts
- A detailed work plan for one year including at least 5 volunteering activities organised
- 9 monthly reports and 9 monthly evaluations
- A web page, 40 brochures and 45 flyers
Team 3
Project title Stop deforestation!
The issue:
Deforestation on the southwestern peak of the Semenic mountains
Our mission:
Replanting trees on the southwestern peak of the Semenic Mountains as a step towards the natural regeneration of the forest habitat in the area, which if restored, can have a positive contribution in reducing the effects of climate change, reducing landslides and becoming a prime habitat for wild animals in the areas.
Goal:
Improving the health of our natural environment
Objectives:
- Young people and locals in Teregova are interested in protecting nature and involved in volunteering activities in this sense.
- Improving the health of our environment by replanting an area that was once covered in forest.
Activities:
- Kick-off meeting and appointing the project team
- Project Coordinator
- Assistant
- Administrative and financial assistant
- Monitoring and evaluation assistant
- Communications assistant
- Organising the “Life of the forest” club
- Awareness campaign about the replanting initiative
- Establishing and formalising the partnerships necessary for the replanting activities
- Detailed plan of reforestation milestones
- Sourcing the trees for replanting
- Identifying the replanting area
- Replanting activities
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Communication of the impact of the project
- Setting up a dedicated webpage to the project
- Designing and printing information materials
Beneficiaries:
Direct: wildlife and the local community in the area
Indirect:
Results:
- The core team of the “The life of the forest” club is established
- A strategy & club vision/mission and operating rules drafted
- 3 Awareness raising events that reach 1000 people in the local community and engaging at least 300 people which take part in the replanting activities
- A core team of volunteers is formed and sign volunteering contracts
- A detailed work plan for one year including at least 5 volunteering activities organised
- 9 monthly reports and 9 monthly evaluations
- A web page, 100 brochures
Team 7
Project Title Nature heals any wound
Vision:
Using natural resources sustainably by harvesting wild medicinal plants and sending them to vulnerable communities in Africa.
Goal:
More volunteering activities that value natural resources sustainably for a humanitarian goal
Objectives:
- Young people and locals in Teregova are interested in volunteering activities a humanitarian purpose
- Collecting and using wild medicinal plants from the area to help 20 young people from Africa
Activities:
- Kick-off meeting and appointing the project team
- Project Coordinator
- Assistant
- Administrative and financial assistant
- Monitoring and evaluation assistant
- Communications assistant
- Setting up a collection room to store the medicinal plants
- Promotional campaign encouraging people to collect medicinal plants
- Forming a team of volunteers
- Work plan for the plant collection
- Day trips organised to collect the wild medicinal plants
- Establishing the products which will be made from the medicinal plants
- Processing and packaging the products
- Monitoring and evaluating the project
- Promoting the project activities to the local community
- Setting up a project journal (online) or blog
- Design and print information materials
Beneficiaries:
60+ direct beneficiaries
1000 people from the local community aware of the project
Expected results:
- The core team is established
- A collection and drying room is set up as well as functioning rules for the space
- One communication campaign that reaches 1000 people in the local community
- A core team of volunteers is formed and signed volunteering contracts
- A detailed work plan for one year
- 9 monthly reports and 9 monthly evaluations
- An online journal, and 100 flyers produced