Pontes Blog

Playing Together Project

Manu — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:32:31 +0000

Between 18 and 26 September, 2009, in Călimăneşti, Vâlcea district, Romania, there were the Playing Together project activities. 5 countries participated: Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania and Spain.
It was a wonderful week where we made new friends and we learned a lot of useful tings. The project was implemented by Pontes Organization from Cluj-Napoca and the leader was Carmen Ramona Todoruţ.

I hope here we will discuss more about this project: impressions, opinions, etc. ..

Would you like to continue here our workshops?

Carmen — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:25:49 +0000

I’d like to propose you to try to discus a little bit also here about our topics from the workshops.
So, what do you think about the accesible technology?
Do you consider that this is a good way to make the visual impaired people more independent?

European friends project

Carmen — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:58:56 +0000

The “European friends” project take course between Mai 10’th and November 10’th 2009 being a youth exchange designed to increase the solidarity and tolerance between young people and to lay the basis for a solid European community which promotes multicultural values. The activities taken place between 18 and 27 July, 2009 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania and include 4 partners from EU member states: (Bulgaria, Spain, Slovenia, and Romania (which organizes the meeting). Each group had 5 members + one leader and the 5 participants included 4 persons with visual impairment or multiple disabilities and one person without disabilities. All the participants is aged 18 to 30. The project pursues the founding of an integrated community of young people with and without visual impairments. The project include a wide range of activities from interesting work-shops to sport, dance, manual abilities, etc. A special emphasis was laid on discussions regarding problems of social integration and accessible sport activities for visually impaired people.

Summer Camp

Campus — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:41:10 +0000

In the second half of July, 2009, our organisation hosts a youth camp for youngsters with visual impairment. Young people from four European countries have gathered in Cluj Napoca, Romania to exchange traditions, to build friendships and , basically, to have a good time together, Many more details about this camp will be posted on this blog on the following days.