The Romania Project, which started in 2015, enables young people from New Lodge youth centre and Ardoyne youth club to volunteer in orphanages This year, 24 young people from both centres will travel to Baraolt, a town close to the border with Hungary, after a year of preparations including volunteering and fundraising in Belfast explained the programme can have a profound impact on those who take part He said: “It is a year-long programme where our young people work on their personal and social development That equips them with transferrable skills for employment particularly if they’re interested in a career in youth work we have a year one group of 14 young people who are new to the project Then to mark 10 years we have a year two group with 10 young people who have previously been involved.” The groups will arrive in Romania on March 21 including volunteering at local orphanages and schools where they will deliver a workshop and a range of other activities beliefs and traditions and deliver an insight into their lives They bring their leadership skills to help the young people they work with reflect on what they want to do what barriers they face and how they can overcome them and life’s circumstances A lot of the young people we work with in Baraolt have never travelled outside of the town before so two years ago we had a fundraiser to bring 14 of them from Romania to Belfast for the first time “We have been doing this for 10 years now and the community is so used to having us there that there is a real legacy Our youth clubs have members as young as five and you see them talking about the Romania trip it’s something for the young ones in the club to aspire to and for the young people involved in the project to inspire others with their work “A big part of the programme is volunteering in the 174 Trust and building relationships with young people with disabilities They also volunteered with the People’s Kitchen working with vulnerable people across the city because as you know All this preparation leads to the trip to Romania itself.” Sean added that this year’s trip is particularly meaningful who had Down syndrome and his goal was to go on the trip this year He inspired so many people here and beyond to strive to do better You can follow updates on their social media site here. Facebook pageTwitter feed RSS feed@2025 The Irish News Ltd A familiar and atmospheric ceremony was held to hoist the huge Székely flag on Sunday afternoon The sky of Zeteváralja shined in gold and sky-blue during the flag raising ceremony and more than one hundred people followed the event and were touched by the biggest Székely flag’s inauguration the flag is more than fifteen meters long and seven meters wide The large crowd sang the Székely Anthem accompanied by the music of the brass band of Zeteváralja The Székely flag was hoisted with a thunderous applause and the mass recited the poem Invisible Flag by Albert Wass as a sign of their respect the Gyula Zathureczky Reformed Chorus of Baraolt also sang during the ceremony As part of an outside holy mass the Székely flag was blessed and then the old and even the new members of the consistory of Zeteváralja took an oath of loyalty for the laws of the Catholic Church the members constituted their help for the church and they also testified to live continuously a holy-good life and website in this browser for the next time I comment Y"},"category":false,"taxonomy":{"active":false,"name":"category"}},"markup":{"custom_html":true,"wpp-start":"","wpp-end":"<\/ul>","title-start":"","title-end":"<\/h2>","post-html":"{thumb} {title} {stats}<\/span>{excerpt}<\/p><\/li>"},"theme":{"name":""}} You have successfully joined our subscriber list © 2025 DailyNewsHungary | All rights reserved