ECHO Christmas 2019 edition

ECHO Christmas edition

Staff members

Gareth Gibson

Katarzyna Kurzeja

Dominic McGlinchey

Youth Information Manager

Youth Information Officer

YIC Youth Worker

Emma Wilkie

Derek Callaghan

CE Assistant Youth Officer Manager

CE Assistant Youth Officer Manager

LucĂ­a Valiente Bermejo

Ismael LĂłpez Conde

ESC Volunteer

ESC Volunteer

Index European Solidarity Corps ................................... 4 Youngsters’ café ..................................................... 6 Youth clubs .............................................................. 8 Youth clubs ........................................................... 10 Media Group ......................................................... 12 Yic staff .................................................................. 15 Get it right ............................................................. 18 Eurodesk ................................................................. 20 Gaisce ................................................................... 22

Kelly is currently in Madeira. She took the opportunity to volunteer over there for 7 months. She is enjoying free accommodation and some pocket money, meeting new people from different countries, learning Portuguese language, and gaining life experience. She is volunteering as tour guide!

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Sadly we are saying goodbye to our ESC participant, Claudia. We wish you best of luck and send us some sunshine from Spain!

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Ismael and LucĂ­a have come back to Spain to spend Christmas with their families.

We really hope you enjoy your time there!

Youngsters’ cafÊ

Tia Yee Look, Laura Gallagher and Darren Gallagher are 1styear LYIT students @ Digital Film and Video course.

Read their story and idea about the project they are working on as part of their studies.

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Our project is about the Cathedral Quarter and our objectives are to attract more people to the area. As part of our project we reached out to the community in that area and we realised there were a lot of young people a part of that area. We wanted to aim or project at them so we spoke with them in order to find out their needs.

They seem to be quite keen on the idea of more food places and a place to chill. Hence our idea, we combined art comfort and food and created an art cafe. We aim to have this cafe located at Churchlane. The downstairs will a cafe for all and our upstairs will be a vibrant creative area for young people. We want this place to be welcoming and comfortable for students. They would have the opportunity to display their art, gain work experience and to explore creative possibilities.

The cafe would be called Youngsters’, and the theme would be the Youth of Today.

Tia Yee Look, Laura Gallagher and Darren Gallagher are 1styear LYIT students @ Digital Film and Video course.

Youth clubs Donegal Youth Service kicked off the Christmas Craze on the 12th of December with the Youth Club Christmas Quiz. the phones were put aside, heads were being scratched and you could almost hear the cogs turning! Eight rounds ended in a sudden death Sing-Off between the two top groups. By popular vote the Four Amigo’s came out on top with the high score, taking home the Gold Medals for 2019.

Our 11 Christmas Card Competition Winners collected their well-deserved Prizes. A special mention to Matthew Clifford, winner of both the Donegal Youth Service and the All Ireland Youth Work Ireland Nollaig Competition 3 years in a row!

Well done to all our winners and a Merry Christmas to all!

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Media Group Movie time! Media Group watching “Klaus”. Is Santa Claus really hiding anywhere? Let’s find out.

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Digitize Enterprise The second transnational meeting of the project “Digitize Enterprise” was held this time in the city of Larissa, Greece.

Partners from 4 different countries – UK, Ireland (Donegal Youth Service), Spain & Cyprus visited Larissa city in the central Greece, in order to attend the meeting hosted by the Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (IED).

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Yic Staff

10th of december, Kasia and Lucía participate at St. Columba’s information fair in Stranorlar.

Welcome on board, Derek! Good morning!

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It is time to say goodbye to our wonderful work placement students, Owen and Davin.

Thank you and good luck!

Get it right Tonight Teresa is delivering workshop on media literacy and fake news to Media Group participants. Later on young people will be watching movie about social media, and working on writing reviews.

We are super busy this evening!

Teresa took part in workshop in Romania, Bacau a few months ago. The partnership between RYMD is well established since 2009.

Get it right is funded through Erasmus+ KA2 Corporation for innovation and the exchange of Good practices.

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Eurodesk Emma and Lucía have attended a new Eurodesk meeting. This time, the group has evaluated initiatives, as Time to move, and have proposed new ones for the next year. Furthermore, we assisted to information sessions from EURES, Euroguidance and Europass.

But work isn’t everything and we also have some time for fun! Malgorzata, Eurodesk coordinator in Ireland, brought a chocolate vegan cake and took us to dinner to a fantastic Moroccan restaurant with karaoke. we didn’t use the karaoke, but we’ll do it next time.

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Gaisce A warm welcome to our Gaisce volunteers!

Gaisce or ‘great achievement’ is a selfdevelopment programme for young people between the ages of 15-25 and has been in existence since 1985.

Clodagh is a good-spirited young dancer from Letterkenny town.

Courtney is a motivated young activist, also from the town.

To find out more about Gaisce and to start your journey to self-discovery visit https:// www.gaisce.ie/

Lauren is an enthusiastic young actress and singer from Dunfanaghy.

These three girls are Loreto Letterkenny TY students and volunteering with us for their Gaisce President’s Award.

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MERRY C

And a hap

CHRISTMAS

ppy new year

ECHO Christmas edition

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