Municpality of Lehliu-Gara, is a local public institution and its Department of Culture, Sport and Youth develops activities with young people.
Lehliu Gara is situated in the northern part of Calarasi County, Romania. The capital of Romania is Bucharest. Official language is Romanian and official currency is Leul (1Euro=3,8 Lei).
Lehliu is situated on the 66th kilometre of the highway that links Bucharest with Constanta (The Sun's Highway), on the 67th kilometre of the National Road no. 3, that links Bucharest with Calarasi, and on the 70th kilometre of the Bucharest - Constanta railroad.
Lehliu Gara is situated in the northern part of Calarasi County, Romania having direct border with Ialomita County
Our town is not an old one, it was founded between the two world wars around the railway station , but it was established as a town only in 1989. There are the ruins of some old mansion in the area and some Traco-Dacian ruins.
The towns territory counts 8.206 ha, from which 500 ha represent the towns belonging localities' built space (Lehliu - Gara , Razvani , and Buzoieni ), 165 ha are occupied by forests, whilst the rest of the land (84%) is represented by agricultural land, mostly private owned and the habitable surface according to the 2004 data is 82,351 m² in total. The total number of houses built in this land is 2,409 out of which 2,361 belong to private funds and only 48 belong to the public.
The town's climate is temperate - continental, with high temperature fluctuations between winter and summer dropping below -20 Celsius degrees in winter and with strong blowing winds, whilst the summers are very warm, with temperatures above 30 Celsius degrees and usually very small amounts of rain.
The agricultural land represents the most important natural resource of the town. The soils are composed of different types of chernozem and alluvial soils that make them very fertile. They are exploited mostly by agricultural associations and cultivated generally with cereals and technical plants.
Local fauna is specific to field areas, from small furry animals like rabbits of the foxes to bigger animals such as dears and wild boars. From the birds species the most present are pheasants, quails, turtle doves, larks, sparrows, and crows, etc.
Local flora is a prairie type one, the most important plant species being: colchicum, violas, milfoil, shepherd's purse, turkey's topknot, stork's bill etc.
Lehliu-Gara consists of three settlements, Lehliu with 3,731 inhabitants, R?zvani with 2,266 inhabitants, and Buzoieni with 570 inhabitants. The total count of population is 6,567 inhabitants with the trend for increasing. The population mix in Lehliu consists of 51.9% women and great capacity of young people (over 63% of the population is under 40 years old).
The unemployment rate in Lehliu is (2%) where most of the working population is occupied in agriculture and they do not usually register as unemployed, but also their income and benefits tend to be very low comparing to national standards of employed persons.
The fact that the Sun's Highway is positioned very close to the town has created the premises for good transportation facilities for the investors, so implicitly for the overall development of the city, e.g.: large Biodiesel plant (60 million Euros investment) is already functional since February 2007, Spotwear , a clothes factory ,some food processing companies have already declared their interest to invest in the opening of a few production units in the town , even the area is mainly an agricultural one.
Not only the city's access to the highway connecting Constanta and Bucuresti, but, regular bus lines and railway to other important towns like: Constanta, Slobozia , Calarasi makes easy access to our town. We have also cheap taxi transportation
and local bus lines to rural areas nearby .
Lehliu Gara is a regional educational centre, with over 2000 pupils in kindergardens, schools and a highschool .They also develop some extra -curricular activities like :festivals , trips, youth exchanges, partnerships with other schools.
Lehliu Gara is a regional strategic health care centre with a modern hospital and health care infrastructure, delivering medical services for the entire population situated up to 30 km radius from the town.
. Cultural activities
There is a new Culture Center .The public library and "Papi" an ICT center with 24 hour internet connection for young people are also housed here. Other cultural activities like : festivals , concerts take place outdoors in special places in summer.
The office of the Cultural and Youth Department is located in the Municpality building and it is fully equipped with all the equipment necessary for effective work, but the volunteers ' activities will be mainly developed at the new and modern Cultural Center.
There is a sport center in open air with a capacity of 6-700 supporters , a bathroom, cabins, central heat. Football, handball, basketball , volleyball and tennis competitions can take place here.
We have a senior football team in C league and 2 junior football teams.
The whole area nearby is crammed with lakes and ponds famous for international fishing contests
We, in Lehliu Gara, the Green and Sustainable Town en route for the Black Sea, perceive our community to become a strong partner in eco-friendly agricultural and business innovation, an example for business stimulation and economic growth and a dedicated environmental supporter, investing in education, e-governance and lifelong learning, valuing its citizens as the most important asset.
During project the volunteers will have full suport from the organization team , the coordinator of the project lives in the same town and will provide 24 hours assistance, the mentor will come once a week as our organziation is the only in town which has such a project and we will be counselled by other experienced organization .We will provide language training to the volunteers in order to help them to integrate easily in the day by day activities and every day life.
As we first intend to be a EVS group host organzisation we will offer profesional assistance in every field the volunteers develop activities but we won't limit their access to one field and we offer the posibility to show their creativity , involvement and more they will be encouraged to propose new approaches and ideas in the projects as we consider the vounterrs presence a great opportunity to promote cultural diversity and European and active citizenship.They will have the freedom to be involved in all the other projects with young people like:festivals, trips , youth exchanges ,or to bring initiatives or modify the tasks in direction to their learnng processes and at the mentor's recommandation.
The volunteers will carry out the following general activities:
-will assist their coordinator and take part in day by day activities at their department (2 hours per day)
-will be involved in organizing meetings , conferances , debates,promotion,festivals and other social events (once a week)
-will inform themselves about current activities (1 hour per day)
-prepare visits and workshops about their activity and about volunteering for other organizations and institutions (once a month)
-prepare articles and reports and updates their department web site (6 hours per month)
-will assist in project development , writing and implementation of project implemetation( 6 hours per week)
The volunteers will be provided training concerning project management (including writing , cycle of a project, implementation), youth work and other themes realted to volunteering and will have the opporotunity to practice all these in other youth projects developed by our organization.
They will be also helped to be hosted in local families during the week-end and to take part of some daily activities in such an enviroment as we think this a good opportunity to find out and to share family, cultural and national values and customs , traditons and to learn easily foreign language .
We belive that through all these activities the volunteers will gain not only new knowledge in some institutional fields( as urbanism, psiho-pedagogical, cultural, media) but , more, new organizational skills, compentences , experience in other like :project management , youth advocacy, foreign customs , traditions and countries, communication, ICT.
EVS volunteer will be accomodate in the center of the town ,will have access full time to a complete equipped office .All the accomodation, mentoring , language assistance , travel, transport costs will be covered.As for meals he can choose whether to prepare food or choose to eat in a restarant or canteen paid in advance .He will receive the pocket money according to the established sums by the Youth in Action Agency at the beginning of every month .
As a sending organziation will provide full support to our volunteers offering them training and informing them before leaving about the other organization , location , accomodation , activities and organizing meeting with other volunteers in order to share their experience , making all the travel , visa etc arrangements We will provide support on the whole period of volunteering keeping in touch not only with our volunteers but also with the host organzation.After their return will support them to integrate again in the society , to create opportunities to share their experience gained in other organziation and country.
Our organization requires young people interested and motivated to work in the field of culture, pedagogical , urban development and media and communication / youth information .We think that the youngsters between 18-30 are the most suitable for our organziation and some basic knowledge and skills in urbanism , media and pedagogical field will be an advantage as well as interest in working with children and young people from other nationalities.A positive attitude and motivation are recommended in order to get involved and to support youth participation and citizenship,curiousity to discover other cultures and civilizations , traditions , ways of living , cultural diversities and to bring his own contribution to all activities developed and to initiate new ones as part as a team.
We don't have any preference considering the sending organization as working with children in cultural and pedagogical programmes and in urbanism field is most of the time challanging and creative and we hope he(she) will consider us a partner and work together as a team.
It is recommended for the volunteer to have basic knowledge of English,French or German as these are the languages of communication.
The recruitment process will be objective in according to the aims of our organziation and realized through the same questionner to all the candidates.
Our organization is in a small town, where the overall security is on high level due to the fact that people know each other, there is no xenophobia and the people of Lehliu-Gara are very friendly and opened towards foreigners.
The volunteers accomodation will be in the center of the town , having all the facilities and ready access to all important institutions including the police station and the hospital.The coordinator of the programme lives in the same town and the volunteers will have the direct support of a mentor once a week and through internet all the time as well with their families and their sending organziation.
The coordinator and the mentor will facilitate the process of adaptation , integration in groups of younsters with the same interests and age and of social coehesion.They will assure that rules the like: drink and drugs prohibition are respected, that there isn't sexual harassement in these groupsThey will also supervise the activities where the volunteers will be involve in order to be appropriate to the vounteers profile , capacities and skills. A guide of rules will be eleborated by our organization in colaboration with the mentor and will be send to the send organization in order to be handled to the volunteers when they have prepared for the vounteer sevice. This and the programme of their activities will be a useful tool for them as they need to know exactly thier rights and responsabilities .In this booklet there will be also mentioned the people in charge with different services. More, the coordinator and the mentor will faciliatate the inclusion of the volunteers hosting them in families during some week-ends.
The confidentiality will be respected at the voulneers request as long as this will not contravene the , rules, agreements of our country, our community and of the voulnteers themselves

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