Is a City in Western Romania, on Crisul Repede River, in immediat vecinity with Hungarian Border, main city of Bihor County, being the most important in historical region of Crisana. After the last assessment in 2002, the City had 206.527 inhabitants.The Metropolitan Area including other nine neighboring villages, had 305.800 inhabitants in 2007, out of which 70% romanian, 27% hungarian etc. At an altitude of 126m above sea level, Oradea is located at the opening of Crisul Repede Valley towards a plain, within a contact area between the extension of Apuseni Mountains ( Western Mountains) and Banat-Crisana Plain, a transitory region from the hilly landscape ( Western Hills, Oradea Hills, Gepis Hills) to the plain.
IGB per capita is about 150% higher than the nation average. Following 1989, due to the increase of consumers, Oradea developed economically, mainly in the field of services.
Unemployment is about 6% below the national average, but much higer then the average in the County of Bihor, which is about 2%. 60% of the Bihor' industrial production comes from Oradea, population representing about 34% from the County'total. Main industries that are represented are: furniture, textiles, lohn, foot-ware and food.
Learning opportunities that we provide for our volunteers are mainly practical. We refer hereby at the possibility to improve communication abilities (verbal and non-verbal), abbility to interract with individuals from a different cultural environment, ability to cope with different unexpected , even difficult situations.
EVS volunteers have the following roles:
- provide support in activities performed by the association,
- take part in developing and improving of the social services and projects that are promoted,
- implement their own ideas if they are according tho association'objectives
- Fluent in Italian, English, Spanish or Hungarian.
- More than 18 years of age.
- To have potential, to be sociable
- To be able to adapt to a new culture, a new environment and unexpected situations.
- To be willing to learn new things, a good comprehension of the issues that the association deals with .
- Not to be guided acoording to discriminatory principles.
Our organization has such human resources that, along with training volunteers, co-ordinating and monitoring of their activities, are also able to provide counseling for volunteers. Asociation'employees do all their best to help the new volunteers to integrate not only within the association, but within comunities, guiding them to certain activities of interest.
As an association, we have the opportunity to obtain accomodation at very good prices, and accomodation at families, with no need for payment.
Association has a complete and efficient Internal Procedure Manual .Volunteers are to be trained in what labor protection consists of: prevention of accidents, working with beneficiaries suffering from various catching etc.
Organisational culture of the association is characterised by transparency and safety, which ensures efficiency in solving any possible conflict that may occur.

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