🇷🇴 ESC Volunteering in Romania 🌱 Build a Therapeutic Garden Inside a Women's Detention Center in Craiova 🌿

ASOCIATIA NATIONALA DE SPRIJINIRE A TINERETULUI ECOLOGIST DIN ROMANIA

Craiova, Romania

⭐️ Activity Title

Go4Green4

🔷 Activity Details

Description

Go4Green4 is a 59-day European Solidarity Corps short-term team project taking place in Craiova, Romania, from 22 June to 20 August 2026. It brings together 16 volunteers, 8 local and 8 international, to create a sustainable and therapeutic urban garden inside the Women’s Detention Center in Craiova. The project aims to combine environmental action, inclusion, and wellbeing by using gardening as a practical and therapeutic activity for young people in a detention setting and raise awareness in the local community about sustainability, inclusion, and the positive role of green spaces in rehabilitation and social change. The project will engage volunteers in a range of environmental activities, including gardening, river cleaning, and forest waste collection, with the aim of promoting sustainability, ecological responsibility, and active community involvement.

Accommodation, food and transport arrangements

Volunteers will be accommodated in rented apartments with shared bathroom and kitchen, max 2 in room divided by gender. The location will be equipped for basic needs, kitchen essentials, laundry facilities, wifi, please note that we cannot accommodate volunteers who prioritize high living standards. Volunteers will receive a food allowance of 6 euros/day and 4 euros/day as pocket money in lei Romanian national currency. A local public transport pass will be provided for each volunteer.

Participant profile

*Aged 18–30 year old *Ability to buy the travel tickets (at arrival reimbursement will be made) *Fluent at a medium level in English *Motivated to take part in the project and showing involvement during the selection process *Able to assume the tasks and rules of the project

🔑 Key Information

Activity dates

From 22/06/2026 to 20/08/2026

Activity location

Eugeniu Carada Nr.10, Craiova, Romania

Activity type

Volunteering teams

Looking for participants from

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Ukraine