Messzelátó Egyesület

Guri and Milla our two new EVS volunteers started their project! You can read about their programs, workshops here:
http://messzelato.tumblr.com/

La Citta Dell'Utopia in Rome

As a part of our Crisscrossing project, Milla and Guri went to Rome this weekend to participate in an event together with our partners from Italy and Spain. Their mission was to give a report on the experiences from the Hungarian side of the project, where we did urban gardening in Budapest's 8. district and visited an organic farm in Gödöllö. The event took place in La Citta Dell'Utopia, an old house in Rome occupied by SCI Italia, one of the Crisscrossing partners.

A planned workshop with outdoor baking and herb gardening was unfortunately cancelled due to bad weather. We still got to speak with people from a network in Rome which specialises in do-it-yourself techniques and we plan to have contact with them regarding future workshops in Budapest!

On Sunday afternoon, the organisations that were part of the Crisscrossing project set up info stands in the garden of La Citta Dell'Utopia for people who attended "La Campagna va in citta" ("Countryside in the city"). Representratives from local consumer networks and advocates of rural techniques then participated in a round table discussing how rural techniques can make urban living more sustainable. After this, Messzelátó and the other organisations shared their experiences from the Crisscrossing project.

Our EVS volunteers Milla and Guri are going to Rome this weekend to participate in the final Crisscrossing event! They will present our experiences from the Crisscrossing event in Budapest and meet with our partners from Italy and Spain.

Dear All,

on this week we were on the anual NGO fair ogranised in CEU (Central European University)

I am posting also here the volunteering opportunities

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES see below

Dear Teachers and Enviromental Educators,

Here you can download a lessonplan in ENGLISH, ROMANIAN, SLOVAKIAN how to realize a Land Art lesson. It could fit in several places in the curriculum in the school year.

We used this to the International Land Art Contest in this year in the region of Central-Eastern Europe with collaboration with www.350.org.

Dear Teachers and Environmental Educators,

350.org International Climate Civic Movement and Messzelato Association announce a land art and climate protection contest for children between the age of 11-18 within non-formal youth groups or school classes in the region of Central and Eastern Europe.

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Bumping up the dirt track to Kathleen and Erik’s house in Püspökszentlászló in the pitch black, we might not have been able to see anything of the Mecsek hills, but we could feel them towering above us in the dark. The morning revealed just how beautiful the area was. Nestled at the foot of the highest Zengő peak, the house is surrounded by the same forest that covers the nearby hill slopes, which at the time of our visit was all the more stunning for the mid-November autumn colour.

After a 3 hour journey from Budapest, our first priority on arriving in Sopron was finding the hotel to shed the rucksacks that seemed to have become twice as heavy since the outset. Possibly due the sudden heat that hit us on exiting the train, something that we had been spared in the moving train with its windows (and sometimes doors) wide open.