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\n‘Life, imagination, imagination, time.
\nOrientation, responsibility for young people.’ This is the name of
\nthe campaigns for sponsorship initiated by the YOU program. It
\nincludes articles on the emotional health of young people, about
\nschool, or self-confidence. ‘You Are a Voice’ is a platform that
\ntries to support young people 18 or younger. It tries to do that by
\nlifting their spirits, but also assuring them that they are part of a
\ncommunity, which is more and more needed nowadays, when social
\ndistancing has exacerbated the sense of isolation that young people
\nhave always felt.
\n<\/p>\n
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\nWe were told about the project by
\nFlorentina Balos, networking coordinator and initiator of the
\nproject:
\n<\/p>\n
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\nIt is a project for young people in
\nRomania, dealing with adolescent depression, something that is not
\ntalked about enough, but also about professional orientation. It
\nincludes a call-center line that had not existed until now. It has
\nstarted working in September. We formed a great team of dedicated
\npeople, psychologists who council young people, and who were joined
\nby entrepreneurs and artists who hold during this period workshops,
\nall online, for vocational orientation, or emotional management, time
\nmanagement, because when you are in school, it helps to prioritize.<\/p>\n
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\nWe asked our interlocutor what is the
\ngreatest need that young people have, from the observations of the
\ncall-center, and we found out that it is socialization, reason for
\nwhich more and more young people are open to communication, both by
\nphone and online.
\n<\/p>\n
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\nWe train alongside professionals.
\nWe will have a plan that will be ready by November, when everything
\nwill be running smoothly. Right now, when it comes to young people,
\nall our attention is focused on fighting depression. This
\ncall-center, which has already offered counseling to around 1,200
\nyoung people who called the number or wrote on WhatsApp, contacted
\nthem, and they told us what they were going through and the areas in
\nwhich they could use our help.<\/p>\n
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\nBeyond the fact that, once on the
\npage, we find that we can invest in the future, by donating 2 Euro to
\nthe call-center, we find lots of personal stories, one more
\ninteresting than the next. We can find out how we can change the
\nfeeling that ‘a friend is better than you at what they do’, that
\n‘failure is the best thing that can happen to you’, being at the
\nbasis of everything that you succeed in life at. All these life
\nstories are meant to increase self-confidence and the ability to
\nunderstand life, with everything it brings, good or not-so-good.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\nFlorentina Balos invited us to visit
\nthem online:
\n<\/p>\n
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\nWe have the website you.com.ro, or
\nthe you.youth Facebook page. When young people access the Facebook
\npage or the website, they see directly a WhatsApp page, where they
\ncan contact us, and have a hotline they can call easily. Right now
\nwe don’t have a 24 hours a day schedule, but we hope to soon have
\nthat. Right now our schedule is Monday to Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM, and
\non Saturdays from 9:30 AM to 3 PM. We soon hope to go round the
\nclock.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\nAlso here you can find information
\nabout schools around the world, and how to select programs for
\nstudying abroad or domestically, and about all that defines a
\nteenager. Florentina Balos encourages young people to open their
\nhearts and minds to this form of socialization, with the promise that
\nresults will not be late in coming.<\/p>\n
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