Ungheni Community Project

Varnita/Bender Community Project

“Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things, but look what they can do when they stick together” (Unknown)

Let’s see what we can do all together!!!

Healthy Lifestyle

This is the idea of a healthy lifestyle of the students from Ungheni!

And this is what a healthy lifestyle is for some of our citizens…

4H (Happy Human in a Happy Home)

The human being is the part of Nature that cannot exist without it. Since Nature takes care of us, we should take care of Nature. We do not live in the world we would want to or in the world we could live just because of our addictions (like smoking) and the bad habit of throwing trash on the ground.

Goal: To persuade people to give up their addictions (smoking) and bad habits (throwing trash on the ground) which affect their health, represent sources of pollution, negatively influence the environment and  question the future of our planet.

Partners:

• Varnita City Hall
• Youth Association “Șansa”, Varnita
• “Alexandru cel Bun” Lyceum
• Local Authorities

Buy, Use, Recycle IT

Goal: To promote the idea of rational consumption of natural resources via concrete examples, informative and demonstrative actions of reuse and recycling of objects from everyday life.

Partners:

• Ungheni City Hall
• American Corner
• Ungheni Regional Youth Resource Center
• Local authorities.

Project Evaluation

After writing the project we discussed about it with our friends. We also asked for the opinion of a Peace Corp Volunteer and a FLEX alumna. We considered their suggestions and moved on to the next stage. 

Project Elaboration

Youth Civic Engagement Training

Climbing

Art-Labyrinth

Recycling

Recycling is a process to change materials (waste) into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from landfilling) by reducing the need for “conventional” waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to plastic production. Recycling is a key component of modern waste reduction and is the third component of the “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” waste hierarchy.

Recyclable materials include many kinds of glass, paper, metal, plastic, textiles, and electronics. Although similar in effect, the composting or other reuse of biodegradable waste—such as food or garden waste—is not typically considered recycling. Materials to be recycled are either brought to a collection center or picked up from the curbside, then sorted, cleaned, and reprocessed into new materials bound for manufacturing.

This is even a bigger problem in the Republic of Moldova since the waste management in our country is very bad. In the majority of our rural communities there are practically no organized services for the management of rubbish, the big amount of garbage stored on the ground being a source of water and land pollution. Consequently, many useful recycling materials are lost. Unfortunately, people are not well-informed about what recycling is and which are the benefits of recycling materials, this making the problem of irrational consumption even worse.

Food for Thought:

The average person generates 4.5 pounds of trash every day – about 1.5 tons of solid waste per year. Although the EPA estimates that 75 percent of solid waste is recyclable, only about 30 percent is actually recycled.