Babilon Travel NGO is partner and sending organisation in a new Erasmus+ project, Let’s Go Eco Tourism, that will have two main activities (youth exchanges): one in Poland, between 16-25 September, 2016 and one in Slovakia, between 1-8 December, 2016.
The first youth exchange will take place in Murzasichle/Poland and will gather 30 participants from 5 EU countries: Romania, Poland, Slovakia, Germany and Lithuania. Continue reading…
Babilon Travel NGO is participating for the second time to an international event that started in 2014 in the city of Cluj-Napoca.
The event brings together more than 250 participants from more than 35 countries from all over the world.
It will take place in Bucharest between July 5-11. Continue reading…
The project Value the Difference, financed by the European Union, through the Erasmus+ programme and coordinated by Babilon Travel NGO, has finished the two main activities:
In these two main activities, there were directly involved, as participants, 19 blind and visually impaired young people. Through the activities held at the Special High School for Visually Impaired Cluj-Napoca, the project also involved many blind/visually impaired students and teachers of this institution.
The porpose of this article is to review how the project Value the Difference and its main activities were present in the national and international media. Continue reading…
Babilon Travel NGO has launched the second part of the project Value the Difference, a multi-activity project designed to promote integration (both locally and internationally) of visually impaired young people through sport and outdoor activities tailored to their needs. Continue reading…
Babilon Travel NGO, at the end of 2015, in numbers:
• 8 international projects;
• 1 local project;
• 9 countries directly involved;
• 22 young people and youth workers, visually and non-visually impaired, sent to 6 European countries on training and youth exchanges;
• 82 visually impaired/blind young people guided through the historical center of the treasure city of Cluj;
• 18 people, from 4 EU countries brought to Cluj for training;
• 8 times present on local and national tv channels (about 90 minutes on air);
• 4 times present on local radio stations;
• … articles on- and off-line
• 8 volunteers.
At the end of November 2015, Babilon Travel NGO finalized the local project Terra Cognita: The Historical Center of Cluj-Napoca, Made Accessible for Blind Young People, project financed by the Municipality of Cluj-Napoca.
We present here pictures taken during the main activities of the project, held in the historical center of the city of Cluj and at the Special High School for Visually Impaired Cluj-Napoca. See the intire album