In the week 26-31 October, on the worksite of Habitat Beiuş was a group of 11 students, accompanied by two teachers from the renowned Swiss College Le Rosey. The young students chose to participate in building a Habitat duplex type of voluntary programs that the school has in the curriculum.
Young students who learn at the renowned Swiss Le Rosey college come from the richest families around the world. However, they are working to carry out what they have proposed: to build a house with their hands for people less fortunate. The work that young people have made it in these days to Beiuş have designed a duplex dwellings, whose beneficiaries are a couple who grew up in an orphanage and a mother with two children. “I came to do something special to see how it builds a house, but mostly to do a charity act”, said one of the students at the College of Le Rosey who is on the worksite. Between Swiss educational institution and Habitat for Humanity Foundation Beiuş is a collaboration of six years. In all these years, many students chose as a social practice Habitat construction sites. Students are able to choose every year a voluntary activity in which to engage, in many humanitarian actions organized by their school. “For six years our students are presented with the Habitat site and do this because it is a great opportunity for students to know the importance of voluntary work. Although they are many theoretical courses on the subject, only young people here really understand what means the act of charity”, said Mary Bassiouni, a professor at the College of Le Rosey from Switzerland. She came first on Habitat Beiuş worksite in 2002, and was delighted by the experience she had with her students grup and in every year he urges colleagues to come with their students to Beiuş.
