Education for 50 disadvantaged Romanian children

In my hands I have my plane ticket that will take me home after a few months spent volunteering in Panciu.
We often experience this image at Pinocchio Center where for 16 years many volunteers from different countries have been coming for a few weeks or for several months.
And while Andres, a Peruvian volunteer in Panciu for 6 months, is preparing to return to Lima,
on the other side of the Earth, Alexandru, is returning back to Romania after 6 months of volunteering in Lima.
Parallel lives, destinies that intersect in a great dream of helping others.

Each volunteer makes his or her piece, gives his or her special help, adds a small piece of a big puzzle.
I arrived in Panciu at the end of January. All around was white, snow-white. I approached the Pinocchio Center and I was struck by the colorful murals designed by Andres who is part of a group of artists of muralists in Peru. The drawings are more beautiful in reality than in photography, they are brilliant and give joy just by looking at them.

There are other volunteers at the Pinocchio Center in this period: Fanni and Maxime, Germany and France.
It almost seems to me like we are soccer teams of the world championships. But in Panciu the team is one with many players from all over the world. And it's very beautiful.
In the kitchen the menu is varied: from French crepes to Italian pasta, from rice to Romanian tocitura.

The children in the Center Pinocchio are used to the presence of volunteers who speak Romanian with strange accents and with gross grammatical errors. Moreover, Romanian has many rules
and it takes a few months before we can speak this language. The children laugh at the mistakes we make when we talk and we laugh with them. I think it's important to learn to laugh at mistakes.

Children who have more difficulties at school, the last of the class, are finally proud to be able to teach us
how words should be pronounced. It is good for anyone to be able to get out of the classroom and be in the role of a teacher sometimes. Children learn that there are many languages in the world, many different peoples. You can travel with the mind. Away from problems, privations and injustices.
I wonder if one day even these children will be volunteers in Panciu or in any country in the world.

Anyway, for everybody I wish a good jorney!