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<h1>YouthBank Varniţa: Spreading Positive Changes</h1>
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<p class="summary">As Edith Wharton said: "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." Millions of people around the world do not expect help to come from elsewhere and choose to help themselves. Millions of people worldwide take the initiative and engage in community service. Millions of people worldwide volunteer. They are the ones that reflect devotion, selflessness, patience and simply, love for the fellows.</p>
<p class="byline">ByŢurcan Otilia, Urîta Cristina and Braga Loridana, YouthBank Varniţa, Republic of Moldova </p>
<p>YouthBank Varniţa is an organization that encourages youth activities carried out on a voluntary basis. We are the ones who will shape the future. This program encourages and supports our initiatives, young people to get involved in the social life of the community in which we live, to achieve something in its favor. As members of YouthBank Varniţa within a year we realized that whatever the motivation is, our involvement is valuable. Also, we learned that any good deed does not necessarily followed by reward. It is enough to see the smiles of satisfaction on the face of people to understand that you have not spent the day in vain. A volunteer should feel the need to help others and be generous in heart without asking anything in return.</p><p>We do not know for sure what others see in our volunteering, but once we started, we felt the difference. We developed social skills, we learned to have patience, to work in teams, to assume responsibilities. Youth Bank strengthened self-confidence, gave us a sense of pride that we can help the community. Also, we gained experience and we are sure that in future we will improve skills, making new generations role models.</p><p>The first activity that we organized with YouthBank Varniţa team was theater for children from kindergarten. The event took place on 23 May 2014 in the village Varniţa, the security zone of Republic of Moldova. Together with other members of the YouthBank we managed to run in the offspring of childhood, presenting the play "Cinderella". Of course for the work done we were awarded with diplomas and sweets. We had the chance to see a passionate audience during the play very well done. Little children received a car of positive emotions and we were extremely satisfied that we were people that I drew smiles on their face.</p><p>YouthBank Varniţa is a way for us to discover ourselves, to find strengths and weaknesses. We decided to shape the future, to be the change we want to see in the world!</p>
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