This time, we had very special guests: „Reach the Rainbow“ volunteers came to join us for the music festival at Yanderov (6-7 July 2007). Challenging tasks awaited us: drafting beer, cleaning up the festival field, etc.!
Despite the noise, despite our mutant tent and recurrent chaotic moments, it turned out to be a great opportunity for worlds to meet. Czech volunteers met volunteers from abroad (and vice versa). Portuguese and other ways of drafting beer met the Czech „foam it up“ way of drafting. Local NGO leaders met all of us „free-floating“ volunteers. Generations mixed up. Languages mixed up.
The purpose of the weekend - to open doors between worlds - was met as well as ever. Forming a mixed group of Czech and foreign volunteers would not do the trick by itself – crucial is the opportunity to work on something useful together. Equally important is to meet people who do voluntary work over the long term on a local level – and for them, having foreign visitors can be a very invigorating experience! And what better way to visit is there than to give a helping hand…
We may not have been as fast, confident and refined behind the beer counter as the usual service. Sometimes, the queues got a little longer. But the word about „the exotic foreigners“, these „Rainbow people“ who like to chat, went around with lightning speed. and tried their best at practicing international understanding.
After Yanderov experience, the „Rainbow people“ reached some other Tamjdem weekends!
See more about TAMJDEM
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Stepan Zelinger
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