Youth camp - 5-12th of August 2006 - Algyógy/Geoagiu

“Ecology and Christian responsibility” was the theme of the youth camp in the year 2006 organised by the Foundation Studium Academicum in cooperation with SGP.

Rev. Szatmári Gergely Elemér vice president of the Foundation, Rev. Zsigmond Attila and Kállay Tünde teacher as the leaders of the camp asked famous persons from the surroundings to hold lectures: Schreiber István teacher - local historiographer, Gáspár Bara Réka journalist, Fülöp Júlia president of EMKE from Szászváros, Orosz Réka  representative of the IKE-YMCA, and Sipos Szabolcs local reformed reverend. 

The protection of the nature is a command of our God. To take this command seriously, form our future’s point of view, it is an existential question. This was the topics of the bible studies where everyone could explain its observations or experiences regarding to the given question. 

We experienced in several places in the region of Hunyad the negligence of the environment, where the socialistically industrialization, the forced development of the steel industry had resulted innumerable destructions of the environment. The present generation have to confront with the negative effects of it.

The 18 young participants could experience corporeal the enormous damages in the towns of Vajdahunyad, Szászváros, Déva and the surrounding, which were caused in the last decades, and they could recognize how immense financial oblation it needs the recuperation of it. 

In beside of the processing the central theme of the youth camp it was possible to get knows the historical, natural and cultural fame of the countryside. We could also get know the thousand years old past of region under the guiding of historical experts.

The four Dutch younger (Marga van den Brink, Jannemieke Geluk, Geerlof de Jong, Mieke de Pater) - leaded by Jan A. Schippers - and the local youth have discussed many times late in the night the typical questions of their generation.

The camp place, which hasn’t always satisfied every needed comfort, could not hinder our merriness, and the chance to return home enriched with many experience and interesting observation.