#Saniting, the power of the communities on your way back to emotional balance

This article is meant to emphasize how the power of the communities can help people in need re-establish their emotional balance and how volunteering projects can be catalysts for this cause. Our volunteering project, #Saniting, has the role to raise awareness and funds in order to build an emotional balance support center in Iasi, Romania. The project has presented until now the real stories of 16 people who have faced hard times and changes in their lives and managed to re-establish their emotional balance. These stories underlined the idea that people are social beings who need the company of others, friends or specialists in mental health, especially in times of sorrow. The main characters of these stories opened up their hearts, letting me and my colleague, Oana Nechifor, videotape them and taking pictures of them, as they told us what they have been through and how they have managed to continue with their lives. Many of them started Non-Governmental Organizations, helping other people to face similar situations. Ten of these stories were published in a book, many of the main characters were present at the release event and they immediately got to like and know each other, so a Facebook group was created and they have kept in touch since there. The project had the honor to receive the Award Social Project of the Year 2018 during a Volunteer Gala organized in Iasi, Romania.