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BonaFides

Stowarzyszenie Aktywności Obywatelskiej Bona Fides i organizacja Association for Environmental Protection, Tourism and Education z Rumuni poszukują wolontariuszy na projekt PLAY (Promoting Lifetime Activities for Youth)

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Start of stage: 04. 04. 2014
The duration stage: 10 months
Place: Arad, Romania

The project refers to the carrying out of activities with children suffering from autism and Down syndrome. The actions proposed in this project will be carried out with the support of associations which have as their main field of activity the work with this young categories with reduced opportunities.
Being young, we'd like more special as volunteers to be motivated to carry out specific activities for young people. Within the limits of the possibilities would be good as volunteers to take over 25 years, because they have a different perceptive over reality and some life experience. There is, however, no problem if we get younger volunteers, just have to be motivated for this type of activity.
For young people suffering from Down's syndrome and autistic are more special, we provide trainings, in which specialists-doctors, psychologists, volunteers will prepare for all project activities.

Summary of the project

PLAY – Promoting Lifetime Activities for Youth is a Youth in Action Project which deals with children with disabilities, more precisely with children or teenagers who suffer from autism or Down syndrome. The project is a successful partnership between Societatea pentru Educatie si Cultura Nadlac (The Society for Education and Culture), the organisation receiving the EVS volunteers, on the one hand, and European Intercultural Forum from Germany, Youth Network for Development and Innovation from Jordan and Bona Fides Association from Poland, on the other hand. Each of these organizations select and send 3 EVS volunteer.
The 9 EVS volunteers are involved in non-formal activities in Arad, Romania for 10 months. The main activities include: facilitating creative workshops for children or teenagers with autism or Down syndrome, facilitating the therapy of autistic children/ teenagers with puppies and ponies, developing the website of the project, organizing an event of launching balloons to increase awareness of the local community with respect to mental disabilities.
The main objectives are to develop and exercise competencies useful in getting a job or in entrepreneurship for the EVS volunteers and to develop speech skills, language acquisition, group interaction, creativity, expression of emotions and acquisition of social non-aggressive behavior in the case of children or teenagers with autism of Down syndrome using non-formal instruments.

Role and tasks voluntary
1) Creative activities for children / young people with Down syndrome
Objectives: develop speech skills, improve language acquisition, develop group interaction skills.
Volunteers will help organize the staff and associates INTEGRA Down Art workshops such as: paintings, drawings. In addition, workshops will be organized puppet theater using actors Knowing their beneficial effect on children with Down syndrome. Volunteers will perform songs and workshops, music and color contributing to the welfare of children / young beneficiaries.
They will organize games like Twister, but adapted for children with Down syndrome. (Volunteers will carry two large cardboard blocks. On one of the cubes will be glued different colors and on different moves other eg jump, make by hand, take in arms game coordinator etc. Additionally I will use color square at Twister. activities children will be doing the color indicated by the cube. cubes will be thrown by children and so they can learn what action and what color.)
Besides the actual activities, volunteers will meet and the following administrative tasks:
It will make two groups of children / young people that includes 4 people / group.

2. Creative activities for children / young people with autism
Objectives: the creative abilities development and communication , improved group interaction .
Volunteers will help organize the staff and associates INTEGRA Down Art workshops such as : paintings, drawings , postcards , kites , napkins , gift boxes, etc. mush . In addition volunteers would perform activities such as dance sessions or games like obstacle course in which to put objects like toys , blocks , puzzles for the ultimate baby to win a prize or guessing which object in the child is told to close their eyes and give an object and is encouraged to guess what the object is.
It will make two groups of children / young people include about 5 people / group .

3 ) Therapy of children with autism by interacting with companion animals ( dogs and ponies )
Objectives: To increase the capacity of expressing feelings , develop social behaviors acquisition of non - aggressive .
Volunteers will help children with autism interacting with targeted animals ( puppies from the animal shelter belonging to Arad Local Council and pony Pony Club center ) . Their children will be asked to caress , to play, to ( be ) walk with pets .
It will make two groups of children / young people include about 5 people / group .

4. Development PLAY Project Website
Objectives:
In Arad public information on the situation of children / youth with autism / Down syndrome , raising the population from children / young people with mental disabilities , promoting volunteering in favor of this category of children / young people, raising funds for the realization of projects the benefit of children / young people with autism / Down syndrome , facilitating the integration of these young people / children in the local community .
Volunteers will be asked to undertake the following activities :
a) Making 4 movies information / awareness of people and posting them on the project website ;
b) Writing a minimum of 15 items in order to inform , raise awareness of Arad ;
c) Achieving 5 reportages ;
d) Getting donations of about 1,500 euros ( contributions material and / or financial ) that will be used in the follow -up actions

5. Making a balloon launch event for those who suffer from autism / Down syndrome
Objectives: information and awareness of local community members about children / young people with autism / Down syndrome
Volunteers will organize an event in which we will launch colorful helium balloons for children / youth with autism or Down syndrome. Those who launch balloons are just children / young people involved.

6. Personal Initiative EVS volunteers
Objectives: To develop entrepreneurship and initiative EVS volunteers, accelerate the learning process.
Volunteers will be encouraged to come up with ideas complementary to those offered by developers. They will be guided by support staff throughout the development of this initiative. They will be encouraged to organize a public event.