📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Minister of education
💼 What the programme involves
The objective of this project is to integrate mostly children with down syndrome, so they can get basic skills useful for life as manners and also scholar support or artistic activities.
The center has capacity for 40 children with down syndrome but only half of them are attending classes because of a lack of transport.
Taking care of down syndrome people, organizing leisure activities, accompanying them in their daily activities, support the teachers in basic life skills such as teaching them manners, how to sit down, how to eat... Scholar support is given in a school where all kind of children attend classes and they help them to get integrated. In the project, they carry out workshops: - painting Sport Kitchen literacy Music excursions out of the school etc.
Developing in children the appreciation of the skills-based approach.
Just in front of the center, there is another center where this kind of children get support for psicological issues, kynesotherapy, ortophonic... Professionals are working on those issues.
The people working in this association are mostly parents who were interested in giving children in this situation a better life based in integration.
Caring, Organizing leisure activities of children with Down Syndrome: Helping the teachers and social workers out in teaching the children manners, how to it, how to behave in public etc. Scholar support, simple tasks, learning with games and songs... accompanying them in their daily tasks . They can participate in all the project activities described above. Also artistic activities, painting, drawing... with a mental development goal.
The center organizes also activities out of it in which the volunteers can also participate such as excursions or sports.
The normal timetable is from 8 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon, children have breakfast and lunch there so the volunteers can help out and also join them.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers can choose between living in a hosting family or sharing a flat with other volunteers
📍 About the location
The center host several children with trisomy 21 but is also a school for children that don”™t have this problem, so the volunteers will appreciate their everyday life habits and culture through practical and social involvement. They will get in touch with national volunteers and social workers in the center so that they can get involved in the community, not only inside the center but also outside, when they finish their work.
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