BETTER FUTURE FOR SAHARAWI CHILDREN 1

The international volunteers will be helping the staff and numerous national volunteers work with Saharawi children (6-11 years old) with different kinds of disabilities (physical, cognitive, mental, sensory, emotional, developmental). This means that in most of the cases the kids are not self-sufficient. Daily activities of the international volunteers will include the following: feeding the children (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks), getting them dressed, changing the diapers, washing them, helping clean the school, cooking together. But also we need volunteers to come with a lot of energy to play, run and push a wheelchair for races or go to the beach with the children. The shifts during the day and night will be very flexible (to be arranged with the campleader and with local volunteers) so flexibility and adaptability are strongly required.English will be the working language of the workcamp but any language skills are welcome Along with English, the main spoken languages in the workcamp usually are: Italian (most of our volunteers are local), Spanish (Western Sahara used to be a Spanish colony before the Moroccan occupation and the leaders that come with the kids are fluent Spanish speakers) and, of course, Hassaniya, the arabic dialect the kids speak. Nevertheless, don t worry, you will manage to understand the kids, some of them speak fluent Italian and there will be a lot of interprets to help