DOWN TOWN KIDS II

Activating kids in the city camp and providing them with cross-cultural learning experience. Volunteers will do it using various informal methods of teaching as well as working in small group techniques. The activities to be held by a team of volunteers may include the following: playing the games and performing music that are popular in the countries the volunteers represent; training kids to perform pieces of amateur drama; preparing festivals; providing intellectual and sport games as well as discussions and excursions round the places of interest; organizing actions for peace and nature protection; leading and supporting kids in their work on the team projects within the topics related to the main theme of the summer. Volunteers are responsible for the day activities in the camp. The work can be demanding, involving longer hours on some days, requiring high level of commitment and responsibility. You will stay with campers from 10:00 to 17:00 and spend another hour to prepare next day activities and feedback. Working days are from Monday to Friday; Sundays are days off. In addition there will be one more extra day-off every week depending on the schedule. Before the camp activities start there will be 3-day training about camp methodology and preparation. There are 8 camp shifts during this summer project which are of different length (5-10 days) and for different ages (10-16 years old). All of them are day camps that are held in Tallinn. The working language is English. An average number of volunteers working with schoolchildren in one camp is 2-8 (both long-term volunteers for the whole summer and short-term volunteers who may join for 1, 2 or 3 weeks); they work in pairs with one of the camp groups of 10-12 teens and change the groups every 2-3 days. An average number of kids/teens participants in one camp shift is 40 who are split into four camp groups; the local participants are mainly youngsters from a Russian-speaking minority group of Tallinn. NB! Special feature of this summer: a volunteer is welcome to choose participating in the whole camp program of one shift or joining the camp any Friday just for one or two weeks within the proposed camp dates.