🏢 About the local organisation
This workcamp comes from the IBO Italia’s partnership with the association “S,O,S Dislessia di Ferrara” .
S.O.S Dislessia
S.O.S. Dislessia was born in 2009 thanks to the will of some children’s mothers that have to face specific learning disorders (DSA) with the aim to sustain their own children inside and outside the school, to reach step by step the sustain that every family needs in province of Ferrara.
"S.O.S. Dislessia” is a volunteer association, non-profit, wich makes use of the voluntary and free benefits of the members in a decisive and prevalent way.
The association operates on the territory of Ferrara with the aim of social solidarity for:
1. to sustain families and children with specific learning disorders;
2. to promote information and awareness-raising actions on the D.S.A. addressed to the community;
3. to collaborate with U.S.P. and teachers in the school;
4. Facilitating the school-family dialogue
Sensing that early diagnosis is essential for the improvement of the difficulties associated with specific learning disorders, the consequence of which is the very self-esteem and fear of the judgement of others, the association decides to give life to the project , unique in Italy: "LA CASA DI MARY – UNA NUOVA IDEA DI SQUOLA”.
The casa di Mary is proposed as a fundamental objective the construction of an environment in which the child can discover its potential empirically through appropriate strategies and learning modalities.
The project involves the opening of a space that includes:
• A nursery and kindergarten, where you will work on prerequisites;
• A reintegration centre in the school, for elementary and secondary grades;
• A centre for help and support for families;
• A training centre for the SOS dyslexia courses;
• An IAA training centre (Animal assisted interventions): Pet Therapy; (There will be a unique and inclusive didactics, for these children, where the Pet Therapy will be used too).
• A center and experiential path aimed at those who choose parental education.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will mainly deal with the following activities:
1) Generic labour work at the new premises: painting walls, gardening and maintenance green areas, assembly and dismantling furniture, cleaning;
2) decorative and artistic activities
The work will take place from Monday to Friday from 9 am to 5 pm with lunch break.