ICYE-STEP / ENVOL: MEDICO-PSYCHO PEDAGOGIC INST 17

Medico-psycho pedagogic institute l'ENVOL (L'Institut Médico-Psycho-Pédagogique l'ENVOL) is in line with educational programme and pre-professional training of mentally handicapped children of Togo initiated by the Consortium of churches of Togo in order to find answer to the problem of socio-educative and professional and integration of people who are mentally handicapped. Main Activities The project offers several and varied activities to volunteers who provide much support to teachers who, owing to a lot of tasks, work 8 hours during 5 days; from Monday to Friday. Volunteer tasks From Monday to Friday, the learners of institute divided into groups attend the courses in plastic art, coloring, painting, graphics, self-sufficiency and in do-it- yourself. Here, the volunteers have to help the educators at each level to make practice and assimilate the teachings delivered, even replace them in the subgroups for the purpose of keeping the handicapped (working). At specialized activities such as psychomotricity, the volunteer supports the educators in the subjects such as lateral lesson, spatial structure, body image, temporal orientation... The project uses French or speaks French during school section. It would be much appreciated or a plus for volunteers who speaks French.