ICYE STEPS / EDUCANDARIO SAO JOA BATISTA 2017

Special centre that provides education for disabled children and adolescents (physical and mental) in Porto Alegre. The project wants to provide support for disabled children and promote the ideas of independent life philosophy and social approach to disability. Some children sleep in the centre during the week. Different activities such us music, art, simple sports, reading history, among others. Volunteer will assist the children during the recreation and the games time and he/she will help in workshops such as music (piano and guitar), arts, alternative communication workshops, simple language classes, special movement activities (in the swimming pool), recycling paper and handcraft activities, according to volunteer's skills. Each child needs individual attention and care: the volunteer will be asked to help individually a child to learn, paint, read, write or play a musical instrument, to do a game to develop the physical coordination, etc.