LANGUAGE+

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Russian Federation Education Children Education Children +1 Fixed dates

About the project

LANGUAGE+

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The language school Language Plus has been organizing international language camps for five years. In their camps Russian and foreign volunteers collaborate to organize cultural, educational and sport activities for local children and children from nearby regions aged 7-17. The mission is to provide every child with a range of opportunities which help him/her to grow and improve themselves as a person.

💼 What the programme involves

• Teaching foreign languages to the participants (in the form of playing games, singing songs or improving their language skills through discussions). These include the volunteer’s native language, and English if their English level is B2 or higher and they feel comfortable with teaching two languages. • Giving a presentation of the volunteer’s native country with the aim to teach the children its history, culture, customs and traditions. • Organizing and together with children taking part in some sport activities, strategic games, shows and handcrafts. • Making intercultural and educational workshops of different kinds: handcrafts, sports, national games, music, dance, photography, etc. • PLEASE NOTE! We would be really happy to have a special person, responsible for taking photos and making some short videos about the camp life so that we could better present this project in mass media, in order to promote volunteering in our region.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Camps DGV 03 and DGV 04 are separate projects (camps) which you can choose to participate depending on your time available, but we would also be glad to accept you for 2 camps in a row if you want and provide free accommodation between the projects. Both camps will take place in the children’s resort White stones (Belye Kamni) about 60 km away from Cheboksary. Between camps the volunteers will be provided with free accommodation in the city Cheboksary. Volunteers will stay in the resort center White stones (Belye Kamni) in a brick house. The counselors live together in male and female rooms for 2-4 people. Showers are available all the time. No sleeping bags are needed. Food is provided in the local camp cafeteria (5 meals a day).

📍 About the location

🎒 Leisure activities

Known as the “pearl on the Volga”, Cheboksary is the capital of the Chuvash Republic, home to the Finno-Ugric Chuvash people. The city is located on the banks of the Volga River and has some beautiful board walks and beaches along the river. Cheboksary also has a man-made bay, which is an extremely popular place for the locals and a must-see when visiting. The city possesses excellent cultural opportunities. There is an Opera-Ballet Theatre, a Philharmonic Orchestra, and numerous other theatres (showing productions in both Russian and Chuvash languages) along with several museums, most importantly the only Russian Beer Museum. In Cheboksary there are 2 beer manufacturers which is extremely unique in Russia, so be sure to have a taste. If you go to the bay then you won’t be able to miss the Monument of Mother who has her arms outstretched protecting the people of the region. In 2002 Cheboksary was awarded the ‘Best Run’ city in Russia by Putin, and it has continued with this image of cleanliness and efficiency.

⚠️ Requirements

A significant experience in education or animation, as a sufficient english level, is required for this project.
An interview will take place to check the volunteer's skills and motivations.

🤝 Meeting point

It is easy enough to get to Cheboksary from Moscow, both by plane and by train which operate daily. Being on the Volga, though, means that it is a popular stop for riverboat cruises, and this is by far the most beautiful way to arrive in the city.

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