🏢 About the local organisation
A camp for Russian kids will take place in the resort house (about 20 km away from the city of Cheboksary, the capital of the Chuvash republic). Foreign volunteers will work together with Russian volunteers as counselors and organize cultural and educational activities for the participants (local school kids aged 7 - 17).
The idea of the camps is as follows:
'e intercultural exchange
'e educating kids interested in other cultures, tolerant to other nationalities, religions, races
'e learning foreign languages
'e educating kids to be leaders with active life position
💼 What the programme involves
Work: The volunteers will work as counselors (along with Russian volunteers) for 7-17 year old children and participate in the daily life of the workcamp there will be different cultural, linguistic activities, sports and games. We would like every foreign participant to make a presentation of his/her native country and culture.
You can prepare different ways of showing and sharing your culture and knowledge with others. Also the volunteers will get the opportunity to organize their own workshops for kids using their skills and knowledge.
You can realize the unique opportunity to teach Russian and Chuvash kids English, French, German, any other language. The groups for teaching will not be large, from 5 to 12 participants. It will depend on the volunteers if they wish to organize the workshops themselves or with the help of Russian counselors. There will also be workshop for learning Russian, where Russian kids will teach our foreign participants Russian, Chuvash and introduce them to Russian and Chuvash culture. You will get experience in organizing Russian kids for preparing presentations on certain themes, like Recycling, United Nations, European community, Africa, religions, right to work, inventions, Flight to Mars, movies, water, war, dreams (you are welcome to bring with you some material for such presentations). It will depend on the volunteers if they wish to organize the workshops themselves or with the help of Russian counselors. There will also be workshop for learning Russian, where Russian kids will teach our foreign participants Russian, Chuvash and introduce them to Russian and Chuvash culture. You will get experience in organizing Russian kids for preparing presentations on certain themes, like Recycling, United Nations, European community, Africa, religions, right to work, inventions, Flight to Mars, movies, water, war, dreams (you are welcome to bring with you some material for such presentations). Most of the time volunteers will be playing games and sports with children, learning different songs and dances with them and just having fun Š!
Study part: you'll get skills and knowledge in cross-cultural education and understanding.. You'll learn to speak Russian, know about the unique Russian and Chuvash culture, language and history of Chuvash people (local ethnic group - of which Cheboksary is the capital - of mixture of finnish-hungarian tribes with turkish tribes. The Chuvash language is in Turkish family of languages); you'll be able to share your knowledge in speaking different languages with the youth from Chuvashia and other regions of Russia.
🏠 Accommodation on site
in the resort for kids 'eoeLesnaya skazka'e (Forest fairy-tale), in brick house; counselors live together in male, female, mixed rooms. Showers are available all the time. No sleeping bags are needed, food is provided in the local camp cafeteria.
📍 About the location
the workcamp is situated in Russia, Cheboksary. The volunteers will need to fly (or arrive with any other transport: train, bus etc.) to Moscow and take a train from Moscow to Cheboksary. In Cheboksary the volunteers will be met by the Russian volunteers and move altogether to the workcamp.
excursion in the English and Russian languages to historical cultural places of interest of Cheboksary, winter outdoor games, contests, shows, concerts, parties and other entertaining activities concerning other countries