SAHARAWI CHILDREN AMONG US

The international volunteers will help the families and the staff of national volunteers to work with Saharawi children (6 -11 years old) with different kinds of disabilities (physical, cognitive, mental, sensory, emotional, developmental). Sometimes it means that the kids are not self-sufficient. Daily activities of the international volunteers will include the following: educational and animation activities with Italian and Saharawi children aimed to facilitate inclusion and group cohesion, feeding the children (lunch, snacks), cleaning and organize Villaggio Arcobaleno centre, organizing outdoor activities with the children, cooking together, restoring the building and gardening. But also we need volunteers to come with a lot of energy to play, run and go to the beach with the children. During the morning the volunteers will make activities with the children and in the afternoon they will make some renovation, manual and creative works in the Villaggio Arcobaleno centre.English will be the working language of the workcamp but any language skills are welcome Along with English, the main spoken languages in the workcamp usually are: Italian (most of our volunteers are local), Spanish (Western Sahara used to be a Spanish colony before the Moroccan occupation and the leaders that come with the kids are fluent Spanish speakers) and, of course, Hassaniya, the arabic dialect the kids speak. Nevertheless, don t worry, you will manage to understand the kids, some of them speak fluent Italian and there will be a lot of interprets to help