School 14 for Children with visual impairments (ESC)

School 14 educates pupils with various degrees of visual impairments. The school is not merely an educational institution, but a place ensuring 11 years of safe, secure, interesting, and productive life for blind children.

VOLUNTEER TASKS
The volunteer will spend their service in the school, close to the city center of Yerevan. He/she will be involved in all programs and will be encouraged to propose his/her ideas and suggestions. The volunteer will live and work with the local community. Apart from working with the children, he/she will have the possibility to
spend his/her free time with them and to learn a lot about Armenia. The volunteer will be involved in discussions and
seminars about the future of the children and will be able to share his/her opinion on the situation with parents and staff of hospitals. With the help of the volunteers, they will be able to organize more workshops, in which the children according to their health can draw, sculpt, sing and dance. The volunteer will help children participate in all arts workshops and to support the staff in organizing these activities (painting, sculpturing, handicrafts, etc.) • He/she will establish social contact with individual children and their parents through chats and games. • He/she will present his/her country and culture to the children, organize dancing and singing evenings, teaching songs, etc. • Create
workshops on different interesting topics • Excursions and outdoor activities • The volunteer will have the task of help
organizing exhibitions of the artworks of the children in different topics • Organizing sport competition activities in the territory • Organization of thematic evenings and meetings • Searching for international partners and donors in different countries, making posters and booklets about the school in English • Assist teachers in elementary foreign language teaching Support and training will be provided by the staff of the organization and by the community. The volunteer will be invited to social events and will be supported in learning and practicing the basic Armenian language,
according to his/her wish. The volunteer will play a big role in the Host organization and will be actively involved in the organizational group of preparing different events and free time activities. The volunteer will receive language training 2 times per week during the first half of their ESC Service is provided by a language teacher in a special language center. Therefore the main acquisitions of the volunteer throughout the project would be: 1. Better understanding of the work with children, especially those with fewer opportunities 2. Better self-organization and a sense of initiative 3. Improved ability to work in an organization using a foreign language (English and then Armenian) 4. Language skills in
Armenian language.