📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Egyesek Youth Association organise this summer camp together with Terre des hommes (Tdh), a leading Swiss child relief organisation, who has the mission to help children in need and it ds this in two main areas, health and child protection. Since April 2022, Tdh, in cooperation with the Budapest Municipality and Budapest Methodological Centre of Social Policy and Its Institutions (BMSZKI), has been assisting Ukrainian refugees in the municipality s accommodations. They set up child-friendly corners and provide daily support to families, help with schooling, obtaining the right papers, child-rearing counselling and psycho-social support.
💼 What the programme involves
The aim of the volunteering is to create and hold meaningful summer programmes for the children living the shelters, "laugh, run and move". Volunteers will organise and animate games and sports activities for the children, which will serve a wide range of psychosocial needs and skills such as joy, affection, trust, empathy, respect, contact. Volunteers may organise sessions together with the parents to bring the shared experience of play or teach English for the kids and their families. Activities will be from 9 am till 5.30 pm or afternoon shift with parents.
🏠 Accommodation on site
All volunteers will be accommodated in a hostel in Budapest and we will provide a 2 weeks public transportation ticket. Lunch will be provided in the shelters, breakfast and dinner is self-organised, but covered by the project cost.
📍 About the location
The shelters are based in Budapest, what volunteers will be able to access easily by public transportation. The evenings and the second weekend will be free to explore the city centre of Budapest.