In February our
centre signed agreements with volunteers. According to an agreement about collaboration with
Kommunarskiy social work agency the first group of volunteers-animators started
to work with young people with special needs. Volunteers are the first-year
students of the specialty «International tourism» Institute of Management and
Law (Zaporizhzhya National Technical University). Work is conducted on Tuesdays and Fridays,
students organize games, communicate with young disable people, prepare
holidays. Volunteers provide the services with enthusiasm, show high level of
interest and initiate many activities (like celebration of birthdays,
collection of humanitarian help). The
feedback of employees of the social work agency about their activity is very
positive.
Specialists from the centre conducted a lecture about the
features of people with the special necessities (diagnoses, level of
development). Every Thursday volunteers meet with the coordinator of the
project "Volunteers” to have a feed-back, planning of further activities. Also
the volunteers bring over to work with children new volunteers.
Five students of the Zaporizhzhya National University also
decided to participate in a volunteer movement.
Their work is planned with young people with the special needs on Mondays.
Their activity will be directed on teaching reading, writing, arts and crafts.
Centre has prepared the presentation for specialists of
social sphere about the Canadian centre "Stepping Stones”, specialized on a
help for disable people.
From February, 1 center hosted 4 students for practicum from
Zaporizhzhya National University, Department of Social pedagogy and psychology.
Practicum included such work assignments as: comparative analysis of reports,
documents of Center, presentation «FASD», preparation of new presentations, visit
to Kommunarsky social work agency, participation in a seminars of labour
migrants, attendance of lectures of the Canadian specialists, preparation of
lecture for volunteers on questions of children with the special needs, preparation
and approbation of trainings. Work with students was carried out individually
and in a group. The variety of types of activity enabled students to develop
the professional abilities in various directions.
We continue our work on the program «School». We had 3
trainings and one lecture on forming of healthy way of life (sex education,
HIV/AIDS) for students of the 7th grade school # 40. Children accept
active voice and profess interest to this form of work. Teenagers talk that it
is necessary to use high-quality contraceptives, that putting provocative
clothes on, a teenager does not reflect about consequences. And it can result
in early pregnancy and diseases. Children are ready to take part in
discussions, disputes, ready to defend the point of view. With the personal
interest perceive new know ledges.
Ever-higher level of trust to the trainers, served an example one
utterance of participants: «I have a question, but I will set it after, when a
teacher will go out from a class». Similarly conducted trainings for the pupils
of school-boarding-school for children with cerebral pulse on the prevention of
the asocial behavior. They with the personal interest perceive new information,
although tried not to show a reaction.
On the program «Kangaroo» for a month 77 sessions were
conducted. From weather terms sessions were conducted not systematic. In
February internet-auction was completed «Meeting for the sake of the future».
On auction facilities were collected for acquisition of musical instruments for
work with children with the special needs.
And in the near future employments will begin on musical
therapy in the laboratory of special pedagogy at University. Some children show positive development. For
example, N. counted up to five and began to name animals at drawing. L. began
to name the form of object (circle, square, rectangle, triangle), color (dark
blue, red, green, black, yellow).
In February Center organized work of foreign specialists,
professors of Otto and Florence Driedger. They presented information on social
work in foreign countries ( 10 hours) for the students of specialty «Social
work» in ZNTU, conducted meeting with the teachers of faculty of International
tourism, discussed the stages of
scientific research on the problems of reform of juvenile justice. On results of the visit of guests
two articles were published in ZNTU, in student and institute newspapers.
Within the framework of work the Canadian colleagues visited Kommunarovsky
social work agency (holiday of Women's day March, 8), which was organized by
the volunteers of the Center. A holiday was visited by the journalists of TV
channel (TV-5). An amount of present
persons at the holiday is 35 persons.
A seminar was first conducted on the base of Center of all
the Mennonite organizations of Zaporizhzhya area. The representatives of the
Mennonite family home, Molochansk Mennonite cultural center, Kutuzovsky of
church, MCC, were present. The questions of activity of different structures
came into question, and a decision was accepted to conduct such seminars
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