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Report of the activities of the “Florence Centre” in February 2010


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 annually.

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