Proposed activities for EVS volunteers:
Working as a volunteer in our Centre with disabled is good learning opportunity for the young people. Through the work they will get very good experience from the disability field. Work with people with disabilities may be emotionally hard in the beginning without any previous experience, but it also gives very much for the volunteer in terms of personal development and reviewing the values to life. Volunteer will get good understanding of the Estonian social system. Volunteers creativity and communication skills will develop strongly as volunteers needs to find ways how to get contact with the clients of the centre, none of the clients speaks English, and many of them have difficulties to communicate verbally in general.

Volunteer will work as an assistant for the staff in the centre. There is 7 different groups working at the same time and each group has professional social pedagogue working with them. In one group there is maximum 10 clients at the same time, groups are both in Estonian and in Russian. The volunteer will work in close relation with the pedagogues.
During the day there are different activities taking place in the centre, where volunteer will be helping:
practising and learning main skills needed for everyday life (clothing, personal hygiene, preparing food, housing works like washing the dishes, cleaning rooms etc)
developing motorical skills (handicraft, walks, dancing, games etc)
developing communication skills (increasing the personal vocabulary, adapted signs for expressing personal needs and wishes)
developing social skills (cooperation, correct behaviour, orientating in local environment, creating a contact etc)
developing cognitive skills (orientating in time and room, table games, writing, drawing, listening music, nature and self observations etc)
Volunteers activities are connected with assisting the pedagogues of the groups. There is possibility for the volunteer also to create new self initiative activities in the Centre for the adults.