PROJECT ENVIRONMENT

The projects are located in Vilnius (population 650 000), the capital of Lithuania. All of them are in the very center of Vilnius, max 20 minutes on foot to Vilnius cathedral. There are lots of places of interest, bars, cafes, cinemas and other places where you could spend free time round our organisation departments. The area is mostly office and rich people living places but here still live some poor people as well.

ACTIVITIES

CHILDREN DAY CARE CENTER (for children up to 12 years). Possible tasks for volunteer: to organize free time activities for children from social risk families in day care centre; to spend some time with children individually; to help children in doing homework in day care centre; to organize cultural activities for children in the city; to help for organisation to organise festivals; to help organise summer camp for children from social risk families; to help for organisation in administrative work; to help to organise various activities with children at the local parishes.

Content of the tasks will be different according to each volunteer gifts, skills and wishes. We believe that if we will give more space for volunteer in organising these tasks, the project will be more successful.

DAY CARE CENTER'S PROGRAM FOR TEENAGERS "THE BRIDGES". The project aims to empower youngster to take responsibility of succsess of their life. It is open youth work with teenagers.
Possible tasks for volunteers: to spend some time with teenager individually outside institution (become "bigger sister/brother"); to organise creative workshops for teenagers; to make sports activities with teenagers; to organise hikes and camps using experimental learning method; to help youngsters in developing life skills (cooking; learning how to use money); to help youngster to learn other languages; to act together in work therapy activities; to help in organizing festivals; to lead together with stuff groups for development of social skills; to assist youngsters in developing work with computers skills; to help in administrative work.

http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_form_en.cfm?EID=46000135901