A. Project environment: profile of the organisation and local community
The kindergarten is located in Mokotów district in Warsaw which is situated on the left bank of the Vistula River. It is a residential district. Embassies, residences, foreign delegations, well-known companies, public administration offices and radio and television broadcasting companies have found their place here. In the South-Western part of the district, within the close vicinity to the Okêcie airport and main roads and railway lines, there are service and industrial areas whose character is not burdensome. In the district, there are many educational establishments, including 54 kindergartens, 44 primary schools, 8 special schools, 20 secondary schools, 9 occupational schools, 21 secondary technical schools, 4 post-secondary schools and 5 higher education establishments (Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw Agricultural University, Warsaw Technical University, Warsaw University, Warsaw Higher Economics School). Thus, the number of educational establishments is sufficient and even surpasses the needs of the district. The inhabitants of Mokotów can choose between 3 theaters, 2 cinemas, 9 museums, 20 allotment complexes and sport areas, 2 Jordan gardens, 17 parks, 23 sport clubs and 6 indoor swimming pools. Mokotów district has a good communication system.
The pupils of the kindergarten are physically disabled boys and girls at the age between 3 and 10 years old. Physical disability is accompanied by the other developmental disorders, e.g. behavioral disorders, cerebral spastically, genetic disorders and multiple disability. They are not able to live independently. Each of them needs care and help in everyday activities to some extent. They are open to new contacts, however, sometimes an effort is necessary to gain the pupil's trust. They can be cheerful and joyful and come into emotional contact. On the other hand, the verbal contact is difficult as most of pupils does not speak.
The great diversity of our pupils' traits and characters as well as different kinds of their disorders, which determine their behavior, does not allow to describe shortly the target group. It seems that readiness to new challenges and creativity of the volunteers will allow them to create the relation satisfactory for them and for their pupils.

B. Proposed activities for EVS volunteers
The Special Kindergarten ? 393 can offer the volunteer a new learning opportunities. For a volunteer who is interested in working with disabled people this EVS project could be a unique chance to make use of already gained knowledge and experience. Examples of various volunteers' activities are listed below. We think that the volunteer will have an opportunity to gain new experience, to practice different skills (e.g. organizational, communication, foreign language, team spirit, creativity, etc.), to obtain the knowledge about therapeutic methods, to participate in the therapy of pupils in school and to develop his own projects and initiatives.
In our opinion the project gives also individual profits to the volunnteer. We would like to acquaint the volunteer with Polish language, culture, history and tradition. We hope that the volunteer will find new friends among the children and the staff.
We provide the volunteer the mentorship and supervision. He or she will be able to count on the support of the specialists and other staff. The work with disabled children is demanding, therefore we know that the volunteer will need some trainings and guidelines. His development in the work with children will be monitored. In the same time the volunteer will have a field for his own creativity and invention. In order to make the contact with the co-workers and children easier, the Polish language course will be provided. The volunteer will also have a possiblity to work on the website of the kindergarten, where information about kindergarten events and everyday tasks are placed.
It would be great if the volunteer could be a person that has new ideas, enriches the range of proposed activities for the pupils, participates in the classes and helps the staff. The volunteer will always be supported by the teachers and therapists. Together with them he or she will help the children in everyday activities (e.g. changing clothes, meals, toilet). Moreover, he will organize and coordinate the workshops for them (e.g. artwork, musical activities, physiotherapy and physical recreation, theatre activities, culture education, favourite pastimes). Another important task would be the integration the pupils with the local community by involving them in the local events, organizing excursions, visting theatres, parks, zoo, etc. The voulnteer could also prepare together with the children traditional Polish feast for physically retarded children and for their families (e.g. Christmas, Easter, Grandmother's Day, St. Andrew's Day).

C. Volunteer profiles and recruitment process
As the target group is quite demanding, it would be good if the volunteer hosted in our special kindergarten would have at least a basic knowledge in the field of disability, mainly physical disability and prefereably and may be even experience. Nevertheless, this is no demand, because all the skills and knowledge to carry out the project takss can be acquired during the project. The most important is that the volunteer is interested and motivated to work with disabled children and is open-minded, tolerant, patient and persistent person who enjoys challenges. The candidate should have a team spirit but also should be able to work independently. An advantage would be creativity and good organizational skills.
The Polish Robert Schuman Foundation as a coordinating organization will organize recruitment process to make sure that the most suitable candidates are chosen. We are open to cooperation with different volunteers and diferent sending organizations. The selection will be carried out on the basis of CVs and Motivation letters that the candidates would send us. Sometimes also short phone-interviews will be carried out with the best candidates. The final decisions on the choice of volunteers will be always consulted with the Special Kindergarten ? 393.

D. Special needs (if applicable)
Due to specific character of the hosting organization, there cannot be hosted any volunteers with special needs.

E. Risk prevention, safety and protection
The volunteers will be always able to count on the support of the specialists, the staff. Each volunteer will have a supervisor and a mentor. They will be able to ask for an instruction or advice. The volunteers will be acquainted with the work safety and hygiene as well as the rules and methods how to work with disabled children.