Generally the main activities for our volunteers will be to promote his country and culture (both in the kindergarten and in our local society), and also to help teachers in a casual activities. Promotion of the country we want to support with special places in each classroom. Such places would be called "Corner of the country" and each volunteer will be able to make some posters or other art works, to put there, to present his country. We would also like to organize meetings with volunteers and activities connected with their country. It would be great to make some competitions about knowledge about culture, language e.t.c. in the kindergarten and among other kindergartens. If the volunteer will be willing to, we can publish some materials prepared by him, about his country. Also we can make a special place in our newspaper for "International News". It would be nice if the volunteer will know some books for children or short poems or songs - than he can present those to children. Also adjusted to volunteer's abilities, we would like him to help to create our web page (similar to his participation in news paper).
Another important thing is that volunteer can take part in all our diverse annual or occasional events. We are trying to have good contact both with parents and local community, so very often (usually once a month, depending on possibilities) we are organizing meetings, picnics, festivals, competitions, trips (e.g. to museums, parks e.t.c.). Of course the volunteer will be able to take part in all of those activities.
About more casual activities, we want the volunteer to actively participate in most of our meetings, help (both teachers and children) in daily activities, engage in competitions e.t.c. Before it, it'll be necessary to know better the director, teachers, staff and whole organization - during the first period we will try to present as much as possible.

We think that during this project volunteer will be able to gain a lot of knowledge about kindergartens in Poland, and also about Polish culture. We will try to help the volunteer to see our culture (also by organizing annually activities and celebrations like Easter, Christmas, Mother's Day e.t.c.) and to participate in it as much as possible. Also by this work the volunteer will some how obliged to know more about children's education, literature, especially poetry of J. Kern, who is a patron of our kindergarten, and we present a lot of his works to our children. We will do our best to help volunteers to find their place in our organization, to feel comfortable here and to work with us in an effective way.

Volunteer profiles and recruitment process

We would like the volunteer to be open for working with children, to have positive attitude. Also it would be nice to have a person who would like to work in group and cooperate with the rest of the staff.

Volunteers applied for project to coordinating organizations via the online base of hosting project. Volunteers going to Partner Countries found the hosting organization by themselves or with help and previous experience of STRIM Association.

Sending Organizations were coordinating the first type of selection. Final selection was made by Hosting Organizations, with cooperation with Coordinating Organization (STRIM). This final selection was based on more detailed research and matching particular volunteers with their destination project. It was crucial for us, what are the interests of the volunteers and what is their motivation for this particular project. It was also important to chose volunteers with different skills, so that they can create individual projects on different fields.
In case of hosting projects, about our demanding for the volunteers, we paid attention to their communicational skills and their motivation to take part in the project.

All tasks of the volunteers are created in such way, that they will fulfill the added quality for the hosting Placement, and will not replace any of the full time workers. Their daily work will be not a substitution of daily work of other colleagues.