imagesStowarzyszenie Bona Fides i ormiańska organizacja Republican Paediatric Rehabilitation Centre poszukują wolontariuszy na zaakceptowany projekt EVS w Erywaniu.
Zgłoszenia (CV w języku angielskim) prosimy przesyłać na oba adresy mailowe: skrabel@bonafides.pl i huj.evsvolunteer@gmail.com.

Organizacja przyjmująca: Republican Paediatric Rehabilitation Centre
Deadline: 15.04.2018
Daty aktywności : 15.05.2018- 14.05.2019 albo 01.09.2018-31.08.2019

The Rehabilitation Center is giving rehabilitation treatment for underage patients with different chronic diseases and conditions of skeletal and neuromuscular system such as Cerebral Palsy, Traumatic Brain Injuries, Myelomeningocele, Hydrocephalus, Neuromuscular diseases, different orthopaedic problems, burn injuries, skeletal dimorphisms, amputations, peripheral nerve injuries, different contractures, arthritis and other. During the year about 800 patients are getting treatments on inpatient and outpatient bases team approach.

Rehabilitation medicine is new in Armenia, it needs to develop involving general rehabilitation events that will contribute to the disabled children’s physical and mental maximum development, will give them independence in their daily activities and will contribute to the integration into society.

As one of the stages of the development of the rehabilitation medicine an Integration Kindergarten was opened in 2002 on the grounds of Republican Paediatric Rehabilitation Centre.

The organisation has a many-years experience of hosting international volunteers for short (international summer workcamps) and long term (EVS volunteers). The staff of the Centre is well experienced in working with the volunteers and providing them with a rich learning experience. The activities implemented by the organisation are in line with objectives of this project and will contribute to a fruitful flow of the project.

As a good example of most successful projects of EVS volunteers we may give the opening of the Happy Room in the Centre, where the volunteers work with children and create an ambiance of being away from the Centre and letting the kids to forget they are in the process of receiving treatment.

Objectives and motivation

The organization has hosted international volunteers for more than 11 years now, the project hosted international summer workcamps, hosted EVS volunteers. The experiences have been good and the international experience of a volunteer gives an interesting and valuable input to work of the centre. International volunteers are especially active in the leisure time program. The fact that an international volunteer speaks a different language, and comes from a different culture brings new live to the Centre. New ideas regarding activities are more than welcome. We wish that a volunteer develops an own project, according to his/her interest, for example a music project or an art project.

The main aim of the project is to work with children who have got different physical disabilities, to educate and train them and to make them feel equal members of society. The volunteer will be involved in all programs and will be encouraged to propose his/her own ideas and suggestions. The volunteer will live and work with the local community. Apart from working with the children, he/she will have the possibility to spend his/her free time with them and to learn a lot about Armenia. The volunteer will be involved in discussions and seminars about the future of the children and will be able to share his/her opinion on the situation. With the help of the volunteer they will be able to organize more workshops, in which the children according to their health can draw, sculpture, sing and dance.

Volunteer tasks

Main tasks of the volunteer will be: The volunteer will participate in most activities with the children and have a variety of different tasks:

  • The volunteer will have the opportunity to participate in all arts workshops and to support the staff in organizing these activities (painting, sculpturing, handicrafts, etc.)
  • He/she will establish social contact with individual children and their parents by chats and games.
  • He/she will present his/her country and culture to the children
  • Creation of “Happy room” in the Centre, organization of recreational activities for the children
  • playing with the children
  • social activities, group games etc.
  • excursions and outdoor activities
  • the volunteer will have the task to help organizing a big exhibition of the art works of the children on different topics
  • organizing sport activities in the territory of the centre

Support and training will be provided by the staff of the organization and by the community. The volunteer will be invited to social events and will be supported in learning and practicing basic Armenian language, according to his/her wish.

The volunteer will work 5 days per week (approx. 30 hours) and will have weekends off.