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The project aims to contribute to SDG #4.2 by providing and opening space for quality education for small children from smaller towns and villages, ensuring educational and social opportunities from introductory learning about different cultures to creating friendly ties with people from minorities and with foreigners.

6 weeks

SDG contribution

Every project we run focuses on a target to help meet the Global Goals.

Quality Education - Target 4.2

By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education

Role

About the job and the activities you will be doing.

Global Volunteers will be responsible for animating the time of small children, introducing elements of cultural diversity education, teaching English language, and creating a friendly atmosphere, travelling from village to village. The project will be implemented using interactive, informal educational methods as well as organizing and delivering practical spaces or events mainly in the form of learning through play and intercultural integration.

Project Activities

Week 1
Arrival, introduction to the team and integration with other volunteers.
Onboarding space with NGOs representatives to understand current scenario and beneficiaries needs.
Introduction to materials and detailed explanation of the order of work.
Explanation on how to manage and engage with project beneficiaries .
Incoming preparation seminar.
Week 2
Practical introduction to the system of work in the project.
Departure from the hosting city and visitation of the first 2 villages, first contacts and sessions with kids.
Practical exercising of volunteers to organize games and activities with children (e.g. facepainting, multilanguage memo games, singing songs and chants, etc.).
Possibility of admiring and visiting the nearby area.
Collection of beneficiaries data (from now on semi-weekly).
Week 3
Visiting new villages and children with a frequency of about 2 villages per week, taking care of buses and environment.
Taking care of and playing with children, creating games (e.g. red light green light, musical chair) and friendly atmosphere.
Organizing English language classes for children based on play (e.g. songs, color play, number rhymes).
Organizing and presenting sessions about foreign cultures, e.g. reading foreign books.
Collect and analyse data from beneficiaries.
Possibility of exploring the area for volunteers.
Week 4
Visiting next 2 villages, in the meantime taking care of buses and environment.
Taking care of and playing with children (e.g. plays from different cultures), creating games and friendly atmosphere, e.g. doing storytelling .
Organizing English or own foreign language classes for children based on play.
Organizing and presenting sessions about foreign cultures, e.g. creating artworks and crafts about different cultures .
Collect and analyse data from beneficiaries.
Possibility of exploring the area for volunteers.
Week 5
Visiting another 2 villages and children from there, in the meanwhile taking care of buses and environment.
Taking care of and playing with children, creating games and friendly atmosphere.
Organizing foreign languages classes for children, e.g. about cooking and safety.
Organizing and presenting sessions about foreign cultures, e.g. cooking or making specific food.
Possibility of exploring the area for volunteers.
Collect and analyse data from beneficiaries.
Week 6
Organization and participation in the great closing festival.
Return to the hosting city and discussing feedback (staying there for 1-3 days).
Organization and participation in the goodbye party for volunteers.
Analyse data to determinate outcome results.
Build final project report and presented to AIESEC members and partner representatives.