By Parshina Elizaveta | Project Leader
I would like to tell you about one of the essential elements of our program – educational trips for our students.
Children growing in families, from very early age ask a lot of various questions about the world –why the grass is green, why the sky is blue, why the fare is hot. By getting answers to these questions they widen their world view and later in trips and different places they begin to obtain their own life experience to all thing around them.
Children growing up in orphanages often lack the opportunity to ask adults questions and to obtain their own experience outside.
I was amazed when Volodya, who lives in a psychoneurological mental home, touched the ground for the first time in his life in his 17 years old in Big Change classes. What he felt is beyond words. Another our student couldn’t understand the difference between grass and flowers. She didn’t ever touch this in her 25 y.o.
So, the educational trips aim at solving several issues. First of all, it is widening the horizons and obtaining new life experience. Secondly, it is an opportunity in real life to acquire many useful skills: plan the itinerary, find out new interesting places, buy tickets, plan the budget. And also it is an opportunity to believe that dreams can come true if one makes an effort to achieve them.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude for your support of Big Change students and programs. It is all happen thanks to your support, thank you very much again for that!
By Alikina Anna | pr-manager
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