By Leila Ismailova | Project Leader
In October we welcomed new foreign volunteers as a part of EVS (European voluntary service) program: a young man named Julian from Austria and a young lady named Fabiola who arrived from the sunny Italy. These young people work at the orphanage every day together with the Russian volunteers and help our children to learn more about the world.
In order to prepare the EVS volunteers for working with “special” children at the orphanage environment we conducted a week of seminars: the specialists of “Shag navstrechu” told about safety rules, about teaching children to eat and brush their teeth and explained how one should behave with the child during a city trip or during a camp, etc.
Each foreign volunteer has a mentor – a friend who helps to adapt to the new surroundings, who will provide support if necessary or may simply offer to spend a good time together by going to the movies. After this long search two amazing people Tonya and Danya became mentors for Julian and Fabiola. The introduction took place in an easy and interesting atmosphere while preparing personal business cards and playing charades:)
In order to communicate with their colleagues and also in order to lead an active social life in Saint Petersburg our volunteers definitely need to speak Russian very well. Therefore we offer language courses to our volunteers as a part of this project. The amazing DasProekt school of German which also teaches Russian as a foreign language has been educating our volunteers for the second season in a row: they have an individual approach, professional teachers, comfortable classrooms and excellent location at the very heart of the city!
Thank you for making this amazing experience happen!
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