Accreditation number: 2010-GR-7

Duration of the project: 6 months

Location: Xylokastro Municipality,  Corinthia region

The voluntary work placement will be in the Center of Creative Work with Children (Κ.Δ.Α.Π.). In our Center can participate children in between 5-12 years old.  Our motivation to host EVS volunteers is the support and help in the every day work of the Center of Creative Work with Children. This includes helping in the organizing the theatrical workshop (pantomim, extemporization, dramatization of fairy tale, theatrical games, theatre with puppets) music-kinetic workshop (music-kinetic games, sound stories, singing, playing on musical instruments, using the equipments of multimedia such as CD, video, television, slides) and fine-art workshop (handcraft, construction, collage, painting). The volunteers will assist the staff in the daily childcare and organise his/her own small project depending on his/her skills and ideas (e.g. music, handicraft, theatre etc). A further important aspect of the project is to give the volunteer the opportunity to put into the practice his/her ideas and to reflect upon this with experienced staff of our Center. We would like the volunteers to learn the way how to protect the children of these vulnerable ages, to promote the European idea among the children as the future adults of Europe by giving them the chance to experience what it actually means.

Our main aims are the introduction of new activities taken by the volunteers for the daily life of the children, the promotion and contact with new cultures, especially from the volunteer origin, moreover to develop the artistic abilities of the children and to help the teachers in their activities.

We would like also to develop the volunteers' responsibility, creativity, knowledge, and skills and to help them to be prepared for their future role as parents. They will also gain more self-esteem and compassion through creative work.

The volunteers will have the chance to broaden their horizons by living and learning in a foreign country and working in a team with the staff of our Center. In addition, they will acquire experience and skills on working with the children, which may prove useful for their professional future.

Our objectives to host volunteers are to strengthen their artistic practice through working in a creative context, to introduce them to the local community, to develop the understanding of the European and international cultural context, to provide informal intercultural education and experience to youths, encouraging their social integration, their active participation and to offer them new means of expression and communication through music, theatre, fine-art etc.