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Description
Young people from the community including the disabled people and the Roma usually do no spent their time meanigfully. Seniors - clients from the social services home are on the other hand at risk of exclusion from the society. Project adresses these needs of various vulnerable groups in the community by joint activities. As part of the intergenerational learning, seniors will pass on their experience to youngsters and teach them various skills and techniques. They will be able to learn these skills by working directly in the community to improve public places. Main activities of the project include: 1. planning meetings to identify the objectives and needs of the target group and the need for changes in the surroundings; 2. voluntary activities - volunteers and citizens from the community will meet on a joint all-day volunteer actions where seniors, young people, disabled people and Roma will participate; 3. educational workshops; 4. sightseeing trips. The activities will create intergenerational relationships by connecting different population groups in the development of their village, environmental development and self-development and that will enrich all participants. The project will also increase civic participation and will contribute to the demolition of prejudices and the improvement of mutual relations.
Summary of project results
Medically disadvantaged clients lack practical skills that they could use in everyday life and they also lack family role models from whom they would learn everyday activities. With the project activities, we wanted to increase the practical skills of the disabled, provide opportunity for work and volunteer activities in the community and active spending of their free time. We involved cooperation with seniors, children and young people from the village Chocholna-Velcice to participate in volunteer activities in the community and to spend their free time actively and purposefully as well. As part of intergenerational learning, we wanted disabled participants to find their role models in the seniors and other participants - both from a professional and human point of view and to create relationships of trust and friendship that would enrich the lives of all involved. Activities of the project involved: 1. Planning activities - identifying the need for volunteer work in the village, 2. 11 volunteer activities that aimed at beautifying the village, 3. 8 educational workshops, 4. 8 exploration trips, 5. 5 discussions in a form of living books - motivational discussions with people who make a living mainly by manual labor and who have inspired the target group with their lives. 47 disabled people were involved in the project activities, overall 123 people participated - including seniors and young people and children from the village.