Description
The project addresses the irregular and chaotic involvement of people in volunteering in the town of Dimitrovgrad. The project aims at promoting volunteering through training of volunteers. First, an information campaign will be held to attract 15 new volunteers. Second, the volunteers will pass through a series of trainings on the principles and methods of volunteering, working for social and cultural institutions and teamwork. Third, volunteers will be actively involved in organizing the Night of the Museums, visiting and playing with children at the local hospital, helping the elderly in 2 pensioner’s clubs, doing public readings at the city library and preparing gift and souvenirs with vulnerable children. Finally, the volunteers will help organize an event for the 7th of July, World Chocolate Day. The project will benefit volunteers, the vulnerable groups in the local community (children at risk, the elderly, the disabled) and cultural institutions.
Summary of project results
The project addressed the irregular and chaotic involvement of people in volunteering in the town of Dimitrovgrad. The project promoted volunteering through training of volunteers and as a result of its activities 22 new volunteers from different age groups, 8 of them above 29, were attracted and trained as volunteers. They continue to be actively involved in the implementation of the activities of the Foundation. The volunteers were referred to cultural and social institutions where they could help with voluntary work after they had been trained and briefed and in according to schedules prepared and coordinated in advance. Each of the volunteers had the opportunity to choose the venue or venues for scheduled volunteering as well as join the events organized by the foundation and the institutions in the city. Give a Smile Foundation which is a member of the network of the National Alliance for Volunteer Action aims at further developing its activity as a centre for attracting and training volunteers to contribute with voluntary work in various institutions as well as attract in turn new people to promote volunteering. To find more information about the project, please, visit:
http://givesmile.eu/
Summary of bilateral results