Clubul Copiilor Zimnicea, Romania
A state non-formal education institution, belongs to the Minister of Education and is situated in the most southerly point of Romania, 15000 inhabitants, port to the Danube, in an agricultural area which was declared for at least 10 years as Disadvantaged Area (HG 1280 from 7 December 2000/ M.Of. nr. 661/15.12. 2000). The population is mostly composed by old people, youth and children, the middle age people migrate to Italy, Spain and other European countries for work, also, are around 1000 Gipsy families.
Work with children aged 5-18 years old, from all 5 schools in the town to discover and develop their talents, skills and practical abilities, offering to them an interesting and educative way to spend their free time, after normal classes in schools. Being in a agricultural and isolated area, usually families transmitted to children a lot of prejudices, fear of new, intolerance towards those who are not like them.
Our objectives are:
- develop social skills and knowledge for communication in foreign languages, awareness of European multi-cultural existence and promote tolerance, mutual and intercultural understanding
- promote performance, create leadership qualities, personal development and promotes involvement and sense of responsibility toward others.
- stimulate creativity, initiative, ingenuity, improvise and promote good ideas in international education through games
- promote positive competition through cooperative games which arouse feelings of support and membership of the group and develop skills of self evaluation taking into account the progress they made
- exchange experiences and information about European dimension in teaching and pedagogical methods
- share all these activities and results with teachers and children in town and make school activities more attractive
By playing games will communicate, meet people, see and understand new things, all these help children to develop and learn about new kinds of career options, new job possibilities which are very different from what they find in their agricultural area, will be more friendly, with much greater foreign language abilities, more tolerant, more cooperative, with new visions about their life and also better understanding of the European dimension of their citizenship, team work, leadership, make new friends, be proud about their culture and history heritage.
"People do not play because they are young, but they are young for playing"
A state non-formal education institution, belongs to the Minister of Education and is situated in the most southerly point of Romania, 15000 inhabitants, port to the Danube, in an agricultural area which was declared for at least 10 years as Disadvantaged Area (HG 1280 from 7 December 2000/ M.Of. nr. 661/15.12. 2000). The population is mostly composed by old people, youth and children, the middle age people migrate to Italy, Spain and other European countries for work, also, are around 1000 Gipsy families.
Work with children aged 5-18 years old, from all 5 schools in the town to discover and develop their talents, skills and practical abilities, offering to them an interesting and educative way to spend their free time, after normal classes in schools. Being in a agricultural and isolated area, usually families transmitted to children a lot of prejudices, fear of new, intolerance towards those who are not like them.
Our objectives are:
- develop social skills and knowledge for communication in foreign languages, awareness of European multi-cultural existence and promote tolerance, mutual and intercultural understanding
- promote performance, create leadership qualities, personal development and promotes involvement and sense of responsibility toward others.
- stimulate creativity, initiative, ingenuity, improvise and promote good ideas in international education through games
- promote positive competition through cooperative games which arouse feelings of support and membership of the group and develop skills of self evaluation taking into account the progress they made
- exchange experiences and information about European dimension in teaching and pedagogical methods
- share all these activities and results with teachers and children in town and make school activities more attractive
By playing games will communicate, meet people, see and understand new things, all these help children to develop and learn about new kinds of career options, new job possibilities which are very different from what they find in their agricultural area, will be more friendly, with much greater foreign language abilities, more tolerant, more cooperative, with new visions about their life and also better understanding of the European dimension of their citizenship, team work, leadership, make new friends, be proud about their culture and history heritage.
"People do not play because they are young, but they are young for playing"