How to be PETER PAN?

1^st May 2011 – 30^th April 2012
Local Youth Groups Association (AGLT) in partnership with EUROPANET Association announces the “How to be PETER PAN” project launch, a project financed by Soros Foundation Romania through the “Emergency Fund” Program.
Projects period: May 2011 – April 2012.

Project purpose:
The development of Educational Socio-Pedagogical Services (Social Animator) from the rural environment to offer social activities to include children with disabilities (visual and mobility) through training and support (scholarship, training in the field of social animator or psycho-pedagogy) offered to youth (17-35 years old) from the rural communities in which AGLT has local youth groups to work in socio-medical centers or directly into the community with children with disabilities.

Direct beneficiaries:
– 60 young people (from which 20 are youth with visual and mobility disabilities) from poor rural and small urban areas, local facilitators in AGLT, trained as animators in working with children and youth with visual and mobility disabilities;
– 20 scholarships;
– 200 children and young people with visual or mobility impairments participants in Playing Days and special days organized by youth;
– 200 families supported in the daily work of child care;
– 20 potential employers (including socio-medical service centers at home).

Intended results:
1. 60 young people will be trained and certified as social animators in working with children with visual and mobility disabilities.
2. 80 Playing Days with at least 200 children with visual and mobility disabilities.
3. 20 young social animators selected to receive a 1-year scholarship.
4. 20 young social animators will participate in the Peter Pan Creation Camp.
5. Publishing and printing of the 2 brochures with at least 30 games for working with children with visual and mobility disabilities in 500 copies.
6. 5 events to promote young social animators (Career Day and workshops) with the participation of parents with children with disabilities or employers with an employment potential of hiring young social animators.
7. The launch of the two-game brochures for the social animators that work with children with visual and mobility disabilities.

For more details and information about the project, contact person: Cristina Chert – project manager, e-mail: neteuropa@ymail.com.

Attachments
Comunicat de presa lansare proiect.doc (357 Kb)