Aims:
- Forming tolerant attitudes towards socially vulnerable groups
- Accepting social responsibility, expressed in actual behaviour
- Acquiring the skills involved in planning social work: creating the mechanisms to realise a project and planning an evaluation of its effectiveness (the achievability of the intended results)
Target group: schoolchildren of the senior classes, students at colleges and universities, members of school and student councils. A permanent team of 10-15 persons is to take part in the Programme from each individual educational institution.
Duration: 2 hours
Short Description:
At the start of the session, the group takes part in a simulation game focused on understanding the particularities and needs of people with limited abilities, setting out the problem of the interrelationships between aims and possibilities, overcoming stereotypes of perception and thinking. As a result of the game, the participants' motivation for socially significant activity will be increased, both in these session and in their ordinary lives.
Work on their social projects will continue, specifically in the area of refining the necessary actions to be taken, as well as connecting the initially set aims, desired results and the resources required. At this stage, the project should be subjected to the highest possible degree of fine tuning on behalf both of those leading the sessions and the project teams themselves, in order to maximise their effectiveness and feasibility.