School nº 5

One part our activities in the project takes place in a school, where we go every week.

Our goal is to play with the children and make some activities in an interactive way to sensibilise them to sustainable development and MDGs, showing them that they can participate at their level…!

The school is called school nr.5, and it’s for children with some social background or disabilities. They couldn’t reach the level of a normal school for various reasons, and try to learn together in this one. Anyway, they are all very enthusiastic and can understand a lot of things !!!

First we introduced ourselves making some funny presentations about our countries. They liked it very much because it’s the first time they meet foreign people, and always want to know more…they even revise what they learn about it with their teacher, Irina, very often !

Then, we helped them to create clothes with garbage and recycled things, that they showed in a contest between schools, and won the first price !

We always prepare and play a lot of games with them. This is very important to get to know each other, have fun together, and to allow them to put outside some things in an indirect and not forbidden way…

During the next meetings, we will make a treasure hunt about the different MDS, trying to make themselves think about some topic and guess answers to some questions…then we’ll try to bring them more elements about it, adapted to them like with videos and games…we will also make artistic activities, paintings and drawings about what they feel about this and organise exhibitions in the school and other places. The last meetings will be dedicated to create some useful objects with garbage, and finally, a good-bye party with cooking together food of our different countries !

We are very happy to work with this school, and even though we don’t speak our language, Cristina, our coordinator, Ana and Monica, some Romanian volunteers from Art Fusion and Irina, the teacher, are always here to translate. But anyway, the communication with them is easy and we can feel a lot of things and send our message even without talking, and create relationships with Bubu, Razvan, Alin, Adi, Alex, Mihai and the others…that enriches everyone!

Fabienne