12 partners staff, three personal assistants and seventeen volunteers with disabilities (physical, intellectual, autism and sensory) met from 15 to 17 July at the Astoria Grand Hotel in Sofia (Bulgaria) on the occasion of the first workshop of the European programme Be A Volunteer, specialised in social competences.
The aim of the training was to provide a space and time for participants to test tools and methods aimed at developing the competences and skills of young people with disabilities through volunteering. Among them, drama, cooperative work and playful elements as learning vehicles have been worked on; techniques such as shadow theatre with which participants, through the projection of their shadows, have explained different actions and have represented animated objects in a cooperative way. Other interaction, learning, linguistic and digital skills were also addressed, enabling participants to communicate through all possible means (digital, verbal and non-verbal), eliminating intercultural barriers.
Be a Volunteer, co-funded by Erasmus Plus of the European Union, aims to develop and strengthen the skills of young people with disabilities between 16 and 30 years old, improving their employability and their active social participation. This project involves as partners the Provincial Federation of Associations of People with Physical and Organic Disabilities of Seville -COCEMFE Seville- (Spain), Nem Adom Fel Alapítvány (Hungary), Fondatsiya Tsennosti, dobrodeteli, integret (Bulgaria), Associazione Diversamente Onlus (Italy), Zdruzenie na gragani Ischekor – Opstestvo za site Valandovo (North Macedonia), and European Association of service providers for persons with disabilities (Belgium).
