Description of organisation

The kindergarten was established in 1973. It gives the pre-school education for around 130 children in six groups and employs 12 teachers, a director, some methodists and nurses. The target groups are the children of 1 -7 years old. The learning language is Russian. The working time of the kindergarten is from 07.00 till 17.30. The basic directions of education are the following: children’s intellectual and physical development, development of creative skills, as well as Latvian language training and individual approach to every child. Cooperation with parents has an important role in the pre-school education. Also there is the implementation of the national minorities' pre-school education program. There is a swimming-pool in the kindergarten for physical development of small children. The kindergarten has many celebrations every year such as traditional and state holidays, anniversaries, children's birthdays, celebrations of anniversaries and the day of establishment of the kindergarten "Namiņš" together with children's parents, exhibitions of creative works, participation in the educational children’s theatre festival “Children Playing Pleasure” and participation in the poetry competition "Sound, My Language".

Inclusion topics

This organisation is willing to involve volunteers who face situations which make their participation in activities more difficult, from the following categories for different types of project:

• Economic obstacles
• Educational difficulties
• Health problems