Description of organisation

The Special Educational School CentreWaldemar Kikolski in Bialystok, is a public educational school for mentally handicapped at different levels: light, moderate, severe and profound. The educational Centre has a jurisdiction of the Podlaski Voidship.The headquarters is located in Bialystok, at number 40 Antoniuk Fabryczny Street in the former boarding school, which is modernised and adapted for the invalid and retarded. At the moment adapting the Centre involves huge financial investments.
The Educational Control is done by the State Educational Control Board. The Educational Center for retarded receives children with special education needs and possesses a certificate of retardation and permission from the city council of Bialystok. At the moment there are 132 handicapped children, 15 of these children (with profound level of mental handicap) are attending daily. The aim of the center is to prepare these mentally handicapped children
to integration with society and the ability to act self-efficient. Our school realizes many interesting projects, for instance: sport projects (football, athletics, . . . ), cultural projects (theatre, painting, ceramics, . . . ).
The structure of the Center:
• for mentally handicapped with light level.
• for mentally handicapped with moderate and severe level.

Boarding school. Revalidation and Educational Group Activities for mentally handicapped with profound level.

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:

• Geographical obstacles
• Social obstacles
• Refugees