Description of organisation

The Local Governmental Kindergarten No. 92 is located in two buildings surrounded by large, beautiful gardens. They are located on the hills of Krzemionki Podgórskie and Parkowa street and Krzemionki street, away from busy streets and urban noise. The whole area is green and pleasant to walk around, including famous green park ‘Bednarskiego’. The vision and mission of the kindergarten is focused on the development of cultural awareness and identity, as well as emotional and creative expression through art and music. All the classes and workshops in the kindergarten are based on healthy and ecological lifestyle.
Children learning in kindergarten are 3-6 years old and they come from Podgórze district. Volunteers will assist teachers mainly in the youngest groups (3/4 y.o) but it is also possible that they will be asked to help with older groups, for example during trips or theatre visits.
Volunteers will support children during classes and games. They will help children in hygienic or self-service activities and assist teachers in workshops as well as educational, artistic and musical activities. They will participate in outside games and events, trips to theatre and other excursions organised by the kindergarten. They will also participate in language classes and according to their preferences – they can run workshops of their own language, culture, cuisine etc. Volunteers will also have opportunity and space to propose their own activities and events. Kindergarten provides possibilities to take part in additional musical, dance and English classes. Teachers are also running interests clubs related to arts, ecology and cooking.
During last four years kindergarten hosted volunteers from Ukraine, France, Spain, Germany and Russia. It also hosted interns from Germany and France for a shorter period of time.

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:

• Cultural differences
• Economic obstacles
• Geographical obstacles