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Projet : COORDINATING Organization: ELIX, Conservation Volunteers Greece, is a non-governmental not-for-profit organization promoting voluntary service and education, since 1987. It is based in Athens. The main value of ELIX is the personal development of individuals as citizens of the world, through active participation in projects for the common good. ELIX organizes international voluntary projects for the protection of the environment, conservation of the cultural heritage projects, as well as social service projects. At the moment in the office consists of 4 member staff (Elena-Project Manager, Mina- Volunteers Coordinator, Dora- communication Responsible and Georgia- financial Responsible ) HOSTING ORGANIZATION: KEPEP Lehainon KEPEP Child Care Center was established in 1987. The personnel are consisted by 85 persons and 8 volunteers. Currently, the Center hosts 83 children with various serious disabilities - mental and physical. We use to call them kids although their age goes from 6 to 28 but they always act and look like kids. Some of the hosted mentally handicapped children are also physically handicapped. Forty of them are able to move but the rest are incapable of moving and are obliged to stay in bed. Some of the therapies and activities offered in KEPEP are physiotherapy, logotherapy, ergotherapy, psychoanalysis, gardening, and excursions. A programme aiming to improve the abilities, condition and caring of the children, is ran daily in the centre. What is missing is an active group of volunteers that could help the staff and run alternative activities for the childrens' free time. What the children need is a physical contact, a hug, a smile, songs from the people around and love.
Travail : Volunteers will be involved in the following activities:
1) Provide company and support to the kids hosted in the centre,
2) Assist the professional staff during meals, visits to the doctors and hospitals whenever needed etc
3) Take the children out for a walk, with or without a wheelchair
4) Organize the childrens' free time activities
You will have two parts in your job, the first part we call it “program”. This means that you start at 8h20 in the morning you bring kids to their therapy and bring them back.
The second part is that you start at 10h20 in the morning and take kids into the playroom and do activities with them. You will eat lunch in the centre around 13h then you will have free time until 6 when you go back to the centre and work until 8h in the evening.

Situation : Lehaina- Ileia perfecture, PELOPONESE region
Hébergement : The volunteers will be lodged (in a room probably not shared) in the flat of EVS volunteers in Lehaina. They will be given a bicycle to circulate. It takes 5’minutes to go from the center by bike.
Infos supplémentaires : It is important for the volunteers to know that they will work together with the staff of a public service such as KEPEP that copes with many shortages of human and other resources. They will also work with at least two other international EVS volunteers.
There is a major difference between staff and volunteers, as no responsibility will be put on volunteers. They will be assisting the staff in different units of KEPEP and that’s why they have to be cooperative.
It is important that the volunteers be aware of the fact that they will live in a small community and will work with seriously handicapped and mental disabled people. Volunteers should be patient and resistant to psychological stress and ready to help with smile, love and creative proposals to help these kids. An internet/telephone conference will take place before their arrival in Greece.
A very important and involable rule is that the volunteers are not under any kind of drugs addiction, since KEPEP is a medical centre where somebody may have contact with them. Of course all these drugs are highly protected by the stuff but we do not wish to be in this kind of trouble in any way.
The project is very hard and of much importance. It is one of those projects that constitute a life experience . Previous experience with disabled persons will be appreciated but it is not obligatory
However it is definitely needed high motivation to meet such a sensible and hard world and contribute to the real joy for those kids.

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