1. THE SAMARA REGION
· General information
· History
· Education and culture
· The city of Samara
2. CULTURAL BACKGROUND
· Religion
· National holidays and festivals
· Russian cuisine
3. WHAT IS DiGe vu Samara
· Brief Description of Organisation
· Who you can contact
4. Practical arrangements
· Visa procedures
· Language
· Prices
5. workcamps
· PLEASE SEE DESCRIPTIONS
6. LONG TERM PROJECTS
· Center for Social Information and Development (PSI/Samara)
· Samara Regional Centre for Social Assistance to Family and Children “Semya” (“Family”)
· Samara regional public organisation “Society “Down Syndrome”
· Samara Government organisation “Centre of daily stay of elderly and handicapped people “hippotherapy”

The Samara region
General information


The Samara Region is situated in the south-eastern part of the European Russia in the middle part of the Volga, Europe's biggest river, and occupies the area of 53 600 square kilometers that is 0.31% of the territory of Russia. In the North it borders on the Republic of Tatarstan, in the South - the Saratov Region, in the East - the Orenburg Region and in the North-West - the Uliyanovsk Region. The Region stretches for 335 km from the North to the South and for 315 km from the West to the East.

Being a forest and steppe zone, the Region is covered with the pine and deciduous woods in the North, and its southern part is occupied by the steppe. The largest mountain-mass and at the same time one of the most beautiful places of Russia is the Zhiguli Mountains, situated immediately in the river Volga bend - "Samarskaya Luka" in Russian. Apart from the Volga, the main waterway of the region, the major rivers are the Samara, the Sok, the Kinel, the Bolshoy Irghiz and the Kondurcha.

The Samara Region has sharp continental climate with the average annual air temperature +3.8 degrees centigrade. The average temperature in January is -13.9 degrees centigrade and +20.1 in July.

Adjacency to the waterless Asian deserts affects the southern part of the Region resulting in recurring droughts there. This very circumstance makes a good deal of land in the Region unpropitious for farming.

3279 thousand people live in Samara permanently. The largest cities are Samara (1210,6 thousand people), Togliatti (724,1 thousand people), Syzran (187,3 thousand people), Novokuibyshevsk (117,6 thousand people), Chapayevsk (86,7 thousand people), Zhigulyovsk (59,8 thousand people), Otradny (53,4 thousand people).


History

According to the archaeological data the first human settlements on the territory of the Middle Volga area emerged in the period of the late Paleolith. Hunting was the major pursuit of ancient people. There were plenty of wild animals in the area - hairy rhinoceros, mammoth, aurochs, elk, giant deer and so on.
At ancient times separate Scythian-sarmatian tribes roamed on the territory of the future Samara Region. This is known by the archaeological artefacts from the sepulchral mounds built by those people.
Since the 7c. AD the Middle Volga area fell under the influence of the Khazar Khanate, though after the defeat of that state in the 10 century by the troops of the Kiev prince Svyatoslav the peoples of the Volga region got rid from the Khazar rule.
In the Middle Ages the southern border of the Volga-Kama Bulgaria ran through the territory of the present Samara Region. After the army of the Mongol Khan Batu invaded Europe in the 13 century the Middle Volga area for a long time became a part of the Golden Horde, and later, of its successor - the Kazan Khanate. In 1391 one of the greatest battles of the medieval era between the armies of the Central Asia sovereign Timur and the last Golden Horde ruler Tokhtamysh took place at the river Kondurcha, and Timur won.
As the Russian power and influence increased, the exclusively favorable position of the Middle Volga in terms of economy and defense made the Muscovite sovereigns grow interested to this land. Soon after the fall of Kazan, by the order of Czar Fedor Ioannovich in 1586 a fortress was founded at the mouth of the river Samara as an outpost of the Russian state against the raids of nomads. The fortress was named after the river.The first Samara voevode (military commander) was Prince Grigoriy Osinfovich the Prince Zasekin. The origin of the name Samara as such is more like an enigma, and its meaning was lost in the deep of ages. Anyway, as back as on the Venice geographical maps of the 14th century a convenient quay named Samar was marked at the Volga bend near the present Samara. Apparently, the meaning of the word Samara is hidden in the forgotten language of some long extinct nation.
A brisk intersection of trade routes, fertile soil, rich pastures and abundant fisheries stimulated influx of populace and boosted colonization of this land. In 1850 the Samara province was promoted to the status of a separate administrative unit. It was popular all over Russia as a major center of wheat trade and agricultural production. Outstanding figures of national and foreign culture worked wonders here, they were: Alexey Tolstoy, Korolenko, Garin-Mikhaylovsky, Gorky, Repin, Gasek and many others.
Dramatic developments that struck Russia in the first decades of the 20th century did not miss the Samara land. Three revolutions, the First World War and civil war deeply engraved on the history of the land. As it was usual at that time, the city Samara was named after Kuibyshev, and the region was renamed accordingly. In its present borders the Region has existed since December, 1936.
It became one of the nation's biggest industrial centers during the Second World War as a result of evacuation of a number of engineering and aircraft works to here from the western regions. And after most of the government offices and diplomatic corps had moved to Samara later in 1941 the city was rightfully called the capital of the rear. In the post-war period the Region continued to build up its economic potential developing the oil, aerospace engineering, hydro-energy and motor-car industries. Nowadays the Samara Region is one of the major contributors to the industrial might of this country along with Moscow, Saint-Petersburg and the Ural.
In 1990 the historical name was reverted to the city and the region - Samara and the Samara Region.


Education and culture


There are 13 state schools of higher learning, 9 private ones, 62 professional schools of various ownership, 1112 high schools and 16 private high schools.
Several dozens of scientific institutions and labs continue to carry out different research programs in many fields of knowledge. Fundamental investigations, applied studies and design works are carried out by 72 institutions, including 5 academic, 15 research institutes and 20 design groups. The Central Specialized Design Lab dealing with the space technologies is known throughout the whole world. The Region's scientific fame is upheld by the branch of the Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences, the Radio Institute, the Giprovostokneft Institute, up-to-date scientific scholarships at the Samara State University, Medical University, Technical University, Pedagogical University and Agricultural Academy standing on the front line of science. There are over hundred state, municipal, private, folklore and amateur theaters. The Gorky Academic Drama Theater, the Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, The Koleso Theater, the Gorod Theater and many others are among the most popular ones. The Samara Philharmonic Society is reputed not only for its splendid building, but for its diverse repertoire as well. It was there that for the fist time in the world there was rendition of the famous Seventh (Leningrad) Symphony by Dmitry Shostakovich who was living in Kuibyshev (Samara) in evacuation.
Picture galleries and libraries of the Region keep attracting scores of citizens to them.
Many of the Region's 4600 sports sites foster actively the popularization of the physical culture and sports.


The city of Samara

The city of Samara was first mentioned in official documents in 1586 in the reign of Fedor Ioannovich when in the spring time construction of a fortress on the Volga was started for protection from the Nogays and Kalmyks, and provision of the waterway from Kazan to Astrakhan. The fortress was small; an impenetrable forest approached almost close to it from the North and East; the river Samara protected it from the South and the mighty Volga - from the West. In 1688 the fortress Samara was renamed to the Samara city.
In 1708 in the reign of Peter I Samara ranked the ninth town of the Kazan province, and since 1719 it was attached to the Astrakhan province. At that time there were 210 citizens' homesteads on the territory of the town. Since 1851 Samara was a provincial town with the population of 15 thousand. The Samara province ranked first in the whole of the Russian Empire per the amount of wheat harvested. 375 shops traded colonial, manufactured and other goods. Bazaars took place every week in two squares.
Later in the 19th century there were 46 plant and factories in Samara where 2.5 thousand regular workers were employed. The rise of industry was hampered by absence of the required energy supply. The first city power station in Samara was built in 1900. By 1917 as many as 90 industrial enterprises operated in Samara, e.g. a mechanical bakery and a grain-elevator containing 140 million pounds of grain.
Since the town has a convenient geographical location the Donbass and Urals became major metal suppliers for the industry that laid foundation for the set-up of a lot of big enterprises of the machine engineering and metal processing. There were such natural resources in the vicinity of the town as sulphur, phosphorites, limestone, dolomite, gypsum, chalk, clay and sand. It made for the industry of construction materials. In the 30s Samara became a center of oil production and processing in Russia. All those natural and economic conditions made for the development of the city as a big industrial city.
During the World War II the local industrial potential was complemented by powerful industrial base of the enterprises evacuated from Moscow, Leningrad and other cities.


CULTURAL BACKGROUND Religion
Religion plays a prominent role in the public and spiritual life of today's Russia. The majority of believers belong to the Orthodox Christian denomination. Russia adopted Christianity under Prince Vladimir of Kiev in 988, in a ceremony patterned on Byzantine rites.
After the 1917 upheavals, the Russian Orthodox Church has traversed a hard and tragic road. The early years of the Soviet regime were particularly trying for it. The Land Decree of October 26, 1917, deprived the Church of the bulk of its lands. The worst hit was the monasteries. In its another decree, made public on January 26, 1918, the Council of People's Commissars (the government) separated the church from the state and school. As a result, all church organisations lost the powers of legal entity and the right to own property. To have the decree put into effect, a special liquidation committee was set up to evict the monks from their monasteries, many of which were destroyed, not without acts of vandalism, in which church utensils and bells were melted down and shrines containing relics were broken open.
In the late 1980s, with attempts launched to restructure the country's economic and political system, major changes were made in the relationship between the state and the Church in the hope of revival. The millennium of Christianity in Russia in 1988 was celebrated on a grand scale. That year, 1,610 new religious communities, most of them of the Orthodox belief, were registered in the country.
In 1990, a series of laws were passed on the freedom of religion, under which many of the existing restrictions were removed from religious communities, allowing them to step up their activities.


Nowadays statistics
With nearly 5,000 religious associations the Russian Orthodox Church accounts for over a half of the total number registered in Russia. Next in numbers come Moslem associations, about 3,000, Baptists, 450, Seventh Day Adventists, 120, Evangelicals, 120, Old Believers, over 200, Roman Catholics, 200, Krishnaites, 68, Buddhists, 80, Judaists, 50, and Unified Evangelical Lutherans, 39.
Some statisticians estimate the percentage of believers at 40 per cent of the entire Russian Federation. Close to 9,000 communities belonging to over forty confessions had been officially registered in the country.
The majority of religious Russians are Christians. The country has over 5,000 Russian Orthodox churches. Many are built anew or under repair on parish and local budget money.


National Holidays and Festivals

Russian holidays present a motley picture — new and old, official and unofficial, professional and private, religious and secular. All occasions warrant a celebration. We describe here only a few principal holidays, in chronological order.

· The New Year is first on the calendar and in popularity. Many celebrate it twice, on January 1 and 14 (which corresponds to January 1 in the Julian calendar, used in Russia before 1918.
· Next is February 23, Soldier's Day, known until recently as Soviet Army Day, popularly viewed as holiday for all men and closely followed by its female counter-part, Women's Day, March 8, when women receive flowers, presents and are toasted by men.
· Mayday, until recently officially termed International Workers' Solidarity Day, is now known as Spring and Labour Day. On some years, it occurs on or close to with Russian Orthodox Easter, so some people celebrate in church while some attend customary demonstrations.
· Russia celebrates Victory Day on May 9 to commemorate the millions fallen in World War II. Flowers and wreaths are laid on wartime graves on this day, and veterans come out into the streets wearing their military orders and medals. Alas, there are fewer of them with every passing year.
· June 12 is Russia's newest holiday, Independence Day, which commemorates the adoption in 1991 of the Declaration of Sovereignty of the Russian Federation.
· November 7 - the anniversary of the socialist revolution of October 1917, which established communist power — still survives. The system is gone, but many still cling to the custom.
Church feasts have been reborn. Easter is celebrated nation-wide, as of old, and Christmas became a day off. Muslims Jews and Buddhists also celebrate their feasts without fear secular authorities.


Russian Cuisine

Original and varied, Russian cuisine is famous for exotic soups as ukha (fish soup), shchi (cabbage soup which is made of assorted meats), pokhlebka (thick broth), okroshka (cold vegetable soup). Russians are great lovers of pelmeni, small Siberian meat pies boiled in broth, bliny (pancakes) with sour cream or caviar, cabbage pie, beef a la Strogonoff.
Every housewife of any experience has her own recipes for pies, pickles, and sauerkraut. Even more varied is the choice of recipes for mushrooms, one of the most abundant and nourishing gifts of our woods. They are fried, pickled, salted, boiled and what not. "No dinner without bread," goes the Russian saying. Wheat loaves have dozens of varieties. As to rye bread, Russians eat more of it than any other nation of the world--another peculiarity of the Russian diet.
As the Russian custom has it, a festive table isn't worth this name without a bottle of vodka. Russians are traditionally hearty drinkers: as good whiskey shall come from Scotland, and port from Portugal, so Russian wheat vodka is the world's best. We have an amazing variety to offer, from the clear, colourless Moskovskaya and Stolichnaya to all kinds of bitters with herbs and spices.
Of our folk soft drinks, kvass is the best known. Made of brown bread or malted rye flour, it goes down best on a sultry summer day. If you add it to chopped-up meat and vegetables, you get okroshka, exquisite cold soup. Tea with lemon is the traditional Russian beverage.


WHAT IS DiGe vu Samara

Brief Description of Organisation

DiGe vu Samara is a young non-governmental organization. It was established on the initiative of active youth leaders. Its main activities include:
- promotion of international volunteerism in the Samara region by means of long-term, mid-term projects and work camps;
- involvement of active young people into the social life of the Samara region by means of youth projects, such as AIDS prevention campaigns, etc.;
- involvement of the disabled people into the life of society by means of the voluntary projects;
- organization of cultural activities, festivals, workshops;
- organization of thematic trainings and seminars for youth leaders.
DiGe vu Samara has been a partner of YAP and ALLIANCE since 2005. In June 2007 DiGe vu Samara became a full member of CCIVS (UNESCO).


Who You Can Contact

Diana Simkovich – manager
Anastasia Isaeva – program coordinator
Anastasia Simkovich – outgoing responsible
Phone: +7 (919) 8004220
e-mail: digevu@yandex.ru/ digevu@gmail.com
web site: www.digevu.narod.ru


PractiCal Arrangements
Visa Procedures

Getting visa in Russia nowadays is not a complicated process and you will receive all the support in order to have a legal stay in Russia.

Steps to get the visa are as following:

1. DiGe vu Samara will send you the attached form (please see the questionnary below) which should be carefully filled out.
2. DiGe vu Samara will fill out the special application form and submit it to the visa police departement where the organisation has official registration. Please, note that we should get the form 2 MONTHS before volunteer’s departure.
3. The invitation letter will be issued and sent out via regular mail approximately in 2 weeks. We kindly ask sending organisations to take the administration expenses (250RU=about 9 EURO) from the volunteers and to send this money to us at the end of the season.
4. After getting an invitation letter an exchangee should apply for the visa in the Russian Consulate in his/her country. According to the invitation letter an exchangee will be able to obtain short-stay visa. The goal of the visit to Russia should be indicated as “youth exchange”.
5. The price and the period of the visa issue depends on the country. For EU countries average price is approximately 80 euros and it will take about 7 working days. It can be issued in a shorter period which will lead to a corresponding growth of the price.

Questionnary for the Invitation Letter

1.	Last name
2.	First name / names
3.	Date of birth
4.	Citizenship
5.	Passport number, date of issue, date of its validity
6.	Full name and address of the organisation you work for
7.	Position
8.	Telephone and fax numbers
9.	Date of visit from to
10.	Desirable type of visa (single or multiple)
11.	Cities where you are planning to visit in Russia	Moscow, St. Petersburg, Samara
12.	City where you are going to collect your visa
13.	Person you would like to visit

Prices

train ticket Moscow-Samara 900-1800 RUR
bus/trolleybus/tram ticket 9 RUR
entrance to cinema 50 - 250 RUR
cup of tea 8 RUR
letter to Europe 20 RUR
newspaper 25 RUR
beer 45 RUR
lunch in a café 150 - 500 RUR
*1 EURO= about 36,4 RU


Language
A volunteer should speak English or French. It’d be good if he/she has at least some basic knowledge of Russian. Very few Russian people can speak foreign languages, mainly due to the lack of practice.


List of worcamps 2008

Code/Name	Location	Dates	Type	Age limit	No of vols
dgv 01	Festivals	27.06-27.07	FEST	18+	10
dgv 02	Ya Polyglot	open all the year round	EDU	20+	3
dgv 03	Samara Heritage	14.07-27.07	PHOTO	18+	10

Progects descriptions

dgv 01 FESTIVALS (FEST)

Project:
Songs by the fire gave birth to hundreds of legends. Each country has its own stories but at the same time they unite people all over the world. One can observe a nice picture of people sitting round the fire and singing songs. This project combines cleaning the festival place and direct participation in the event. The camp includes three fests, Grushinsky, Metafest, Russian chanson festival and a “bard camp”. These are the festivals of different music styles: bard, chanson, Reggie, jazz, drums, club music. Everyone has a choice! We are waiting for creative individuals, nature lovers, open to communication.
We are happy to exchange information about different styles of music in our countries.
You are a creative person, you like music and play a musical instrument - this project is for you!


Work:
Cleaning the festival place
Organization actions on cleaning the surrounding territory
Installation of promotion banners
Assistance in installation of musical equipment


Accommodation:
The volunteers live in tents.

Food:
Meals will be provided in the canteen of the festival.

Recruitment:
Age 18+
Interest in music
Interest in preserving nature
Ability to play a music instrument is very welcome
Sociability


dgv 02 Ya Poliglot (EDU)


Project:
Linguistic Club “Ya-Polyglot” develops a variety of educational projects for children and teenagers. One of our projects is a summer language camp which gives children and teenagers an opportunity to have a good rest after the school year and learn foreign languages in a friendly and relaxing atmosphere. While in the camp, children and teenagers not only improve their skills of cooperation and team-work, but also learn to overcome language and culture barrier. That is why it is essential that volunteers from a variety of countries participate in the project.
The project is open all the year round. Volunteers may come for three months.

Work:
We invite volunteers for the position a group-leader.
A group-leader is responsible for:
organizing culture and sport activities,
maintaining discipline in the group they are responsible for,
uniting the kids and teaching them sharing and cooperation.
A teacher is responsible for:
teaching a foreign language/languages to children,
helping in organizing culture and sport activities.

Accommodation:
Host family


Requirements:
20 – 35 years old
non-smoker
speaking English and French fluently, preferably one of them as a native one
experience in working with children and/or teenagers
loving sports and physically fit
creative and initiative
responsible


dgv 03 SAMARA HERITAGE (PHOTO)


Project:
This project is aimed to attract the attention of the society and the government to the problems of architectural buildings. The heritage of the ancient merchants town constantly runs the risk of carelessness and neglect. This affects democratic values, including the right of descendants to know the history of their native city. All the more, the main problem is that people have no idea of what surrounds them. The reason to this is the disastrous state of the monuments. The historical heritage is supposed to be translated to the next generations.

Work:
Daily activities will begin in the morning and end in the evening. The activities will include visits, photographic rallies, excursions and leisure time. The volunteers will have a master class given by a Russian photographer. Volunteers will organize and run an exposition on one of the last days

Accommodation:
students’ hostel (4-5 people per room)

Requirements:
- Interest in photography
- Self motivation and open-mindedness
- International English. Russian is very welcomed


6. long term projects


Center for Social Information and Development (PSI/Samara)

Project activities:
PSI Population Services International is an international non-profit non-governmental organization that has been implementing health programs using a social marketing approach for the past 30 years in over 60 countries. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C. PSI’s social marketing activities concentrate on improving reproductive health, preventing HIV/AIDS and STD infections and delivering family planning services throughout the world.
In Russia, PSI has been active since 1995 and is registered under the Fund name “Center for Social Information and Development” with the headquarters in Moscow and affiliates in Saint-Petersburg, Samara and Saratov.
PSI implemented one of the first peer education activities ranged from formal sessions for young adults at school campuses and summer camps to informal networking at concerts, nightclubs and street events where trained volunteers distribute information, education and communication (IEC) materials and answer questions. Many peer education events target dormitories and neighborhoods with high frequencies of casual sex and drug injection as well as sites where bridge populations engaging in high risk behaviors can be reached. All peer education events employ IEC materials designed by PSI to promote healthy lifestyles and advocate abstinence, delayed sexual debut and safer sex.
In October 2003, PSI began a drug demand reduction (DDR) campaign called Zhivi of which a major component was the launching of an internet site www.zhivi.ru that aimed to actively reduce the spread of drug addiction among Russian young adults.
For more information please visit www.psi.org.

Volunteer’s tasks:
· Participation of educational campaigns
· Preparation and conducting workshops
· Distribution of informational materials
· Assistance in conducting trainings for students in schools and universities of the city
· Participation in the weekly seminars organized by PSI

Hosting situation:
Host family


Samara Regional Centre for Social Assistance to Family and Children “Semya” (“Family”)

Project activities:
In every society, children, young people and women form a group of people which is less psychologically protected from any kind of social pressure. At the same time, it’s the group of significant role in society – they accumulate the potential of the country and determine it’s future development. In Russia, difficult socio-economic background leads to the situation when victims of social disasters have no place to go.
The role of the institution of family can’t be overestimated either. Family brings children up, gives primary knowledge and orientations for them. Right planning of family life will prevent problems and misunderstandings.
With the aim of providing social, psychological, pedagogical, medical, legal help to all categories of families, women and children Regional center “Semya (Family)” was found in June, 1992. It includes 48 territorial centers “Semya (Family)”. From 1996 regional center “Semya (Family)” in its Crisis Department provides help for women and children suffering from violence, death of intimate relatives or close friends and after suicidal attempts. It also prevents young people from taking drugs and supports drug-addicted people who stopped taking drugs; prepares pregnant women and families to a child’s birth, supports young parents, bringing a child from 0 to 3 years up; provides urgent help using the phone (“telephone number of confidence”).

Volunteer’s tasks:
· Communicating with people providing them moral support
· Working in the field of applied arts (knitting, painting etc. )
· Organizing leisure time activities for clients (mass cultural and sport activities like concerts, meetings, games, dancing clubs etc.)
· Co-operation with other organizations in area where is felt common interest
· Assisting to the staff of the rehabilitation center

Hosting situation:
Host family.

Samara regional public organisation “Society “Down Syndrome”

Project activities:
In our country the diagnosis “syndrome Down” turns out to be a verdict which leads to the loss of parents in most of the cases. Nine of ten families reject their children immediately. And only five of these nine live more than one year. Only 10% of children with the Down syndrome live in families. The rest of them are grown up and educated in orphanages.
There is a wide spread opinion in the society that the disabled children are usually born in the families of alcoholics and drug addicts. That is why these families get into the zone of condemnation. The children with the Down syndrome are considered to be physically weak and impossible to educate.
Some of the families did not want to put up with this situation and decided to establish a public organisation of parents and defectologists. The mission of this organisation is to defend and realise the rights of the disabled guaranteed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
The activities of the Organisation are focused on:
defence of the disabled children’s rights
participation in elaborating the laws and other juridical acts related to the rights of the disabled
providing psychological support to the children and their families
consulting the families on the questions of the disabled children’s rights
providing information on the rehabilitation and medical treatment of the disabled children
creation of library of a specific literature
organisation of the seminars and trainings for the parents and specialists
organisation of leisure time for the disabled children.

Volunteer’s tasks:
The volunteer is supposed to participate in the activities of Samara regional public organisation “Society “Down Syndrome”, including:

- assisting the disabled children
- organisation of the leisure time for the children
- creation of different activities and workshops, such as drawing, dancing, drama, handicrafts
- organisation of a specific workshop, for example, the volunteer can tell the children about the traditions, customs, holidays and day-to-day life of his/her native country
- assistance to the staff of the organisation.

Hosting situation:
Host family.

Samara Government organisation “Centre of daily stay of elderly and handicapped people “hippotherapy”

Project activities:
Centre for daily stay of elderly and handicapped people “Hippotherapy” was founded in 2001 by the Samara regional department of social assistance. One of the main aims is a complex program of rehabilitation of handicapped people by using the method of hippotherapy. Hippotherapy is a form of remedial gymnastics using the method of therapeutic riding and psychological and medical aid as well.
The basic concern of the Centre activity is extension of the main spheres of life activity (self-service, movement, studying, work activity, communication, behavioral control).
The exercises are done in the open training ground in an urban green belt. An individual approach is used for each category of patients, therapeutic regimen is developed according to the disease the patient has and its severity, psychological testing, consultation service and psychological correction are done.
This course is available for people with any form of disability.
Centre for daily stay of elderly and handicapped people “Hippotherapy” will highly appreciate the participation of a volunteer in its activities that will allow to reach the following objectives:
Extension of possibilities to help disabled people.
Exchanging the experience between employees of “Hippotherapy” centre and volunteers in the sphere of social help.
Services provided by the international volunteer will contribute to informal education and intercultural learning.


Volunteer’s tasks:
The volunteer is supposed to participate in the activities of “Hippotherapy” centre , including:

Rub-down and feeding horses;
Assistance to the instructor in a training ground during the exercises and trainings (walk a horse, acting as a guard of a patient and a rider);
Cleaning up the territory;
Assistance to the gardener in a territory accomplishment.

Hosting situation:
Host family.