We started the online
volunteering on 17th March, eleven weeks ago. Neither of us thought it actually
could bound us with the kids this deeply. We have prepared our activities every
Monday, to become more efficient and raise awareness of the children and their
capabilities. Afterwards, we had activities every Thursday and Friday. Due to
differences in activities and not boring the children, we planned them
according to demand, and we did two activities each day, respectively. It was
also essential to provide their activities in order to create an interactive
way of learning. 29th May is the International Day of UN Peacekeepers.
Therefore, for the 11th week, we decided to have activities related to peace.
On Thursday, our Romanian student
Anca prepared a handcraft activity on how to make flowers from paper. It was
quite difficult for other participants, whereas doing handcraft activity is
harder online while watching someone doing from the screen. Even though it was
hard, our participants didn’t give up and gave all their attention to success.
In the end, we had very nice results as it is shown below on the photos. Ecem
organized the following activity on Thursday, and it was making a paper dove from
origami. Again the only difficulty we had there was the due to screen and
handcraft. However, the participants liked doing the origami dove. After the
origami, they prepared a little poster of what they understand byword ‘peace’.
The next day, we had two more
activities that were related to peace again. Rym coordinated the first
activity, which was ‘draw your symbol of peace’. During this activity, we used
white and colourful papers to make an emoji or a symbol of peace. Even though
we had the original symbol of peace, we wanted them to use their imagination,
inspire from their environment and create their own symbol. After the symbol,
the participants wrote their thoughts and description about what peace meant to
them. The second activity was from Povilas, ‘tree of peace’. In this activity,
participants created trees out of their handprints. After drawing a tree of
peace, he asked participants about their opinions on peace and the necessity of
it. Some of the participants preferred to draw, and others preferred to write
their own thoughts. Last activity of Friday was supposed to be the Romanian
dance, but our Romanian participant was not feeling good. Therefore, that
activity has been suspended to next week.
Nowadays, the world is going the
direction of hate, and everything that is not related to peace at all. The
dominance of hate and discrimination is getting bigger above all the values we
have so far. Peace, equality and respect are the values that we care/should
care about the most. Everyone comes to the world with pure love and peace in
their hearts. It is the society and the environment that has a massive effect
on darkening these hearts. Therefore, this week we wanted to pay attention to
peace and reminding everyone how important to have peace in both our hearts and
lives.
Gul Ecem Cam – volunteer in
the project BCV - Building communities through volunteering - funded by ERASMUS
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