Hey!
My today’s post is about Children’s Day. Correctly to
say that we had 2 Children’s Days – the first one was in Warsaw, the second – in
Pultusk.
Zsofi and I are familiar with Helenow, a Rehabilitation
center for disabled children, from the very beginning of our EVS project – first
of all, we had a preparatory meeting there and also this place became our
“weekend shelter” (thanks to our kind volunteers we stayed there many-many
times). We knew some of children leaving there, so we were happy to say “yes”
when Sylwia suggested us to participate in a big event for children from Helenów.
Why not to do something for your friends?!
International Children’s Day (or Dzien Dziecka in polish) in
Helenow is a big event organized not only for inhabitants of the Center, every
child who comes is welcome. From the
very beginning it was clear that there will be a lot of fun for small kids – bouncy
castles, cotton candies, clowns, face-painting and workshops. At the same time
teenagers and parents were watching performances. So, everyone had own
entertainment! But some time after guys from famous polish pop-group came. Of
course, teenagers’ attention was moved to them. Everyone wanted to have star’s
autograph))
Talking about our volunteers’ role I can say that it was not
difficult, but for sure important – Armenian volunteer Arpine and I were giving
sets of food, other volunteers were taking care of some kids and made face-painting.
For Arpine and me the task didn’t take a lot of time so we had a chance to
watch a concert. And for me personally, it was also useful to see how such big
events are organized and I got some ideas for the future.
The second part of Children’s Day celebration wasn’t so wide
as first one. The next day we went to Świetlica with small creative workshop. It
was so great to know that our children are so creative and talented!
And also this
time children got familiar with Dawid, our intern, and he got familiar with
this part of our work.
Today I’ve asked myself what did I understand after these
two days? And I realized that I’ve understood why I love working with children
so much. I just love their smiles and I love that they are so sincere. I teach
them and they teach me back how to be more patient and thoughtful, and of
course how to make them smile!
Take care,
Daria
