Supporting children in care:

Through the Do Good Things programme, our Foundation’s professionals, with the help of volunteers, visit children’s homes across the country and provide a variety of sports, community and cultural activities for the children living there. Our primary aim is to promote the integration of children and young people in difficult circumstances and to strengthen their integration into the wider society. In addition to visiting the children’s homes, we regularly organise extracurricular activities for the children, where they can gain new impulses and experiences, build new relationships and get out of their own environment. For example: theatre, concerts, sightseeing, sports activities (water polo, running, football, etc.), day trips, excursions, festive trips.

The aim of the programme is to help the children spend time in the children’s homes, to create a family atmosphere, to motivate them and to establish contacts with families and children from other socio-cultural backgrounds. Sport and healthy lifestyle education is a key element of the programme. To achieve this, and to emphasise the community-building potential of sport, we organise running and other sporting activities (e.g. cycling, swimming, triathlon) at each of our new sites.

The programme encourages social inclusion, increases awareness, and welcomes people from diverse social backgrounds. It also promotes the active involvement of beneficiaries, volunteers, institutions, and external organisations, which adds value to Europe. Furthermore, the activities will follow the guidelines specified in the EU Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Child.

What can the volunteers do?

• • Through individual volunteering, participants are directly involved in activities that help children and young people in care.
  • Individual volunteers receive a comprehensive and detailed training/training programme. This means that individual volunteering includes training sessions and workshops to prepare them for specific programmes, situations and experiences.
  • After the preparatory training, it is possible to join each programme at a pre-arranged time. In this programme, we organise all-day activities (cooking, arts&crafts, sports programmes) and everyone can participate in what they feel best. We usually organise one-day programmes during the year, but during school holidays we also organise camps lasting several days or weeks.
  • In addition, individual volunteers can share their own experiences and expertise with different stakeholders by participating in various dissemination activities (events, communication).