The
summer for the youth volunteers of Turkmenistan Red Crescent
turned out to be quite a hot one: with summer camps for vulnerable
children where plenty of volunteers train and lead groups of
25 children every day during the summer.
500 children are a part of the programme, and the volunteers
organize games and contests for them, and take them to visits
to the theatres, cinemas and parks. The children also learn
English, dancing and painting, as well as some tips on camp
life: how to make a fire; put up tents and make camp food.
The volunteers confess that sometimes it might be a bit hard:
very often the children lack parental care, and they might be
really hard to deal with. But this is the reason why it’s
important to work with them; it’s so nice to see the children
changing to the better, revealing their talents and capacities.
It is also great to see the “unmanageable children”
becoming a big friendly team who are curious to learn new, interesting
things.
10 volunteers from Ashkhabad have just graduated from school
and are the part of the summer camps.
“It’s a bit difficult to be here, yet it’s
so great!”, said one of the most active volunteers of
the camp, Maisa Bedirova. “It’s wonderful to see
the joy of the children, feel their happiness. They do need
us: it’s great when someone needs you, even if it is just
one person”.
“In the village of Abadan there was a 20 days’ camp
for the children. We organized sessions for them: some took
part in the sewing and knitting sessions, while others preferred
attending the language training. After lunch we had sports.
It was such fun,” said Bahar Rozieva, the leader of the
Goshant Youth center. “In August we will be preparing
for school; there will be drawing, modeling and English language
courses for them, and we will also repeat the school program
with them so that they’ll be ready for going to school”.
The summer is still not over, and the young volunteers are optimistic:
they believe in the importance of what they do.
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