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Introduction

The last day of September eight (ex)volunteers, Marija, Nataljia, Georgina, Pascal, Ildefonso, Rafa, Giorgi, Kathi and Natasza from IB Polska office visited and supported the Farmer`s Day (Dzień Farmera) at the Farm of Life in the village Więckowice. The farm is a home for people who suffer from autism – the only one in Poland. We were a pretty multiculti and balanced group of volunteers, representing seven different countries which are Spain, Serbia, Romania, Macedonia, Germany, Georgia and last but not least Poland. Together we supported some activities for children and enjoyed the delicious traditional Polish food.

Chapter I – The Welcoming

For us the day started at Nowy Kleparz at 10 am. By public transport we travelled to the village Więckowice and the head of Farma życia welcomed us and showed us around the places. Everywhere people were busy preparing things for their stand of marmelade, honey, self-made porcelain-sculptures, cake as well as a barbecue. Soon the event was oficially opened and more and more people and visitors came. We prepared big papers for a game for children, it was supposed to become a print made out of human hands. We also ate a lot because we could try all the food such as sausages, salads, different cakesand coffee and tea for free.

Chapter 2 – The Mini-Run

After two concerts we started to prepare seven stations for the Mini-Run as a challenge for chidren, but not only for children – everyone was invited to try the run. 1st station – boule game, 2nd station – throwing a medicine ball as far as possible, 3rd station – throwing a basket ball into a bucket, 4th station – slalom-jumping race in sacks, 5th station – throwing small soft-balls into rings, 6th station – parcours on the playground and last station – painting the big paper with hands and feet prints (It was a lot of fun for the children to run over the paper with bare, painted feet) and also for us it was a great peasure to see the development of the print, not knowing how it will look like exactely in the end. Especially the small children enjoyed the fast games such as jumpin-race in sacks and parcours on the playground. Some of th autistic people didn`t like that so much honesty, but really enjoyed thowing small soft-balls into the rings. Pani Gea was also very happy to paint the hair of the children.

Chapter 3 – Human Print and Reward

After a while the children had enough of the games and we finished it. We became also a part of the human print and Natasza painted our hands in different colours. Fortunately we even had some time to explore other attractions such as horse riding, horse carriage riding, fire truck and a huge bouncy castle. The time was come to reward the chidren for their hard work and they received a certificate of participation as well as bags with some small prices and gadgets. We volunteers enjoyed the day and the sunny weather with fresh air in the countryside and would like to visit the farm again.

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photography by

Marija

(EVS volunteer)

Pascal

(EVS volunteer)

Giorgi

(EVS volunteer)

Nataljia

(EVS volunteer)

article by Katharina Becker

(EVS volunteer)

The European Voluntary Service project is organised within the framework of Erasmus+ KA1 and financed by European Commission.

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