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Scout Society
Scout Society is an organisation founded in 2011 with the primary goal of educating young people through non-formal education in order to become active citizens in their local communities. Also in the last 5 years, Scout Society started working with adult population, designing especially activities for them. The organization have around 10 board members and more than 20 active volunteers and 80 members.
Members of the organization have extended experience in working with NGOs, averaging 8 years of volunteering experience with the local, national and international NGOs.
Scout Society members developed abilities and gained experience as youth workers, project coordinators, facilitators, logistics management, project writters, photographers, video editors, lobby&advocacy, marketer.
The organisation is constantly working using non-formal methods and promoting multiculturalism and the European principles of democracy, freedom of expression and human rights. With adults from disadvantage backgrounds, Scout Society is working to develop their skills on a continous basis and integrate tem better in the community.
One of the objectives of the organisation is to reach and positively influence as many people from local, national and international communities.
Scout society started working with people with intellectual disabilities several years ago. Last year the organization has concluded a collaboration partnership with the Community Services Complex for the Child with Special Needs Targu-Jiu, within the General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection Gorj – the formal organisation of the Government dealing with people with intellectual disabilities.
Thus, youth workers from Scout Society in partnership with the experts of the center have organized different sport and physical activities for young people with intellectual disabilities. The frequency of these activities was at least two per month. Among the main activities organized, aside from sport, there were integration activities through games, but also cognitive exercises, development of employability skills (courses for the drafting of CVs, simulation of participating in an interview, tools for job search, training on the use of the computer). The groups of people with intellectual disabilities with whom the organization works usually do not exceed a number of 10 people because it is very important for each person to obtain a result, and this can only be achieved through a lot of work. Initially, the people with intellectual disabilities from the youth center were more reluctant over the activities, but later a connection was established between them and the youth workers within the organization. Important activities were also those where the young people learned to do different handmade things that through the support offered by the association. These little handmade crafts had the possibility to be sold to different occasions such as Martisor, Christmas and Easter. In conclusion, Scout Society is providing services for people with intellectual disabilities under close connection and supervision from experts from General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection Gorj.
Contact
SCOUT SOCIETY – Romania
Str. Traian, Bl. 9, Sc.1, Et.1, Ap.2, Tg-Jiu, Gorj, Romania
Non For Profit Cultural and Sport Organization
+40 769 645 994
+40 726 419 489