From the 15th of October until the end of February I was involved in an organization called “little light”. This is my collaborative project since the start of October 2013 towards the end of February 2014.the Little Light Foundation is a place, where children are sent to have more support and extra lessons with their school work. It is a place where 100 families are interviewed and only the ones who really need the support and help with their children gets recruited to the little light organization. I participated in this organization together with another 5 students in my school. I came every Saturday for approximately two hours from 10 am to 12.30 pm. There were couple of times when the children were not there, hiding behind the building and trying to escape the lessons. I mainly taught them Math and English, played with the children football and sometimes created my own activities. The first time I came I was nervous because I didn't know exactly how to handle and teach the children. Also I felt that the children were really shy and embarrassed by me, as it was very hard for me to communicate with them as they tried to avoid me. I undertook a new challenge because usually I don’t have any patience to children and most of the time they dislike me. But, as they children saw me coming every Saturday they got used to me and I also started to enjoy helping them. In addition, I started to plan and initiate my own activities and the children enjoyed and were more active in my creative activities than the planned lessons with the syllabus and the curriculum for math and English. I noticed that after 20 minutes some of the children couldn't concentrate anymore, so I made activities that connect math and mainly English. The one activity which they enjoyed the most was the hang man game. This is a game where one person writes a topic and below, draws a certain number of blank boxes which represent the number of letters of a word. For example I wrote sports as a topic and 8 blank boxes and one of the children has to guess the right sport which is football. In this activity the children were so enthusiastic and creative that they could have played this game without stopping. Another game which the children really liked is the memory figure game, where they needed to match two cards with the exact color and pattern of the object. This game made them eager to win, and on the way to improve their thinking and their memory skills. I turned out the lessons to be more of a unique and adventures time, because it happened to me in their age where after 20 minutes I couldn't concentrate anymore! The main lesson I learned from volunteering in ‘Little Light’ is how to engage and make other people listen to you in awkward situations where the facilities are limited. Furthermore, every Saturday I came, I considered the ethical implications of my actions, as making those children happy and enthusiastic and let them, forget for two hours about the tough life and the poverty they live in. I also managed to work collaboratively with my group during my time in ‘little light’. For example, when the rest of the group came to paint the gate, and write the logo I took the responsibility to teach and make the children busy while they paint the gate. During my participation in the ‘little light’ foundation I developed a new skill of teaching and making children to concentrate, as well as I showed commitment and perseverance, even when the children were ignoring and running away from me, I didn't give up and I kept on trying!
All in all, being involved in the ‘Little light’ organization gave me a more open eyes to the world around me and even after CAS will end, during my adult hood I will volunteer just to make other people happy.
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