We have recently launched a new project for the children of the Garmonia Multidisciplinary Educational and Rehabilitation Center “Wings of Joy”. 

Children with congenital and acquired disorders of the musculoskeletal system and other psychophysical disabilities study at this center. This year, the center has about 80 students of different ages, social status (many of them are orphans or half-orphans, children and teenagers from low-income families or families in very difficult life circumstances) and disabilities of varying severity. 
We want to organize leisure activities for these children and teenagers outside their center every week, namely on Mondays. We are motivated by the fact that many of the children in the center live there, and those who are picked up by their parents never go anywhere but home and their school. Therefore, leisure time somewhere other than the center is a special blessing for them, which we cannot fully understand. In addition, we plan to show them something that no one may have shown them in their lifetime and give them emotions they do not know.

     

We understand the many challenges we will face in implementing this project and are looking for solutions to each of them. Our first challenge is to have sufficiently spacious and multi-purpose transportation. To transport these children and adolescents with special needs, we need a passenger bus with 18 seats, with plenty of room for luggage, so that we can easily deliver the children and adolescents of the center with special needs to all planned leisure activities and return them back to the center. 

We plan to find a vehicle that is spacious and comfortable enough for this project and adapt it to all the necessary requirements for these children and teenagers with special needs (transportation of wheelchairs, which some of the students of this institution use).

On a regular basis, every Monday, after the school day and all rehabilitation and recreational procedures, we want to take a certain number (currently 9 students, with plans to take up to 20 students) of the children from this institution to organize their leisure time. The list of planned activities for these children and teenagers with special needs includes art therapy sessions at our Talent Development Academy, swimming sessions, visits to the zoo, cinema visits, walks and outings, etc.