TWI
for the Children's
Learning
Center for Special Needs Children
"Goals and Activities"
Learning
Center:
PURPOSE
The Learning Center for Children with
Special Needs in Sarajevo is designed to teach children and
their parents how to overcome disability and become active, useful members
of their communities.
In the summer of 2002, TWI was approached by several
mothers of special needs children in Sarajevo with a need to begin a
"Learning Center " for their children with special needs.
In November 2002, these hard working ladies opened the Learning Center at a local school in Sarajevo.
Leadership
LEARNING
Since November 2002, the "Learning
Center"
(1) successfully obtained a location, registered as a non-profit organization;
(2) obtained equipment for the learning center; and,
(3) provided much needed instruction for the children with special
needs.
Making new friends
The " Learning Center"
provides a new and much needed place for children with special needs
to meet new friends and socialize among their peers.
MEETING OTHERS
TRANSPORTATION AND ASSISTANCE
Transportation to the Center
TWI for the Children
provided needed transportation for the children and their families to
and from the "Learning Center" during the first year of
operation. Currently, the Learning Center uses the TWI van for travel
to events and activities.
TWI for the Children evaluated the "Learning Center" and determined that :
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the needs of the special needs children and their families were being met.
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the Center was beginning to be self-sufficient. (In 2005, the Center rented two additional rooms and hired additional staff.)
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The manner in which the leaders moved forward on their own to find a location, become registered with the government, and organize a curriculum for the learning center showed that they were making the Center a success.
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In 2007, the Learning Center was well within budget and hosting students on a daily basis.
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The Learning Center is a priority project for TWI for the Children and will be funded to the maximum extent possible.
TWI
provides financial assistance and advice.
Evaluation
Success
Our
Bosnian partners wrote that: -- " the children have enjoyed
themselves so much at the Learning Center that they just hated to
leave at the end of the day".
More
Information: Read
about our work in 2002 to provide a day in the park and to begin a
camp for children with special needs.
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Updated: 04/18/2008