In
July 2014, the Charity Centre for Refugees, an implementing partner of UNHCR
Moldova, gave start to the Summer School for refugee/asylum seeker children. This
initiative aims to expand speech and Arabic language skills, to inspire and
motivate towards creativity, art, music, history, multicultural background.
Every
Tuesday and Thursday, refugee/asylum seeker children have a programme with
diverse activities. The day of the Summer School starts at 10 a.m. in the
morning with Arabic language lessons given by Mrs. Amalid Karim, a refugee who
worked as a teacher at primary and secondary school in Iraq. These lessons seek
to boost the level of Arabic language in written and oral forms. But the most
important is to help children not to forget their mother tongue, because may be
one day they will have opportunity to return back to the country they were
forced to leave. Besides that, children enjoy studying music taught by Mrs.
Dima Deiri, a refugee from Syria. While participating in music activities,
children are enhancing language and social-emotional development and increasing
musical skills and knowledge.
With
the help of local and EVS volunteers, refugee/asylum seeker children have
art lessons, where they express inspiration and creativity. During art
activities, children make greeting cards, paint ‘mandalas’, create towns in 3D
format, etc. Moreover, children and their parents have opportunity to watch
films, cartoons or play different games. CCR is happy to see that children have
fun creating and learning new things together at the Summer School. The School day ends with some refreshments.
