Title - Local workshops to raise awareness towards persons with visual impairments

Implementing organization - Ofensiva Tinerilor through their European Voluntary Service Volunteers, for the last two years, implements the activity regularly in local schools from Arad, Romania.

For further information on this activity please use the organisations Facebook and their contact details that can be found on the page.

https://www.facebook.com/OfensivaTinerilorArad/

Target group - The workshops are usually organised by our EVS volunteers for pupils from 8 to 18 years old. The methods used during the workshops are adapted to the age of the participants.

Short description, incl reliable theoretical background - The workshops are usually organised by our volunteers in order to raise awareness towards persons with visual impairments from our community. Citizens are able to help, stand up for a cause and get involved as long as they are educated and informed toward the topic. This is why we decided to organise workshops with pupils, for them to be able to get to know and put themselves in the shoes of a person with visual impairments.

Our target group is pupils and youngsters who are between 8 and 18 years old.

At this time the workshops are organised in the schools of Arad county in Romania.

The workshops consist of 1 to 3 different one-hour activities with the participants (depending on how much time each class/teacher would like to invest in awareness training activities for their pupils).