The Annabella Kindergarten

  Romania

Cluj-Napoca

Duration of Program: 3-6 months
Typical Duration of Program: 3-6 months
Dates: September to July

Description: Integrating underprivileged children in a modern, save preschool community with the aim of preparing them for the multicultural social life. The Annabella Kindergarten applies a new method of teaching, based on imaginative education. The social philosophy of the kindergarten thrives to integrate abandoned, orphaned and poor children in a community where they are not discriminated, and where they are prepared to face life with a better self-esteem.

Highlights: Pleasant, calm atmosphere, children are offering a lot of love, and they show immediate results from teaching.

Qualifications: Student in education, degree in education. Seriousness, love of working for and with children, openness to new educational strategies, creativity.

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: Serious, creative, open to new ways of education, emotionally involved in the work.

Age Range: 20-55

This Program is open to American, Australian, Canadian and European Participants. This Program is also open to Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to Romania Independently Or in Groups

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Letters of Reference
• Resume

Post Services Include:

• Job and Internship Network

Foundation Wonderland- The Annabella Kindergarten's Mission Statement: The main goals of the organization are as follows: - To establish and maintain intercultural schools where modern education is offered to Romanian children coming from all social categories (with special attention to socially and materially underprivileged children). - To help emotionally disturbed children become conscious of their own value from both an individual and social point of view, in order to build a strong trust in their own beliefs and powers. The social philosophy of Foundation Wonderland can be defined by three concepts: multi-social, inter-ethnic, and humanitarian. These three main concepts are at the core of all Foundation Wonderlands projects. Through them Foundation Wonderland is working to prevent discrimination, school withdrawal to abandonment, emotional distress and low self-esteem in children in Romania.

Year Founded: 1999