'The Island of treasures' summer camp 2007

This year The Island of Treasures camp of social rehabilitation was held in usual form. Unusual as always are children, because each of them is full-value individuality, and during their short lives they have passed through many hard times. Most of the children in the camp are from unfortunate families, who lived in the terrible conditions and were left without parental care. Altogether 22 children are undergoing rehabilitation on the Island.

At the time when children are on the Island caregivers are working not only with them, but also with their parents, so that in the end of the camp children would have a chance to came back to rehabilitated families and to start new life. Saturday in a Parental Day in the camp – on this day all parents come to visit their children. Parents couldn’t believe that their children are washing clothes and making beds themselves, and it’s not all because it’s impossible to list everything they’ve learned on the Island.

As always its very joyful on the camp, because children have different kinds of activity – games on the water, jumping from the spring board, races on mattresses, cycle trek, archery, trampoline, swings, dodge ball, football, volleyball and others. Children have active way of living, and some of them were even treated from their sicknesses. Most of the children had never had such a joyful time in their lives. Moreover children are learning to take care of their belongings and to be disciplined.

Everyday caregivers are holding Bible lessons for children with dramas and thematic cartoons. Children are learning to value themselves, to be careful, to develop as individuality and to help others. After each lesson children are proposed different tasks to develop their creativity, because each of them has special talents, you just have to develop them.

Under rapt attention of caregivers children are developing and changing for better, they became more open, and stopped to be afraid of adults, they start to help each other. Drop by drop, day by day in life of each child a big change is being made.

In the end of summer about 15 children after rehabilitation will be taken to Father’s House Center of Social Care.