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Let's take care of children's meaningful time in the yard

You've probably heard that in the summer there is "nowhere to help children", so they spend most of their time at the computer or hanging out in the yards. However, backyard activities are not always safe, nurturing, or responsive to children's socio-emotional needs.

In the warm season, employees and volunteers of the "Mobilus kiemas" program visit Vilnius Viršuliški's courtyards and stadiums three times a week with an interactive tool full of various tasks - a mobile board - where they communicate, play, learn, and just have fun and meaningful time with children. Typically, the program team meets with more than 200 children during the season.

The aim is to provide children and teenagers with meaningful employment, establish a relationship, get to know each other, help children see, recognize their abilities, strengths, believe in themselves, see the impact of their behavior on the environment and those around them, and strengthen their self-worth and self-esteem. Socio-emotional competences are developed and strengthened: critical thinking, cultural awareness, cultural expression, creativity, communication, recognition and expression of emotions, healthy lifestyle.

This year, during the school year, it is planned to offer mobile blackboard activities for classes (increasing class concentration, improving the climate, forming the internal class culture) in the Viršuliškii and Šeškinė microdistricts of Vilnius.

Tool - the mobile board has a lot of changeable panels with different topics, you can learn to count, draw, and you can prepare an educational mobile board - about the differences between people, human rights, the topic of sex education, t/he topic of knowing and expressing emotions or something else.

Let's take care of children's meaningful time in the yards!