The organization "Volunteers for children", which runs the emotional support program "Together", aims to draw attention to the emotional well-being of those raising minor children and experiencing difficulties, and to help them survive a difficult phase of life or the feeling of loneliness.
The program "Together" is based on the principle of friendship, when a volunteer meets a program participant once a week and spends time together, talks, and looks for possible solutions to problems. Conversations and various activities aim to show the participants of the program how important it is to take care of your emotional well-being, to respond to your needs and not push it aside.
In order for volunteers to be able to help people who are going through a difficult stage of life, they must feel a strong emotional foundation under their feet, receive emotional support themselves and have psychological knowledge. Program coordinators and psychologists take care of this, and volunteers participating in the program are carefully selected and trained according to a special training program of the organization. For persons who need emotional support, volunteers are selected taking into account their expectations, wishes, set goals of the program, personal qualities, hobbies, profession and life experience.
A person going through a difficult stage of life and a volunteer can achieve different goals during the program, for example:
• strengthen self-confidence;
• provide emotional support;
• strengthen social integration;
• help discover yourself, your interests;
• share the experience of motherhood or parenthood;
• to look for solutions to specific problems together.
During the period of two years of activity, we managed to convince ourselves of the power of attention to another person. After establishing friendships with volunteers, the program participants began to gain more self-confidence, received encouragement at times of need, discovered new interests, and acquired social skills. Sincere conversation, attention, and spending time together helped build strong friendships that changed people's lives.
Let's work together so that no person remains alone!
