HSE volunteers together with the HSE Theatre have held a New Year event for the children and grandchildren of the university staff and students of the ‘Pokrovsky Kvartal’ school, where children with disabilities also study.
The ‘The Elf Workshop’ was crowd!: children and volunteers work! hard to create gifts and cards for relatives and friends, paint! t-shirts, made toys out of candy and exclusive Christmas caps. For one night the HSE Cultural Centre on Pokrovsky Boulevard turn! into Father Frost’s workshop.
‘Today were working in two shifts
First, we held an event for children from three to six years, now we celebrate the New Year with those who are older, from six to eleven years. We have prepar! different programmes for different ages. The kids love all of it! The younger ones felt very happy after the celebration and a bit upset that the event had come to an end,’ says Anastasia Nemykina, coordinator of the volunteer association ‘Open Your Eyes’”.
Over 150 children took part in the event. Gennady, a why your audience will never tell you what they want student of the ‘Pokrovsky Kvartal’ school, was among them. The 14-year-old boy was taking part in the HSE celebration for the second time: ‘I like everything here! The main thing is to have fun, as the New Year is a fun holiday.’
Anastasia Gorbunova a teacher at ‘Pokrovsky Kvartal
school, says that this type of inclusive activities are online marketing and customer contact important for all children regardless of their condition: ‘First of all it is very useful not only for our students but for agb directory those who do not have serious health problems, so they can see that children with disabilities are no different from them: everyone is playing, everyone is having fun, there’s no difference between us.”
Photo: Anastasia Gorbunova and 6-th grade students of the ‘Pokrovsky Kvartal’ school
In addition to master classes, there were also sweets, games with animators, dancing and, of course, a fabulous show bas! on the popular cartoon ‘Frozen’ for HSE young guests.
