83. Social Work
Regio
Granada
Periode
Available
Duur
Min. 1 month
Omschrijving
Internship organisation - daycare for handicapped people
This recently opened day-care centre for handicapped people in Granada is taking it’s work seriously. Under the supervision and care of the Spanish director, who has her degree in Special education (Spanish and English speaking), a dedicated team is working hard to Granada’s special needs children and adults to give them the attention they need and deserve.
Out of the statistical 400 handicapped people Granada should count, only 40 of them attends to the special care of Los Popitos. So, 360 handicapped persons are not reached yet and probably a lot of them are put away in a shed to not to embarrass their families.
To reach more handicapped people they providing free lunches and have strict communication with the healthcare department to find/located the handicapped citizens.
They use best-practice methods and activities from Europe adjusted to the Nicaraguan culture and climate.
mission/ vision:
Handicapped people need and deserve special attention and care.
The center accept people with all kinds op handicaps: severe, mild, multiple, old, young, mentally, physical.
The aim is to strive to have attendants of handicapped people in order to develop themselves as much as possible.
The center wants to reach more handicapped people and get them into the special day-care.
The center want to sensibilise the Granadino population to accept and respect people with a handicap much more.
internship assignment
As you can read still a lot needs to be done. Therefore you are almost free to write your own assignment which will be evaluated by the centre. Are you able and willing to develop new activity-programs which help the attendants to be more independent? (ontwerpen van programma’s en versterken van de client) can you observe attendants and make them a personal development plan? (ontwerpen van programma’s , verantwoorden van handelen, signaleren en initieren, hanteren van de relatie)
Do you know how to help to support the families to accept their handicapped family-member in a better way? Do you know to help handicapped people express their emotions/feelings?
If you can do any of this or can propose an assignment yourself, you’re very welcome to have your internship here!
Housing
You can live in Granada in a studenthome. You will have an independentroom in the city center.
Are you interested?
Please contact onstagenicaragua@gmail.com
To be clear: On-Stage-Nicaragua provides suitable internships for many different carreers. Aside of the internships offered we also have a broad spectrum of other possibilities.