By Adi Salcinovic | Project Coordinator
BOSANA FOUNDATION
After School Program Report
April – June 2017
Number of volunteer instructors:21
Average number of beneficiaries:62
Number of workshops held:4 times a week for three hours
Type of classes held:Intro to Math, English, German, Bosnian, physics, chemistry, Agro & Eco math and extracarricular activities like a handicrafts, jewlery making, information tehnology.
Program Summary:
During this reporting period, the instructions were geared towards helping student prepare for the end of the school year exams while also providing some fun extracurricular activities to balance the stressful period. The attendance was higher than usual as expected due to exams so this posted a bit of a problem managing all students; however, the results were very good based on students grades.
Instructive lessons
During the month of April, May and June there was a great interest from the beneficiaries for the afterschool program. In total, 62 beneficiaries attended our classes that had issues with mathematics, commercial mathematics, physics, chemistry and the English and Turkish language. Afterschool classes were attended by 33 elementary school children, 22 high school children and 5 students. It is a great achievement to see students, whom you have helped and taught successfully, finish a 4-year high school and enter college. These students learn and transfer their knowledge to other children and help them. Positive examples are Irma C. and Dzenita K. who have finished their high schools last year and enrolled in the Philosophical faculty. Irma enrolled the Turkish Language and Literature Department and Dzenita the English Language and Literature Department. They passed all their exams by July, passed all their partial exams on time and, at the same time when we were teaching them, they helped and taught other younger participants. Irma had minor difficulties in studying for the Turkish language exams but we had an instructor helping her so she overcame these difficulties very quickly. Dzenita had minor difficulties with Phonetics and Phonology of the English Language, but with practice and studying together with our instructor she overcame these difficulties. It necessary to point out that during these three month of after school classes beneficiaries, especially high school students, were very interested in learning and they sought to receive as much tutoring as possible.
Creative Workshops, IT Education and Young People's Activism
Our beneficiaries from the orphanage, within the Afterschool Program also had the chance to attend our educational and creative workshops..
The most interest was shown for the Drawing on Film workshop, which is a very inspirational and creative workshop. About 20 girls participated in the workshop from April to June who were able to express their creativity. The girls mastered the drawing on film technique from a professional artist with five years of experience with this technique. The girls made two pieces of art for themselves. In addition to the Drawing on Film workshop, 17 girls participated in the decoupage workshop where they expressed their creativity and made a few excellent pieces of art.
Participants interested in the IT sector had a chance to show their capabilities and learn something new in IT by having the chance to learn basic programming in HTML and Java.
The results are apparent and a few of them have created their own basic website in HTML.
In addition to the aforementioned activities, children and young people from the orphanage had the chance to participate in English, German and Turkish language courses led by college students and graduates of the Philosophical faculty of Zenica within this program during the months of April, May and June.
In addition to these workshops we also organized workshops on the topic of youth endorsement, activism and social responsibilities. The topics of those workshops are located in the attachment:
Get to know each other: The workshop would include working on having respect for others and oneself and teamwork. It would be achieved through several games where young people may participate in a fun ways and contemplate about respecting themselves and others.
Where to: The aim is to acquire valuable information about what is important to achieve one's goals, why sometimes we are unsuccessful and how to turn the situation in your favor. There is no magic wand and the road to success is neither easy nor fast and with proper coordination the participant of this workshop will reach their goals.
How to learn without pain: The workshop is laid out to allow all young people to analyze their learning styles, to find out which suits them best and allows their learning to be the most effective. The aim is to teach them the basics of learning and present them with a mass of useful information on the learning process.
Twenty-five young people participated in these three workshops after which they broadened their knowledge and views and were very satisfied with such a form of education.
Entertainment, Meet-ups and Performances for Holidays
Apart from the afterschool program, educational and creative workshops, we also enabled participants from the orphanage to entertain themselves and have fun.
In the month of April we organized two meet-ups for children at 'Kamberovica polje' park where we played basketball and football with them. And we also went to the mountain camp site 'Smetovi' during one weekend. The 1st of May was special in that we invited all those children and young ones who had no family to spend the holiday with to spend the day with us grilling and entertaining ourselves.
In the month of June we organized a large fast breaking for those who fasted during the month of Ramadan. They said that they had great fun and that they were glad to be invited to break fasting with us, because they enjoy the homemade food and the beautiful atmosphere. After Ramadan we celebrated with the children on the 2nd day of Bayram where we organized a meet-up with appropriate music and karaoke, pastry and many educational games. The children and young people are very satisfied with this project and activities and they say that if it weren't there they would have quite a few difficulties in learning and navigating through life.
Achievements in these months:
Plans for the future month:
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