Venue: Samara, Russia Involved Volunteers: 1 Activity Duration: 6 months Hosting Organization: Down Syndrom Association, Russia Sending Organizations: Grenzenlos – interkultureller Austausch, Austria Involved Volunteers: Hannah Riedler Hannah Rielder was involved in the kindergarden of the society “Down syndrome. The staff of the kindergarten consists of 40 people. Nineteen of these forty are pedagogues. The volunteer worked together with the workers of the kindergarten. The target group of the kindergarten are children with and without Down syndrome. Hannah was mostly involved in the work with the little children. She helped to look after the children during meals, outdoors activities, sleep. Then she assisted to the staff doing technical things like cleaning, putting the toys in order, assisted during classes of reading, handicrafts and music. The project was part of the MELANGE program, the EVS programme in Vienna strongly supported by the city of Vienna/wienXtra where Grenzenlos set up networks for volunteers and international partners and host partners and volunteers receive special support before during and after their EVS.