The organisation collaborates with individual volunteers to achieve the following objectives: • International volunteers work with the organisation to help establishing international contacts and sharing knowledge about disability-related to issues in other countries • The services that international volunteers provide to disabled people will contribute to their informal education and intercultural learning and to forming their moral values • The volunteer’s activity will be of great importance in assisting families that bring up disabled children • His/her involvement in the activities of the Organisation will promote the idea of volunteerism in the social field among (young) people in the Samara Region which will hopefully result in inspiring them to do voluntary work in the Organisation, the organisation’s staff includes 2 people aged 35-40 The “support service for disabled children” was planned by “Parus Nadezhdy” long ago but could not be implemented without volunteers’ help. Disabled children do not have the opportunity to communicate with each other or attend the organisation’s activities without the support of a volunteer from “ParusNadezhdy”. Very often these children have to stay at home alone, isolated from society, while their parents are working. Visiting these children, organizing their leisure time, involving them into the organisation’s activities, giving them physical and moral support are the main goals of a volunteer. Parus Nadezhdy will host one volunteer within this project and is mainly interested in hosting people who are interested to work with disabled people. The theme of the project is one of the most difficult and demanding because working with people with fewer opportunities and special needs is not easy. Volunteers should have at least some prior experience with disabled people and even personal experience helps a lot. Being positive and open-minded as well as being ready to do a lot of routine and physically hard work. This requires a lot of patience and tolerance. Regarding to this the volunteer will learn about life for disabled people in Russia. All the organisations in our city are in close cooperation with each other which are mostly NGOs. Their staff founded those organisations many years ago to support disabled children of our region and to improve their lives. The volunteer will get to know all of those organisations and what they do to fight for disabled people’s rights and to promote an inclusive program which is new to our country. He/she will obtain practical skills like taking care of disabled children, assisting them during meals and walks, organising day-to-day activities for them. Routine work with the disabled will teach the volunteer social skills such as being tolerant and patient, attentive and responsible. The volunteer will have the opportunity to share his/her experiences and impressions with other volunteers during regular meetings, when preparing a traditional film about volunteers in Samara and during “information meetings” with local young volunteers. This particular project will give EVS volunteers the opportunity to learn a lot about their host country’s culture, traditions and way of life, as well as to share their own. Through investigating new approaches to work with disabled children – without perfect knowledge of the language – as well as through representing another culture, volunteers will be also able to discover things about themselves that they never knew before. Likewise, they will be able to compare their own culture with the Russian and they will be able to learn about those different types of culture. Because volunteers work in local families, they will experience the local inner life that is in other circumstances never shown to foreigners.