TSPU VOLUNTEERS ARE INVOLVED IN THE "TOUCH" PROJECT

The volunteer team "Point of View" of the TSPU has been actively cooperating with the Children's Charitable Foundation named after Alena Petrova. Our volunteers have participsted in many projects, including "Open Yourself", "Mom's Pies" and the "Touch" program, the work on which started again this academic year.

Within the scope of the "Touch" project, the TSPU volunteers visit the foundation once a week to provide pupils with an interesting and useful activities, relieve the psychological stress of children: they conduct educational games for them, read fairy tales, and make craftwork together.

More than three hundred families with gravely ill children live in the Tomsk region. Caring for a special kids requires a huge amount of resources that are not easy to recover. The purpose of the "Touch" project is psychological and emotional assistance to parents of seriously ill children. While parents are working with specialists, the volunteers from the TSPU's "Point of View" detachment and a psychologist are working with their children. The activist Anastasia Pavlyuchenko told about her experience in this project:

“Volunteers organize workshops, help children to complete tasks. But the main activity is games. Most often, it turns out that one child gets one volunteer companion. Fortunately, there are countless toys in the Center, so children won't get bored and wander around”.

Work in the fund requires absolute dedication from volunteers, however, the students themselves note that for them this work is a kind of way to refresh and "relieve their feelings." In addition, cooperation with the Foundation helps the members of the "Point of View" accumulate the necessary experience for further fruitful work with the children that require palliative assistance.