We have decided to start this quarterly newsletter to tell you what is happening at our Almaty Center and to involve you as much as possible in our activities.
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New collaboration
At the beginning of February we had a project launch in 7th grade. We prepared for it for a long time and thought through how to organize everything. This happens when you see all the components of something separately, but it’s not immediately clear how to put it all together organically.
Our project is tripartite. High Tech Academy + ISKU + MASP. ISKU - an international furniture concern, a leader in the field of modern technology, quality and industrial innovation, founded in 1928 in Finland. IASP - International Association of Social Projects - is a non-profit organization created on the initiative of young people from Italy and Kazakhstan working in the social sphere in 2002. Every day, IASP carries out a huge amount of work on socialization, rehabilitation, career guidance and education of children with special needs.
📌 What is the essence of the challenge for students this time: it is necessary to develop a design of a learning space for the active learning of children with special needs.
In order to mentally prepare our children for this important task, we decided to invite them at the first stage to independently develop and conduct a series of master classes for children attending IASP. This allowed them to get to know their target audience better and see premises that could be upgraded in the future. The main advantage of this project is the opportunity to implement the best ideas of students with funding from High Tech Academy and ISKU for MASP. And this is very significant and inspiring for all of us - those who are involved in the implementation and work on this project in general.
I really like the approach - PBL (Project - Based Learning), I see the future behind it, I really believe that the skills that the guys will gain in the process of working with projects are something that they will definitely need in life tomorrow.
A story
Arai
Our seamstress-cutter Arai first came to our center at the age of 8 thanks to the “Support at a Distance” project. Mama Arai came from the village in search of work and a better life. They lived in a dormitory, where Arai often remained alone while her mother worked. Since Arai had hearing problems from birth, our teacher Nazgul helped her mother enroll Arai in a boarding school for deaf and mute children, where she spent the entire week, except for weekends. Arai also received a hearing aid as part of support from the state, which significantly affected her growth and development. After graduating from school, Arai decided to go to college and acquire a profession as a seamstress. During this period, we often saw Arai, she visited our Center, shared her successes, we, in turn, helped her in purchasing travel tickets, office supplies, etc. After completing her training, Arai also took courses at our Center and subsequently began working with us. Now Arai has a family, two children. The eldest daughter is in first grade, the youngest attends kindergarten.
Gradually, Arai found her own personality and is now able to create creative designs for new clothes and bags, as well as perform technical tasks such as cutting and sewing. Her work is very important to our center, and we always try to support her, even in moments of greatest difficulty. Arai has shown herself to be not only an excellent seamstress, but is also making progress in teaching sewing skills, interning college students doing internships with us, as well as girls with special needs studying with us. We wish you good luck and success to Arai!
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