PRO VIDA, civic association, Bratislava

Amount of the grant: 27 091 €

Objective of the project: The goal of the project BUDDY is to help children raised in children’s homes to become integrated in the life of society and have independent every-day life after leaving their children’s homes.  Volunteers will be included in the project. Buddies motivate children to develop new interests, hobbies, and personal goals.

The main outputs of the project:

  • Mechanism improving the cooperation and the civic dialogue between children’s homes and state authorities, between volunteers and public, between non-governmental organisations and both applicants and partnership organisations (1 mechanism)
  • Active involvement of volunteers (40 people)
  • Involving children and young people from disadvantaged groups (40 persons)
  • Designing an educational program for young people from children’s homes (10 modules)
  • Developing methodologies of group meetings focused on personal-social development of young children (10 methodologies)
  • Creating methodology materials for spreading the BUDDY program in other regions of Slovakia (2 methodology materials)
  • Carrying out an educational campaign (there are 5 types of activities and outputs related with the campaign)


Websiteof the organization: www.tvojbuddy.sk

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