For the purpose of revealing the creative abilities of children and adolescents with special needs, their social adaptation, and rendering assistance to their parents in the upbringing of children, the BHFC together with the Center for Social Services of Primorskiy District of Odessa and the Institute of Mental Development hosted an educational program for 12 children and their parents that included:
- a tour around the BHFC with a kind of quest for resourcefulness and memorization and visit to the exhibition of children’s artworks;
- a master class on the method of puppet-therapy ( making of magpie puppets, the forerunners of Spring) under the direction of a trainer from the Institute of Mental Health NGO;
- giving to the children gifts of the hand-made magpie puppets and the BHFC’s albums of children’s pictures “Greece through the eyes of children”.
The project was hosted by G. Izuvita, V. Suntsov, L. Gerashchenko and M. Fetisova.