Vasiliki Bogdou was a long-term volunteer in Matera at the hosting NGO Il Beccogiallo, working with children from kindergarten, primary and middle school. During her months in Matera she focused on the creation of a PERSONAL PROJECT, called IL LIBRO DELLA FANTASIA.
Vasiliki took the chance to put into practice many of her skills and knowledge, gain from the professional staff of Il Beccogiallo who work since decades with children from different kind of families and conclude all of this inside this booklet, as she explains:
Il libro della fantasia (“The book of imagination”) is an educational book – tool that really travels! The journey of this book began in 1973, when Gianni Rodari, a famous Italian writer, educator and journalist wrote the book “La Grammatica Della Fantasia” (“The grammar of imagination”).….
Read here the complete document and feel inspired:
Vasiliki has been hosted Matera for the European Solidarity Corps thanks to the financing of the Italian National Agency, under the project Solidarity Overcomes Solitude, project nr. 2020-2-IT03-ESC13-018824.
As she mentions in her article, she would like to thank all the children and staff of Il Beccogiallo as well as the people of Matera that welcomed and supported her during this amazing journey.
Read more about Vasilikis journey here: https://humancapital2019.wordpress.com/2022/05/24/children-know-well-that/
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