AIMS

· To include children from socially vulnerable families and children who may have special needs and who live in residential institutions more directly in their local communities. · To involve children with social difficulties, teachers, students and other volunteers on a collaborative project. · To achieve this inclusion and involvement by the engagement of all concerned in an educational programme of activities designed to promote more fully, amongst other things, social integration. · To introduce students to the practical organisation and implementation of a Community Action Programme in order to assist in the further educational development of these disadvantaged children. To encourage students to commit themselves to working with disadvantaged children not only throughout the Community Action Pilot Schools Scheme but also thereafter in order to sustain this process of social integration and educational development.
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