Educational Socializing with JVP Zagreb firefighters: ‘I learned to extinguish fire’
It was best for me when the firefighter climbed high and waved from the ladder. Vela Strice firefighters are as high as 32 meters high! It’s really a great day to me today, an excited boy Semi (5) told us Home for Children Nazorova, thinking of car ladders. On Wednesday morning on Savska 1, Zagreb Firefighters of the JVP They welcomed more than 10 associations dealing with children from endangered groups on social margins. .
Zagreb: Children from the Adonis Association visited firefighters in Savska |
More than 140 children of marked faces were eagerly awaiting the start of the program « We can be firefighters too. »
– Nice to see you all here! We will show you red trucks, we will extinguish the fire a little and we have a workshop for you – Sinisa Jembrih, the commander of the JVP Zagreb, also welcomed all the assembled Sinisa Jembrih and sent children and educators to the plan of today’s program.
Firefighters readily accepted the role of educators and, each at their work station, was ready to welcome groups of children who toured the capacity of the fire station and became acquainted with the work and role of the firefighter. They had the opportunity to meet and hang out with demanding dogs Jerry and Lex and watched the exercises carefully that the firefighter Matea presented the significant role of the dog in the rescue and the search for the injured in the fire.
In addition to the careful observation and asking questions, the children could also adhere to the fire hoses on their own on a makeshift training ground for extinguishing precision that was particularly impressed by them.
Zagreb: Children from the Adonis Association visited firefighters in Savska |
– I was best extinguished by fire, I really liked it. I think I learned to extinguish the fire – Ibris told us (6), who, after extinguishing, raised to a fire truck, where the firefighter explained the function of fire truck equipment and answered with colleagues to many questions of children exploring the interior of the vehicle.
Project ‘And we can be firefighters’
Ina Baric Poznjak. Adorno This project has been implementing this project for two years, and as he says he deeply sympathizes with groups involved in the program because she is adopted herself, but also the mother of a child with disabilities.
Zagreb: Children from the Adonis Association visited firefighters in Savska |
– It is a project that has been held for two years with the aim of working with endangered groups on social margins, but also to children without proper parental care and children with disabilities. The emphasis is on the party, but also on an educational character because children are taught about firefighters’ business, demonstrating to them firefighting and showing them all the equipment that firefighters use – Barć Požnjak told us. As she told us, in two years, the project visited four cities, Split, Zadar, Sisak and Zagreb, and a visit to Križevci is also a plan.
The Ozana Association, Centers, Caritas Houses and Caritas Homes for Physical and Mental Damage, Children’s Home of Nazorova, Center for Autism, Grigor Vitez Elementary School, Center for Education Vinko Bek, participated.
The program was not hidden by educators.
– It was more than great to the children, they had a great time. They tried various things, extinguished the fire, extinguished it with water and powder. They sat in a fire truck and found out what she looked like inside. It was great for them – Franka Dnučec told us from the Zagreb Children’s Center.
