GoCamp: Petro Chernyshov

My name is Petro Chernyshov and with your help, I am planning to fundraise UAH 28,000 to finance the participation of a local village school in the GoCamp project. There is wonderfully saying: “As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being.” Foreign languages offer new opportunities for development and open new horizons, helping to read cultural codes of other people. It is very important, since we are living in a small world where we need to understand each other.

My name is Petro Chernyshov and with your help, I am planning to fundraise UAH 28,000 to finance the participation of a local village school in the GoCamp project. There is wonderfully saying: “As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being.” Foreign languages offer new opportunities for development and open new horizons, helping to read cultural codes of other people. It is very important, since we are living in a small world where we need to understand each other. 

I vividly remember how hard it was for me to adapt in Britain. I arrived there to study and work and, at the same time, could not even ask for directions. Therefore, I firmly believe that knowledge of foreign languages is indispensable.

The GoCamp project is aimed at the development of Ukrainian children. It is important and interesting for me. Together with the Kyivstar company, we support the development of STEM-education in Ukraine. Mathematics and English are mandatory, while the choice of other subjects depends on the particular skills students should improve. Those knowledge and skills which do not require much time to master will come naturally, while other subjects need additional time and efforts.

The GoCamp project is a school language camps involving international volunteers, who, together with English teachers, help children to learn foreign languages. GoGamp is about opportunities which are opening for Ukrainian children (only this year 60 000 children), namely learning about cultures of various countries, developing skills, which cannot be taught at school – critical or global thinking, for instance. For many pupils it will be their first meeting with a foreigner in their lives. In 2017, 600 volunteers are going to visit Ukraine, 80% of whom will go to small villages.

Volunteers will live in a host family of one of the pupils, which gives a special value to the project and opens the Ukrainian culture for foreigners in depth. As a result, foreigners ruin prejudice towards Ukraine, open it again and become the Ambassadors of our country in the world.

Project results in 2016:
- 120 volunteers from 40 countries;
- 127 schools GoCamps from 24 regions of Ukraine;
- 9000 children.