School of practical social work

School trains social pedagogues, social workers, volunteers in healing people, giving professional assistance to them, self-assistance, trains young social pedagogues to organise social and charity activities, to take care affer eldery people and disabled children.

School for teaching adults comprises different forms of educational assistance to adults, provides adults with different applied and knowledge.

Bureau of public services includes children’s and adults unions, they offer services in psychology, pedagogy, medicine, information, education, charity, social sphere, law and ceremonies.

Popular festivals – village festivals are organized taking into account traditions of folk culture and local customs.

Complex of small enterprises, organization of family cooperation, small enterprises, home labor, school cooperatives, agricultural schools, workshops for traditional handicrafts aimed at restoring traditional popular arts and trades, creation of additional working positions for community members, particularly for young people, women, elder people and invalids.

The project of the Neverov community center of social pedagogy and social work called «revival of Russian ecclesiatory» envisages a development of a new complex service of social assistance to public, it is at the Neverov Center. It was organized by the authorities of Nepekhtsk district of Kostroma region on the territory of Voskresensk village council. Pedagogues, cultural workers, medical workers, social pedagogues and workers of the district are involved by the Center. It works with children and youth, families with many children and unhappy families, single and elder people, invalids and refugees. The Center services 860 people of the community. The work is headed by the director and his 3 deputies. Two family pedagogues, two pedagogues – organisers of cultural leisure, one social worker are on the Center's staff.

The major trend in the work with people are physical culture and sports, development of popular traditions, agricultural creative and technical labor. An important aspect of village life is farm labor. It is one of the stability factors of each family and community on the whole. Center's staff encourages joint work of children and adults on their private lots (every family has a rather large farm, collective village activities on making the life more comfortable and planting trees and shrubs; children’s efforts to grow and store vegetables for school canteen, children's farms for sealing greenery, decorative and fruit plants, their desire to decorate their homes and lots with flowers, development of gathering and production.

The center organisms joint children’s and adults’ leisure. On the basis of school and culture clubs different sections for children and adults are working. There are sections of decorative arts, sewing, knitting, photography. The school has an art school for children with music and arts departments. Working days of villagers are made happier with art exhibitions and auctions of exhibits. The center has become a heart of restoring Russian traditions. Such ceremonies as farewell to Russian winter, Sfirovetide, village festivals, competitions of accordion players and chastooshka singers have become traditional. Old wedding ceremonies are being revived now. There are also new traditions: a festival of the first furrow and sheaf, celebrations for war and labor veterans, days of senior citizens, parties celebrating joining the Army. Both children and adults are involved by social pedagogues in all kinds of recreations. Social pedagogues also teach parents to celebrate family holidays.

There is a course for young social pedagogues, it is taken by children who are good at social and pedagogic activities.

The center offers psychological, pedagogical, medical consultations) to villagers.

ЛЕКСИЧЕСКИЙ ТЕСТ № 3

В задании I установите соответствие между английскими и русскими терминами.

I

1) inkind benefit 2) children’s allowance 3) prenatal allowance 4) disability benefit 5) insurance scheme 6) social benefits 7) insurance payments 8) cash benefit 9) sick benefit 10) housing allowance

a) пособие, выделяемое на оплату жилья b) пособие по безработице c) страховые выплаты d) пособие по беременности и родам e) пособие по болезни f) пособие в натуральной форме g) пособия по социальному обеспечению h) пособие по инвалидности i) схема страхования j) денежное пособие k) государственное пособие многодетным семьям

 

В заданиях II – V выберите термин, являющийся синонимом подчеркнутому

II children's allowance 1. maternity benefit

2. family allowance

3. housing allowance

 

III medical benefit 1. sick benefit

2. social benefits

3. disability benefit

 

IV social service benefits 1. inkind benefits

2. cash benefits

3. social welfare benefits

V unemployment benefit 1. unemployment-compensation benefit

2. retirement allowance

3. cash benefits.

 

UNIT 4

Poverty

I. Прочитайте и выучите новые термины и терминологические сочетания

applicant – заявитель, проситель

conditions – условия

living conditions – жилищные условия

income – доход

lack – нехватка, недостаток; нужда

level – уровень

level of living – уровень жизни

poverty level – прожиточный минимум

subsistence level – прожиточный минимум

line – черта бедности

breadline – раздача беднякам продуктов питания (низкого качества или с истекшим сроком хранения)

crisis hotline – горячая линия

hot line – горячая линия

poverty line – прожиточный минимум

needs – потребности

poor – бедный

poverty – бедность, нищета

absolute poverty – абсолютная бедность

primary poverty – первичная бедность

relative poverty – относительная бедность

secondary poverty – вторичная бедность

scheme – схема

comprehensive social security schemes – схемы социального страхования

starvation – голод, недоедание

subsistence – существование, жизнь

threat – угроза

well-being – благополучие, благосостояние

II. Установите соответствия между терминами социальной работы на русском и английском языках

a)

1) absolute poverty

2) primary poverty

3) relative poverty

4) secondary poverty

5) hot line

6) poverty datum line

a) вторичная бедность

b) относительная бедность

c) первичная бедность

d) горячая линия

e) прожиточный минимум

f) абсолютная бедность

b)

1) well-being

2) lack

3) living conditions

4) income

5) applicant

6) needs

7) poor

8) threat

9) scheme

10) poverty

a) благополучие, благосостояние

 

b) нехватка, недостаток; нужда

c) доход

d) потребности

e) жилищные условия

f) угроза

g) схема

h) бедность, нищета

i) заявитель, проситель

j) бедный

III. Прочитайте следующие интернациональные слова и переведите их на русский язык

1. absolute

2. capital

3. context

4. definition

5. evolution line

6. situation

7. standard

8. test

IV. Прочитайте текст и выполните задания к нему

ТЕКСТ A. Poverty

There is no objective and unique definition of poverty, which is capable to describe exactly when somebody is poor. There has been an evolution in the description of poverty. In these definitions, it is shown that poverty is not only lack of money to buy food, but is also related to living conditions, well-being, health, and possibilities to change the personal situation.

Poverty can be defined in different ways. Every definition leads to different outcomes, to a different group of people, which can be considered as poor and, in relation to this, to different policy measures and a different amount of costs needed to solve the problem of poverty.

Poverty exists for many centuries, but the content of the notion differs from country to country and from time to time. There is a difference in poverty in Western Europe and Eastern Europe. There is also a difference in the meaning of poverty in Western Europe in the last century and today. Last century poverty mostly meant that a part of the population had to struggle for life and did not have enough money to buy food: poverty was an absolute notion. Nowadays most of the Western European countries have comprehensive social security schemes, which cover the whole population. Almost everybody has a basic income and in some countries this income is rather high. In those countries therefore poverty cannot longer be seen as a threat of daily life. There, poverty means that a part of population has arrears in relation to the average population: poverty is a relative notion.

Most discussions distinguish between absolute or primary poverty and relative or secondary poverty. «Absolute poverty» refers to a lack of the basic requirements to sustain physical life. «Relative poverty» is used to demonstrate the inadequacy of definitions of absolute or primary poverty by referring to the cultural needs of individuals and families within the context of the rest of society. An absolute poverty line is a kind of fixed amount. An absolute poverty line is not meant to change with the standard of living in society. People are defined as «poor» if their income is below the line and when some absolute needs are not sufficiently satisfied.