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Vilniaus g. 3
Kretinga LT-97129
Lithuania
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email: sv.antanodc@gmail.com




DESCRIPTION OF THE
ST. ANTHONY DAY CENTRE


MISSION OF THE CNETER
To serve God and the Church, to help children, teenagers and youth who go through various crises in the families, and to help their families to recognize God‘s love, and in various ways to show them the reflections of good, to help them to find and share the goodness in their own lives.

VISION OF IDENTITY
Seek, that for the children, teenagers and youth, going through various crises in their families, and for their families would be rendered: the example of righteous and honorable life, help for the families to recognize with the true values of life and to come to love them. We also want our community of workers and volunteers to be healthy and dedicated to the service of each other.

HISTORY OF ESTABLISHMENT
Co-founders of the establishment: Kretinga's monastery of the Annunciation to Our Lady of the Lithuanian province of St. Casimir and natural person Ms. Margarita Lizdenytė.

In 2004 we’ve started the program in the name of Franciscan youth ministry of Kretinga. But the more we worked with children, going through various crises in the family and with their families; we noticed that the program is not enough that we need not only to go deep into their problems, but to organize comprehensive and timely help. So arose the idea to extend the program and to tackle it by establishing a separate organization.

St. Anthony's day center was founded on 21st November in 2007 in Kretinga. In the beginning the basis for the center was the program "Be good, if you can" the main aim of the program was care and education of children and teenagers from the poor families through artistic self-expression.

GOALS
  1. To improve and continue the programs carried on by St. Anthony's day centre.
  2. To organize education of the workers and volunteers invoking co-working partners.
  3. To create and adjust the building (ex-workshop of school) for the soup-kitchen, the social work with the homeless people, the families going through crises: parents, children and community educational center.
  4. To organize voluntary projects.
  5. To adapt the program „Big brothers big sisters“ seeking to help the children going through crises.
  6. To organize and expand activity onto which could join and other members of the society.
HOW DO WE MAINTAIN?
St. Anthony’s day center is a non-profit public establishment which has the status of beneficiary and maintains from the support/funding of projects and offerings of benefactors.

ACTIVITIES IN THE DAY CENTER
 St. Anthony’s day center works with the children from families which need social support from Monday to Thursday during the school year, except for the Feasts and Holiday period.
Children are divided into two age groups: younger – 7-12 years old and elder – 13-17 years old.
  • Mondays – Group for younger children (7-12 years old)
  • Mondays – From the group of elders those who want attend  “street dance” circle
  • Tuesdays – Group of elder children (13-14 years old)
  • Wednesdays – Group for younger children (7-12 years old)
  • Thursday – Group of elder children (13-14 years old)
Children come after school to the parish house of the Annunciation to our Lady Church in Kretinga
  • Mondays and Wednesdays from 1 p.m. to 6 p. m
  • Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 6 p. m

Here they do their homework, cleaning, learn cooking and housework skills. Children have art, drama, discussions, consultations and art therapy activities. With children work social workers, social pedagogues, pedagogues and other specialists.
  • Every Monday and Wednesday we bring the younger children to the day center and take them home from Aukštkalviai, Budriai and Baubliai villages.
Yearly for separate groups we organize camps, outings, weekends. Children go for excursions, outings, cinemas and marches.

Yearly we organize events for the families: Christmas, Mother’s day, opening and closing of the school year; member of the children’ families are invited: parents, guardians, brothers and sisters, grandparents – children show what they’ve done, perform, etc.
 Workers, volunteers, children and their family members participate in various actions and event: ecological actions, fairs, etc.
St. Anthony’s day center participates in various charitable projects. In this way they support not only children with free service but also other members of the families with food packets (projects aren’t permanent, so the recipients personally learn about the support)
We visit the families that attend the day center at home.

WE COLLABORATE WITH
  • Consultants:
    • The faculty of social welfare of the University of Vytautas Magnum (Kaunas city);
    • Lithuanian Caritas;
    • House of the Holy Cross in Vilnius;
    • Maintenance center for Children in Vilnius,
  • Voluntary youth organisations:
    • Kretinga's Franciscan youth ministry;
    • Bernardinai youth center in Vilnius.
  • Religious communities:
    • Franciscan brothers;
    • Missionaries of Charity (Sisters of Mother Teresa);
    • Franciscan Missionaries of the Sacred Heart;
    • Sisters of St. Clare;
    • Franciscan youth;
    • Third Order Franciscans;
  • Other organizations:
    • Municipality of Kretinga’s district
    • Social service center of Kretinga’s district
    • Day activity center (for the handicapped people);
    • Kretinga's Franciscan gymnasium.
    • Vincas Denišius art school of Viekšniai
    • Public establishment Chamber Music Foundation.

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CONTACTS:

Website:
 Name:
Viesoji istaiga Sv.Antano dienos centras / Public establishment St. Anthony’s day center


The address of administrative office:
Vilniaus g. 3, Kretinga, Lithuania

Email:
sv.antanodc@gmail.com

Director and coordinator of project's:
Ms. Margarita Lizdenytė
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