In south-estonia, near the villages Kiidjärve and Taevaskoja you can find Maarje village. Surrounded by forest with the beautiful Ahja river nearby, Maarja village offers a home to 33 young adults with learning problems. Here they try to live an active and independent life with the support and friendship of assistants and teachers living and working together with them. | View Larger Map
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The village has 5 different family houses, a workshop building and a vegetable and fruit garden. We believe that also people with learning problems have the potential and possibilities to develop. Too often this kind of children just stay with their family after they grew up and everything is done for them. In Maarja village they learn to become more independent. They learn how to take care of themselves and can develop new skills in different workshops. As adult people they learn to live without mother and father next to them. Many of them still visit often their families of course, but in the same time Maarja village has become like a family for them. Usually life in the village just goes on like everywhere else. After breakfast everybody has their activities to do: courses of gardening school, village work that has to be done (in the garden, forest or workshop), taking care of the vegetables and fruit that we grow ourselves, preparing lunch and diner, ... After work there is also time to socialize, to do some sports, cultural activities or just to relax together. In the evening we sit togehter to watch a movie or to play a game. Once a week to the swimming pool. Often it is also just partytime to celebrate birthdays, midsummer or the new year for example.
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