Short-term (2 to 4 weeks) "educational/teaching" projects in Indonesia

In cooperation with the Blora Environmental Agency (BLH), and during the anniversary of Blora town, the camp will support the national planting trees project. Volunteers will take part as agents for raising awareness of planting trees. Although international workcamps have been organised in Blora since 2006, it will be the first Blora camp to explore the theme of environmental education.

1. Participating in BLH Blora in the national planting trees project.
2. To deliver the message of planting trees voluntarily for local people/youth in Blora by being an agent for raising awareness of planting trees.
3. Share experience in environmental issues with local people/ youth.
4. Experience and exchange the local culture with your origin culture for global friendship.

Planting trees activity with local people/youth/students, school visit/local community visit, sharing sessions, cooking sessions, games with local children around the campsite, cultural exchanges, etc.

Be ready with many ideas for games, competitions and cultural exchange. Enthusiastic approach to working with local children, plenty of patience and have a big big smile!!!

Host family, sleeping bag and mattress needed, self cooking.

Mlangsen Village, Blora Central Java Indonesia.

English should be spoken among participants.

January 31st 2012 at the latest 12.00 midday.

Ahmad Yani Semarang airport.

Participation fee payable on arrival. 185 Euros covering accommodation, meals, transportation, and material for project, police certificate.

Gedongsongo is one of the main tourist spots in Central Java. There are 9 temples in the areas and the temples should be very interesting places to have a vacation. Still, the environmental condition, socio-economic background, sanitation and hygiene of the local people need to be improved. Most of the inhabitants are earning money from the vegetables garden that they have. In the weekend, they will sell the vegetables to the visitors in the tourist spot. This project will be the eighth project organised there. Based on the last work camp evaluation, the volunteers will do the follow up of activities; education and sharing knowledge on rubbish recycling, managing rubbish dumping and other relevant environmental activities.

The main aims of the camp are; to increase the awareness of the local people about rubbsih problem (especially non organic rubbish) and to introduce them to recycling processes.

The volunteer will work in changing the behaviour and activities of the local people towards their environment, recycling rubbish, composting, introducing personal hygiene related to the environment conditions, organising additional English lessons and school visits, and playing games with the children. There will also be possibilities of planting trees, making a garden together with the local students for preserving and promoting a healthy environment.

Please bring any necessary information about rubbish recycling and composting. Be very creative and prepared for additional English lessons, games and other activities for the children. Do remember to bring sun block and warm clothes since it will be very hot in the day time and very cold at night.

Desa Candi Gedongsongo Ambarawa Central Java Indonesia. The volunteers can see the breath-taking views from the top of the hill in Gedongsongo. The air is so fresh and the nature is still so pure, it makes for a very relaxing day.

Host family, sleeping bag and mattress needed, self cooking.

English should be spoken among participants.

Airport - Ahmad Yani Semarang airport. Train Station - Tawang Semarang train station.

Participation fee payable on arrival 165 Euros covering accommodation, meals, transportation, and materials for project.

Preserving natural diversity and the sea shore from erosion because of no more mangrove and too strong waves from the ocean will be the main focus of the camp. These projects will be the eight and ninth project organized by IIWC in answering the needs of preserving the coastal side of North Java Sea in Mangkang. This area is now in danger due to the sea erosion, cutting mangrove by a local factory and heavy force from the river flows. Before, many kinds of fish and shrimps were living there, but since the condition of the mangrove forest is getting worse, it is quite difficult to find the species anymore. Fisherman also needs to go further to the ocean to fish and it means they need to do much more work to earn money. Mangkang is the project site for IIWC's World Tanabata Action since 2008. It is a global project initiated by NICE Japan that was then adopted by CCIVS UNESCO in the beginning of 2008 where volunteers all over the world, through IVS, plant trees and hang their wishes on Tanzaku paper on a bamboo leaf.

The aims of the camps are to initiate the project of protecting the sea shore, increase the awareness of the local people and the fisherman to protect their environment as well as their future.

Planting mangrove and other tree types for the beach. Environmental education for the local people and children, school visits for environmental education and Olympic Games for environment.

Very hot and basic hygiene conditions of a poor coastal area. Be ready with sun block for sun burn. Bring some ideas for environmental education (especially about mangrove and how to take care of it) and Olympic games for environment education for small children aged from 6-12 and adults.

Mangkang, Semarang Central Java Indonesia.

Host family, sleeping bag is needed, self cooking.

English should be spoken among participants.

on March 3rd 2012 at the latest 12.00 midday.

Ahmad Yani Semarang airport ; Train Station: Tawang Semarang train station .

Participation fee payable on arrival. 185 Euros covering accommodation, meals, transportation, and material for project, police certificate.

The first Workcamp in this area took place in 2008. There was a 2 year project called IIWC Cares Jogja, after the earth quake in 2006. Some programs such as emergency workcamps, NVDA special camp, Notebook Action, donation for rebuilding one kindergarten, donation for sport facilities in primary schools in and around this area has been done successfully. Recently one the schools visited by the workcamps, called SD Muhamadiyah Semoya would like to have more IVS activity for the students there. The spirit and motivation brought by workcamp volunteers are expected to raise the motivation of the students to study more for their future. There is a need to have international experiences for the students as well as the teacher to build more their knowledge and soft skills in terms of non-formal education approach combined with the formal education at the school. At the same time, it also offers the volunteers a chance to see the recovered area and results from the project that IIWC and other partners conducted from 2006 to 2008, after the earth quake (IIWC Cares Jogja Project). It also creates a good opportunity for volunteers to experience the local culture of Jogja which is not touristic.

1. The main idea is to offer the teacher. students of SD Muhamadiyah Semoya and volunteers a chance for cultural exchange and understanding.
2. Experience and exchange the local culture with your origin culture for global friendship.
3. Sharing knowledge with teachers and students in terms of different methods of learning and teaching systems in primary school from different countries.
4. Sharing knowledge with teachers and students in terms of learning-teaching about extra subject (skills, engineering, English, sport).

Workshops with the teachers, workshops with students, cultural exchange with local people/neighborhood.

Feel free to bring some equipment for the students such as a map of your country. If possible some second hand electronic devises that you do not mind to donate to the school for them to learn, educative toys for children of age 7-13 years old.

Host family, sleeping bag and mattress needed, self cooking.

Semoya Village, Brebah, Jogja.

English should be spoken among participants.

On January 31st 2012 at the latest 14.00.

Adisutjipto - Yogyakarta (JOG) International Airport.

Participation fee payable on arrival. 185 Euros covering accommodation, meals, transportation, and material for project, police certificate.

Preserving natural diversity and the sea shore from erosion because of no more mangrove and too strong waves from the ocean will be the main focus of the camp. These projects will be the eight and ninth project organized by IIWC in answering the needs of preserving the coastal side of North Java Sea in Mangkang. This area is now in danger due to the sea erosion, cutting mangrove by a local factory and heavy force from the river flows. Before, many kinds of fish and shrimps were living there, but since the condition of the mangrove forest is getting worse, it is quite difficult to find the species anymore. Fisherman also needs to go further to the ocean to fish and it means they need to do much more work to earn money. Mangkang is the project site for IIWC's World Tanabata Action since 2008. It is a global project initiated by NICE Japan that was then adopted by CCIVS UNESCO in the beginning of 2008 where volunteers all over the world, through IVS, plant trees and hang their wishes on Tanzaku paper on a bamboo leaf.

The aims of the camps are to initiate the project of protecting the sea shore, increase the awareness of the local people and the fisherman to protect their environment as well as their future.

Planting mangrove and other tree types for the beach. Environmental education for the local people and children, school visits for environmental education and Olympic Games for environment.

Very hot and basic hygiene conditions of a poor coastal area. Be ready with sun block for sun burn. Bring some ideas for environmental education (especially about mangrove and how to take care of it) and Olympic games for environment education for small children aged from 6-12 and adults.

Mangkang, Semarang Central Java Indonesia.

Host family, sleeping bag is needed, self cooking.

English should be spoken among participants.

on March 3rd 2012 at the latest 12.00 midday.

Ahmad Yani Semarang airport ; Train Station: Tawang Semarang train station .

Participation fee payable on arrival. 185 Euros covering accommodation, meals, transportation, and material for project, police certificate.

The project will be held in Fatimatus Zahro orphanage. This will be the fourth workcamp project organised together with the Fatimatus Zahro orphanage. This project site has been one location for our long term volunteer project for with at least 5 long term volunteers placed there now. Fatimatus Zahro is a muslim orphanage accommodating not only children without parents but also needy children whose parents could not afford for their formal education. Poverty is a main reason why these parents entrust their children under the education of the orphanage. In this project the volunteers are expected to share happiness, loves, and cares with them.

The aims of the camp is to get to know the daily life of orphaned children, in order to have a nice and meaningful relation with them sharing love and happiness together; to broaden their perspective on life and the possibilities for their future dreams - what they want to be in the future. Especially this year, we would like to raise awareness of environmental issues in this orphanage in terms of waste management systems.

Together with Faza (the abbreviation of Fatimatus Zahro project) LTV, volunteers will teach/ assist/ help the children with the waste management system including the basic information on the system itself. By organising some environmental classes, the volunteers will be working to raise awareness about rubbish, working together with the children to make a huge rubbish bin and some other bins for separating waste. Volunteers are to be involved in changing the habit of the children in the orphanage. Other works can be organising some foreign language class, especially English, with possible creative methods and approaches such as games, songs, quizzes, etc as part of cultural exchange. Volunteers can also arrange other activities of cultural exchange, gardening, sport activities, making wall magazine, etc.

Projects with children; please prepare your big smiles, toys, sweets, origami paper, many ideas of games and plays, also interesting activities for children. Story books are also welcome. Very basic and simple life of Indonesian Muslim traditional orphanage. It will be very interesting and challenging activities with very attentive and enthusiastic children.

Pedurungan village, Semarang Central Java Indonesia, just 1 hour from Semarang Airport.

The dormitory of the orphanage, need sleeping bag and mattress, self cooking with a traditional way of cooking, no stove.

English should be spoken among participants. Little Indonesia or Javanese language are always very welcome.

on March 9th 2012 at the latest 12.00 midday.

Ahmad Yani Semarang airport ; Train Station : Tawang Semarang train station.

Participation fee payable on arrival. 185 Euros covering accommodation, meals, transportation, and material for project.