Your group will renovate and fashion a trailer/construction caravan, which will then be used as a venue for families, youth groups, and schools that visit the Niedersächsischen Landesgartenschau in Bad Essen. The outside of the trailer needs to be polished, primed and painted, while the inside will be redone using wood. The trailer will then be decorated inside and out, along the lines of the “Bathe in a Sea of Flowers” theme, and cleaned. Depending on the weather, the work will take place either outside or inside.
Free Time:
During your spare time you are free to roam the youth club and take advantage of all it has to offer. The education centre may also be used, including the gym, beach volleyball court, table tennis, foosball, Wii, disco, sauna, and grill pit. Excursions in the area are possible as well, such as to the Kalkriese Museum and Park, the castles in Ippenburg and Hünnefeld. Take a city tour (there’s a night tour as well!) or go shopping in Osnabruck, or visit the nearby zoo and the waffle factory.
For further information on the education centre, please visit www.haussonnenwinkel.de, or for more information on the youth club, please visit www.jugendtreffbadessen.wordpress.com.
Accommodation:
You will share rooms in the education centre. Meals will be provided.
Location:
Bad Essen I, Lower Saxony; Melle 20 km, Osnabruck 30 km, Hannover 120 km
In the forest an international youth centre called "Forstcamp Bogensee" will be created. The buildings were built in the thirties and were used in the former GDR too. The idea of this place is to make people appreciate nature, woodland and the environment. The focus of interest will be practical experience in ecological education. At the "Waldschule" (forest school) and in seminars young people work and study in the forest, in the project garden and in the yard.The idea of the camp is to support this project.The volunteers will collect firewood in the forest, remove non-native plants, care for the herb and project garden, participate in the biotope and species protection programme as well as support the renovation work at the house.
At a local elementary school and youth center, your team will be building and repairing playground equipment so that it can be used by the local children again. Working with various tools, you can show off your talent and use your creativity to make this a truly wonderful place to play. www.grundschule-altdoebern.de
Accommodation:
You will be sleeping on mattresses on the floor in a youth house. Meals will be prepared as a group.
Leisure Time:
In your free time you can travel throughout the area, and help organize a summer festival. Feel free to play games, go for a swim, or visit the nearby castle. On weekends you can travel to Berlin or discover Dresden.
Age:
16-26
Location:
ALTDÖBERN, Brandenburg, 125 km south of Berlin.
Travel terminal Train station - Calau / Airport - Berlin.
Your working place will be a children's farm. You are asked to do various renovation and gardening works. Furthermore you will prepare a festival. During the whole time you will meet and work along with children.
In the forest an international youth centre called "Forstcamp Bogensee" will be created. The buildings were built in the thirties and were used in the former GDR too. The idea of this place is to make people appreciate nature, woodland and the environment. The focus of interest will be practical experience in ecological education. At the "Waldschule" (forest school) and in seminars young people work and study in the forest, in the project garden and in the yard.The idea of the camp is to support this project.The volunteers will collect firewood in the forest, remove non-native plants, care for the herb and project garden, participate in the biotope and species protection programme as well as support the renovation work at the house.
Every year at Schloss Broellin (Broellin castle) artists meet to run international art workshops, festivals and other events. The aim is to provide a meeting place for artists and the public. Artists present their work and exchange ideas with colleagues. Your help will be needed to build living and working facilities outside. During the festival you will help in the kitchen. Please be prepared for a little, isolated but very nice place in the middle of nowhere!
Your help is needed to finish the idea of a "class room in the nature", You will build a willow hut including benches and the surrounding of the new established willow hut. Furthermore you are asked to do preparation works for a youth campsite. It is possible that you will do other works on the ground of the recreation centre.
The main part is maintaining and building works on the grounds of the [LAND]Kombinat e.V. and in the garden.
Area 2:
Two volunteers will create a video and photo documentary of the project. This work may be published. Volunteers must have a good knowledge of this area and be able to work independently (we do not have any equipment available and volunteers should therefore provide their own, or contact us and we will try to lend video equipment).
« I think our work has really opened the eyes of the youth there. I think that, because of our presence, some local youths got the chance to learn about other cultures which they wouldn't have otherwise. »
