There will be two main tasks: 1. To renew some parts of the playground linked to the local kindergarten (renovation of playing tools, gardening work, benches -) and 2. To set up a flying fox (cableway) as playing tool on the local playground. There might be some actions with children in the kindergarten as well. So please be prepared to present your country to local children.
Accomodation & food:
to be confirmed
Location & leisure:
Schillingen is a village 30 km from Trier in a beautiful landscape. The area is well known for cycling, walking and other ways of outdoor activities. The local holiday resort offers more than 200 holiday bungalows next to a lake. But also people from the area come here for cycling (there is a 45 km cycling path on a former railway roadbed) or to spend a nice day outside. Schillingen has a nice public swimming pool. The region also offers plenty of historic sites (castles, museums-.). You will also get the opportunity to come in contact with local associations as e.g. the local voluntary fire brigade. But public transport is poor during the weekend, so the number of excursions will be limited. But for sure Trier with the famous Roman sites, with the cathedral and birth place of Karl-Marx can be visited.
You will help the British artist and sculptor Robert Koenig (www.robertkoenig-sculptor.com) to set up his exhibit, and help support him with his grand opening (at the drink area). You will have the opportunity to participate in a workshop with him (carving with wood). During the second half of camp, your team will help cut walls free from brush and help build a dry stone wall, as well as build covered seats for a grill, cut firewood, and do other necessary tasks. You will likely work in the mornings, with some work on the weekends (for the grand opening). You will then have Fridays off.
Accomodation & food:
Accommodation: In a former landlord s apartment at the Jugendzentrum am Bahnhof Youth Center (www.jab-nuertingen.de).Catering: Meals will be prepared as a group.
Location & leisure:
Location: Baden-Wurttemberg; Stuttgart 30 kmFree Time: Nuerting has about 40,000 residents and is located in the Neckar Valley area near the Swabian Alps (www.nuertingen.de). Take a bike ride through this beautiful landscape, to nearby swimming areas, along the Neckar River, or to the Biosphere area at the foot of the alps. In your free time, you will also have the opportunity to swim, climb in the alps, hike, or canoe along with discovering Nuertingen and the student city of Tuebingen. The state capital of Stuttgart is only a half hour train ride away, and offers museums, shopping, a planetarium, theater, etc.
Naturspur (literally translated, trace of nature ) is a nonprofit organization that along with its nature and environmental work, builds nature-like play landscapes with children, parents, and local residents. All are participants in the construction. A piece of land in Otterstadt offers the ideal setting for natural and adventure education experiences. Your help is needed Together with local residents, your team will renovate a playground and get it ready for the upcoming summer camp Along with building huts for the construction tools, your team will begin the year s hut building season. This means lots of woodwork: trimming boards, cutting, and screwing. Additionally, maintenance tasks such as mowing, watering, and harvesting are also planned for your team.
Accomodation & food:
Accommodation: In tents on the Naturspur e.V. (a nature organization) grounds. The kitchen and common area are located in the organization s building.Catering: Meals are prepared as a group.
Location & leisure:
Where: Rhineland-Palatinate; Speyer 10 km, Mannheim 20 km, Heidelberg 37 kmFree Time: In your free time, there are countless swimming areas to visit, aas well as the Altrhein River where you can canoe. The cities of Speyer and Mannheim offer diverse cultural and leisure programs. The city of Heidelberg, with its picturesque castle is well worth a trip.
You will renovate the playground of a primary school in Rottenburg. Professionals will instruct you during the work. The parents and children of the school are looking forward to helping you with the work.
Accomodation & food:
You will be accommodated in the gym directly next to the school in Rottenburg. Camp beds and sanitary facilities are provided. During the week you can eat lunches in the school.
Location & leisure:
Rottenburg offers various cultural as well as sport activities: museums, swimming pools, canoeing and an outdoor climbing wall. Nearby, there are hiking trails and castles which invite you to spend a relaxing day in the nature. The university town Tuebingen with plenty of cafes and bars is only 12km away and also Stuttgart can be reached in 1 hour by train.
Requirements:
Please send a short letter about yourself, preferably with a photo, so that the children know who is coming to work with them.
The volunteers will carry out different works in the castle s complex and its surroundings. They will do small renovation works and woodworks in and around the castle in order to protect and to restore the historical buildings. Additionally, the participants will clear up different parts of the ensemble and take care of the green area around by cutting grass, mowing the lawn, digging up the garden, clearing it of weeds and cleaning historical walls from roots.
Accomodation & food:
simple conditions, shared rooms with mattresses,warm showers and toiletsThe meals will be prepared together as they are part of the community life, what means that everybody will be responsible for the meal at least once during its stay. So it would be very nice if you could bring typical recipes from home in order to introduce each other to the preparation of food from all over the world.
Location & leisure:
Our houses are mostly situated in rural countrysides and small villages, so you should not expect busy places and normal city activities for the leisure time during the working days. Small trips in walking distance are possible in the afternoon.On the weekends it is possible to organise excursion to nearby cities or have other leisure activities.
In the last workcamp with the help of a local artist benches of encounter have been designed and a big mural has been created on the wall of a construction site trailer in the local kindergarden. This year we are invited to be even more creative: In the entrance of the local church, there is a picture as memorial in remembrance of the killed German soldiers of 1st World War. We will be asked: How can arise a perspective for peace and reconciliation out of the past? We will discuss the militaristic and nationalistic approach of this memorial. The artist Ulrike Speckmann will help us to create another picture as a reflection and the result will be shown also in the entrance of the church. For information about the artist please visit http://ulrike-speckmann.de/. In addition to this artistic activities it is foreseen to plant a herb garden with the help of an experienced gardener. To contact the different social groups of the parish, from children to the older generation, is wished for, and part of the workcamp. Study part: How to tackle the subject peace artistically, local history as starting point of an international movement. Leisure time: Excursions to local places of interest, like the crossing of 4 channels and other sites.
Accomodation & food:
The participants will be accommodated in the modern community center of Datteln Etienne-Bach-Haus . Please bring sleeping bag. Camp beds and pillows will be provided.
Location & leisure:
The town Datteln is part of the mining region in the north of the Ruhr area with approx. 35 000 inhabitants in the federal state Nordrhein-Westfalen. Four waterways for shipping traffic are crossing in Datteln. The river Lippe and the region Munsterland are nearby. Next bigger towns are Recklinghausen, Dortmund and the very nice and famous students town Munster.
Bielefeld needs your help to clean and renovate a local playground to make it useable for the local children again Your team will fix the equipment, sandbox, and other areas in need of repair, redo the ground of the playground, construct pathways, and new security measures for the children. Your creative side is also needed, since you will paint the new equipment however your group wishes At the end, there will be a dedication ceremony with the children and their parents in the area, which your group will organize.
Accomodation & food:
Accommodation: In a school or youth centerCatering: Meals will be prepared as a group
Location & leisure:
Location: North Rhine-Westphalia; 50 km east of Munster, Hanover 80 kmFree Time: Bielefeld, a city with 300,000 residents, is located at the edge of the Teutoburg Forest. The city offers lots of recreational and cultural activities, such as music, theater, movie theaters, pubs, etc. The forest is a great place for hiking. There are travel opportunities to local cities such as Hanover, Osnabruck, and Munster.
Under a small inner courtyard in the medieval area of the castle there are old vaults which are endangered by penetrating rainwater. The volunteers taking part in the projects B04 and B05 will introduce an isolating clay layer in order to protect the medieval vaults. Additionally, the participants of the project B05 will erect scaffoldings in another part of the castle as preparation for the project B06.
Accomodation & food:
shared rooms with 2 - 5 beds in 3 guest houses, warm shower (limited hot water), WC inside, camp kitchen (cold water), coal-burning stoveThe meals will be prepared together as they are part of the community life, what means that everybody will be responsible for the meal at least once during its stay. So it would be very nice if you could bring typical recipes from home in order to introduce each other to the preparation of food from all over the world.
Location & leisure:
Our houses are mostly situated in rural countrysides and small villages, so you should not expect busy places and normal city activities for the leisure time during the working days. Small trips in walking distance are possible in the afternoon.On the weekends it is possible to organise excursion to nearby cities or have other leisure activities.
« I can say that the best things about the workcamp and this whole experience were the chance of making a real difference to the lives of very needy children. This is an extremely valuable project where volunteers can have a massive impact. Also the possibility of learning a huge amount about a country so different from our own. I learnt ten times as much by carrying out a workcamp than I would ever do backpacking. »
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