Different projects for children and youngsters will run in July/August in KiEZ Guentersberge. Please be prepared to help with the decoration, to prepare and to run sports games for children and youngsters or to prepare a campfire. Besides, the volunteers will do different renovation works like painting, removing weeds in the activity centre and other tasks. Volunteers may also be involved in other tasks that will help to maintain the KiEZ Guentersberge.
Location:
Sachsen-Anhalt, Quedlinburg 20 km
Terminal:
Berlin or Leipzig
Accommodation:
You will live in bungalows with 4 or 5 beds; the toilets and showers are about 200 m from your bungalows.
The organization Hauskreis Nordloh e.V. is a nonprofit organization that runs a seminar house dedicated to child and youth work. The building is available for field trips, confirmation groups, free time, and other activities. It is beginning to show its age and is in desperate need of refreshment On the outside, new equipment and areas for free time need to be created (low ropes course, boulder wall, terrace, etc). This means lots of hammering, sawing, and painting Your talent for such tasks as well as your creativity are much welcomed here. For one week, your team will additionally support the Apen community with various beautification tasks on public spaces.
Accomodation & food:
Accommodation: In a seminar house. You will sleep in three rooms with 10-12 beds apiece.Catering: Meals will be prepared as a group in your accommodation s kitchen.
Location & leisure:
Location: Lower Saxony; Oldenburg 40 km, Bremen 90 kmLeisure: The seminar house has a swimming pool, soccer field, billiards, and foosball. It is rurally located in a beautiful area. For trips in the area you will be provided with bikes. There is a pool in Hengstforde. The nearest cities are Oldenburg, Leer, Emden, Aurich, and Papenburg.
In the city of Verden, there are two sites that need your team s help Near a city center, as well as near a youth center, your team will help build new grills, which will serve as a meeting point for the district s residents as well as those who use the youth center. Your group will help with preparing the space, building seating areas, and planting. Additionally, you will fix benches, paint them, and the grill at the youth center will also receive a screen.
Accomodation & food:
Accommodation: In a scout center.Catering: Meals will be prepared as a group.
Location & leisure:
Location: Lower Saxony; Bremen 40 km, Hamburg 120 km
On a large play area directly next to the youth center in Lemwerder, your team will help build a dirt track for bikes. You will help create a course for the dirt bikes, which will be used by the local youth (and your team) after a dedication ceremony. To accomplish this, your team will move a lot of dirt, as well as create ramps and hills. From August 14-16, northern Germany s largest kite festival will take place in Lemwerder. Kite flyers from many countries as well as 30,000 visitors are expected. Together with the youth from Lemwerder, your team will create a chill-out lounge, where you will serve drinks and have music by and for the local youth. The kite festival will take place on your camp s final weekend, and your team will be at your stand during the day as well as until the after show party. You cannot travel on this weekend. However, with permission, you will be granted other days free during the week. For one week, during your camp, there will be a circus project for youth and children. The rehearsals for this will take place in the gym where you will be staying. For more information please see www.lemwerder.de, www.drachen-ueber-lemwerder.de.
Accomodation & food:
Accommodation: You will be staying in a gym. A common area is located in the youth center.Catering: Lunch will be provided, all other meals will be provided as a group.
Location & leisure:
Location: Lower Saxony; Bremen 15 km, Oldenburg 30 km, Hamburg 100 km.
Project: Are you interested in intercultural and urban gardenin? Then you re in the right spot in this project The organization International District Garden (Internationale StadtteilGaerten e.V., www.isghannover.de) has created community gardens, where families of various nationalities can plant vegetables, herbs, and flowers, and come into contact with each other. During the first two camp weeks, your team will help with various gardening and manual labor tasks, such as building small huts or tables, flower bed edging, a natural playground, and with an upcycling project.Study Part: During these three weeks, there will be a study section on ecology and sustainability, complete with visits and trips. One trip will include the Climate House in Bremerhaven (Klimahaus Bremerhaven), and another will include an exhibit on people and consumption (KonsuMenschspaziergang) in Hanover. Additionally, discussions about sustainable projects in your home countries will complete the study section.
Accomodation & food:
Catering: Meals will be prepared as a groupAccommodation: In a guest apartment
Location & leisure:
Where: Lower Saxony; HanoverFree Time: Hanover offers all the diverse activities found in a large city. Tourism highlights include the Herrenhaus Gardens, the Zoo, and the Maschsee Lake.
If you yearn to combine adventure and nature with theater and construction, then you re in the right spot During a three day trip to Poel Island, you can sail with a 2-mast boat, ride bikes, and spend the night together on the beach. If the weather doesn t cooperate enough to have a sailing trip, we will travel there with kayaks and canoes. Before, during, and after this trip, you and your team can use your creativity as well as practical abilities in self-organized workshops and study theater and circus performance. Additionally, you will work in the vegetable garden and undertake small repair tasks in your accommodation. You will learn how to climb in a high ropes course and then help with a tree house platform. During these activities, you will learn about various languages, cuisines, cultures, as well as creative and practical tasks. You will be assisted by experienced group leaders.
Accomodation & food:
Accommodation: In shared rooms. During the sailing trip, you will sleep in tents.Catering: Meals will be prepared as a group.
Location & leisure:
Location: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania; 20 km from WismarFree Time: Adventure doesn t just start in the morning and end in the afternoon All activities have a high degree of recreation to them. Together, you will get to know the area through hikes and bike tours, as well as visit the city of Wismar, the Baltic Sea, swim, and sit around the bonfire in the evenings.
Requirements:
You must be able to ride a bike and swim. You should enjoy being on the water and speak English.
Your help is needed for various work in the community of Enkenbach-Alsenborn. You help to build a dirt bike system. To do this, drainage and hills are applied. In the forest region, you will build new wooden benches. Another project is the design of a natural playing surface. If there is time, you will renew a nature trail.
Accomodation & food:
Catering: Meals will be prepared as a group.Accommodation: In shared rooms in a community center.
Location & leisure:
Where: Rhineland Palatinate; Kaiserslautern 10 km, Heidelberg 50 km.Free-time: In Enkenbach-Alsenborn there is a beautiful outdoor swimming pool, which you will receive free admission to. Enkenbach-Alsenborn is very scenic, near the Palatinate Forest Nature Park. You can also visit the nearby Hambach Castle. For you, a night hike to the Frankenstein castle is offered. You will be provided with bicycles. For day trips, you can visit the cities of Heidelberg, Mannheim or Mainz. In addition, you are not far away from the French border, so you can take a day trip to Strasbourg. This camp is made possible by the generous support of Johnson Controls
In this beautiful location in Thuringen, between Zwickau and Leipzig, your team will find countless traditional buildings in need of renovation. These include the Lumpzig Windmill, the Paul-Gustavus-Haus in Altenburg, the Stuenzhain Church, and the Herzogin-Agnes-Gedaechtniskirche, a memorial church. There, your team will help with restoration efforts in traditional manners. You will build with natural materials. You will support these efforts with securing the structure, consolidating wall work, plastering the walls, jointing, and repainting, yardwork near the construction sites, and dismantling and constructing a small staircase near the side entrance. Your main tasks will be construction, plastering, jointing, and painting.
Accomodation & food:
Accommodation: In a school, the Christian Spalatin Gymnasium.Catering: Meals will be prepared as a group.
Location & leisure:
Location: Thuringia; Leipzig 46 km, Zwickau 35 km, Erfurt 117 km, Dresden 126 km.Free Time: After a day s work, you can take advantage of the leisure activities in this beautiful nature area. You can visit the Lutherwege, the Altenburg Brewery with its brewery museum, the Mauritianum Nature Museum, and a castle. You can also visit the Lindenau Museum, play mini golf, and simply lay near the swimming areas and pools. Music fans will enjoy the Altenburg Music Festival.
« 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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