If you are interested in making this summer unforgettable for the local children with adventure, while also challenging yourself, you re in the right spot Your team will create, plan, and run various activities for children to do during their summer camp. Additionally, various craftsman tasks need to be done and your creativity is needed Your group will also work in the summer camp with children ages 6 and over.
Accomodation & food:
Accommodation: On cots in a school in EdewechtCatering: Meals will be prepared as a group
Location & leisure:
Where: Lower Saxony; 20 km west of Oldenburg, Bremen 70 kmFree Time: Edewecht is a community located in the Ammerland region, an area with a beautiful landscape. You can discover the area by bike using its extensive bike trails. The university town of Oldenburg is 20 km away and easily reached with public transportation. On the weekends you can take trips to Bremen, Hamburg, or the North Sea. For more information please see www.edewecht.de, www.ammerland.de, www.oldenburg.de.
This camp is aimed at youth who enjoy sailing and manual tasks. The Erich Kaestner Haus has over five sailboats for inland waters, of which three need to have a general overhaul. The boats, so-called migratory birds (about 6 meters) need a new coat of paint, as well as small plank and rigging repairs. Together with young people from Gelsenkirchen and experts, your team will undertake these tasks in order to make the boats useable again for the local children and youth. Along with the manual tasks, your team will also learn basic nautical terms. Plenty of trial trips as well as a sailing weekend are part of the itinerary. The main focus of the camp however is the interaction between the volunteers, cultural exchange, and fun
Accomodation & food:
Accommodation: In a large villaCatering: You will cook together with local youth
Location & leisure:
Where: North Rhine-Westphalia; Dortmund 25 km, Cologne 85 kmFree Time: In the youth center you can play foosball and billiards, as well as listen to and create music. Excursions to local cultural sites such as the Zeche Zollverein are planned. In Gelsenkirchen, you will find pools, museums, and bars. Due to its central location in the region, Gelsenkirchen is an ideal starting place for trips to Dortmund, Bochum, Cologne, and Hamburg, as well as to the Netherlands.
Requirements:
You will need a talent for manual tasks and be prepared to work in a group.
The main task is to renovate and renew a local playground with maintenance and construction of new equipment. Other playgrounds in the area of Berglen may also need the team s creativity and handy-work.
Accomodation & food:
The group will stay in the local youth club. You will have access to a kitchen and all necessary sanitary facilities.
Location & leisure:
Berglen is a small village with approx. 5,900 inhabitants and is located 30 km away from Stuttgart, the state capitol of Baden-Wurttemberg. Surrounded by orchards, forests, fields and meadows, the community of Berglen consists of many small villages and farms. The idyllic countryside and location has become a popular recreation area.
Requirements:
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Age:
18-99
Location:
Berglen
Language(s):
English
Airport:
STR: Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany)
Trainstation:
WinnendenThis project is suitable for disabled volunteers
In Bornhoeved, a small village in Schleswig-Holstein, supports the local church community with gardening and manual tasks. Your group will help create a creation garden with an herb spiral, plant several types of plants that are threatened by extinction, renovate a pastorat yard, and help to clean and creatively repaint a large garage. You can be in contact with the local youth through active participation in a confirmation camp as well as a village festival on August 29th and 30th.
Accomodation & food:
You will stay in an empty apartment and have a youth house for cooking, eating, and free time. Meals will be prepared as a group.
Location:
Bornhoeved, 70 km north of Hamburg, 30 km south of Kiel, 50 km northwest of Lubeck.
Free Time:
The large yard of your accommodation serves as a great place for grilling, games, and to have a bonfire. Additionally, you can swim in the lake one kilometer away. On the weekends, trips to the local Baltic Sea beaches as well as the cities of Hamburg, Kiel, and Lubeck are well worth a trip. You can also visit the Karl-May-Festspiele festival in Bad Segeberg.
Two bigger youth accommodation houses are part of Lohra castle complex. The volunteers of the Building Weeks B06 will continue to repair the wooden windows of one of these houses under the professional guidance of an experienced joiner. They will take the windows out, change broken parts of the windows, polish the old colour, coat them with new paint and return them.
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.
The main work during the camp will be the preparation of the light festival; which will be on the last Friday. At the light festival the whole park will be lightened by candles and fire and at different places there will be theatre, music and installations. Preparation works have to be done, such as building up tents, carrying things, playing music to practise for the event, painting signs and so on. Here we need your handicraft and also creative ideas to prepare a little program as a part of the festival. The projects depend on the dynamics of the participants! If you play a musical instrument it would be great if you bring it with you!
Location:
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin 25 km
Terminal:
Berlin or Hamburg
Accommodation:
The volunteers will be accommodated in multi-bed rooms (4-9 beds in a room) in a little building next to the castle.
Special requirements:
It is absolutely necessary to stay until the last day. Early departures are not accepted!
The participants will work on the reconstruction, recultivation and maintenance of the park which had been abandoned for a long time. This will include cutting trees and bushes, reconstructing original paths and small walls, construction fences and plateaus and cutting and collecting grass. Additionally, the works at the facade of the rectory will be continued including plastering, reworking the original profiles and painting. During the second week of the camp the participants will organise one evening a little party for the villagers introducing their home countries and preparing some typical national food. This celebration became for years a good tradition at Parum Rectory and enables an interesting exchange between villagers and international volunteers.
Accomodation & food:
simple conditions, shared roomswith mattresses,bathroom with limited hot water,equipped kitchenThe 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.
The main works will be done in the wood. The volunteers will do various environmental works as well as renovation and construction works on the island and in the forests around the island. Possible tasks are removing bushes and invasive small tree species, collecting rubbish and wood, repairing works and so on. Volunteers should be prepared to be flexible and take part in any work that will support the foresters.
Location:
On the island without electricity Brandenburg, Bernau bei Berlin 15 km
Terminal:
Berlin
Accommodation:
Your accommodation will be very basic. You will sleep in three large tents on camp beds. The infrastructure on the island is very basic without electricity and warm water, not even a warm shower. There is no heating in the tents and on the island you have to use compost toilets. The accommodation is quite isolated so volunteers should come with ideas about how to entertain themselves in the evenings! The foresters of the project have built a nice and comfortable block house where the group will meet and eat
Special remarks:
The island is very isolated and you have to be a real nature lover to participate in this project. You have to use the ferry every day and it stops running about 8 p.m. Please be prepared to not be able to visit Berlin very often! On the island live many permanent campers during the summer. Please respect them.
« 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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