You mainly work in green area around the centre. Concrete tasks will be constructing and setting up new wooden benches, improving the paths, some gardening work and maybe maintenance work of the sports field. Depending on the weather conditions there might be some indoor renovation work as well.
Accomodation & food:
You will stay in several wooden tepees for five persons each. Mats are provided. In the centre you will have your own kitchen and living room and sanitary facilities. For the free time you will find perfect conditions: an indoor climbing wall, billiard, plenty of outdoor facilities (basketball, football, volleyball…). The public swimming pool is just nearby.
Location & leisure:
Kell am See 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 (close to the educational centre). 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. The region also offers plenty of historic sites (castles, museums….) and you will do a hiking trip to the Grimburg Castle where you can spend the night. 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.
In this workcamp in the heart of the Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park, east of Hamburg, you will be entrusted with many aspects of nature. You ll get to know many different ecosystems and will work on renaturation tasks in a forest and on a moor. You ll also build small dams on the moor, clear heather areas free from growing shrubbery, build fences, get rid of unpopular black cherries from woodlands and create nests for birds. Passionate and experienced nature experts from the project management Integrierte Station Lauenburgische Landschaften , WWF, the Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park and the town of Molln (Uhlenkolk) will be on board to offer support. This workcamp is for true nature lovers, since you ll be sleeping in wooden huts that aren t completely closed and will therefore definitely need a warm sleeping bag. Cooking and eating together, as well as many free-time activities, will also take place outside.
Accomodation & food:
You ll be staying in basic wooden huts i bring your thermal mat and sleeping bag. You will cook your own meals together.
Location & leisure:
Molln lies in the wonderful Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park , with its unique landscape and appealing lakes, which offer the chance to go swimming or canoeing. Besides this, in your free time you could go on a bat or bird-spotting excursion. The world heritage town of Lubeck and the metropolis Hamburg are also not too far away.
Requirements:
Work clothes and waterproof shoes are absolutely necessary. Fitness for physically demanding work is required, as is the ability to ride a bicycle.
You will do painting works at different places, like the graveyard wall in Winterlingen, in the sports hall and in local Kindergartens. Another task will be the paving of the so called "Winkele-Wege", small paths connecting the main roads. Besides you will do different works in the nature and green areas in and around Winterlingen.
Accomodation & food:
You will be accommodated in the newly renovated "Kaplaneihaus". The house has four shared rooms (max.6 people) and three double rooms. Each room has its own bathroom. A big common room and a well-equipped kitchen are also provided. Every morning a bus shuttle will take you to your working place.
Location & leisure:
Winterlingen is situated in the nature reserve "Obere Donau", offering beautiful hiking trails and various castles to visit. The community has a good infrastructure with shopping possibilities, sports facilities and the biggest natural outdoor pool of Baden-Wurttemberg. On the weekends you can visit the university town Tubingen, Stuttgart or spend a day near Lake Constance.
Age:
18-99
Location:
Winterlingen, 72470
Language(s):
English
Airport:
STR: Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany)This project is suitable for disabled volunteers
Nearby the youth accommodation houses which are part of Lohra Castle complex there is a campsite which can be used by groups of youngsters, too. An abandoned former agricultural building will be rebuilt into a sanitary house for campers. Therefore it is necessary to construct a water line to this building. An excavator will dig the line and the volunteers will accompany this work by collecting stones and bringing in an insulating layer of sand. Later they will under the guidance of a craftsman lay the water pipes and put afterwards the material which had been digged out back into the ditch. The remaining material will be used to fill holes and to level the ground at other parts of the castle. Furthermore the participants will take care of the outdoor area.
Accomodation & food:
shared rooms with 2 - 5 beds in 3 guest houses, warm shower (limited hot water),1 camp kitchen (cold water), coal-burning stoves
Location & leisure:
Lohra Castle is situated in the heart of Germany in Northern Thuringia. The castle, which is surrounded by a scenic hilly landscape, is located on the edge of a nature reserve area. Being one of the largest castles in Thuringia, the history of Lohra Castle begins in the Middle Age. The castle is more than 1000 years old. Today, it includes 20 buildings from different times: medieval fortifications, remnants of a tower from the 11th century, a roman chapel, a manor from the Renaissance period as well as stables and granaries from the 19th century. The ensemble is situated in the centre of a beautiful forest. For years Lohra Castle was vacant. In the 1990s Open Houses started to restore the castle and to revive it by cultural activities. Since that time, a large number of Workcamps, Building Weeks, art-workshops, exhibitions, concerts and international meetings took place in the castle.
Age:
18-99
Location:
Großlohra, 99759, amt lohra 6
Language(s):
English
Airport:
LEJ: Leipzig Halle (Leipzig, Germany)
Trainstation:
Gebra/hainleite (train station), großlohra, friedrichslohra/wartehalle (bus station)Vegetarian food will be available
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.
Accomodation & food:
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.
Location & leisure:
The workcamp is situated 25 km north of Berlin in a landscape consisting of woods and surrounded by several lakes. Volunteers can go swimming in one of the lakes. There are lots of opportunities for outdoor sport activities like soccer, table-tennis and volleyball.Please be prepared not to be able to visit Berlin very often. This is a camp for Nature Lovers!!!!!!
The work in Klein Dammerow will mostly consist of gardening and cleaning up the historical park around the house, which has been unused for a long time. Year by year, Open Houses brings back to life another part of the huge garden area. The participants will mow the lawn, cut bushes and trees and reconstruct paths. Beside that the volunteers will carry out small handcraft works as repair a storage house for fire wood, paint fences and similar tasks.The participants should be aware of the fact that the works will take place outdoor, also in case of bad weather.
Accomodation & food:
common sleeping room with mattresses, warm showers and toilets
Location & leisure:
Klein Dammerow Manor is located between Berlin and the Baltic Sea and surrounded by nature reserves with many fields, woods, ponds and rivers. The Manor is a very interesting brick building from 1892/93 with a beautiful interior. The walls are covered with clay and painted with lime casein paint. The historical wooden floor planks are revealed and renovated. Most of the rooms are equipped with historical furniture, what gives the house a magnificent attraction.In the huge garden surrounding the Manor House a stone-oven invites to experience conventional bakery, and the fireplace assures nice evenings in the nature, too. The sports area with a football-ground and volleyball-net is just beside. The participants can also enjoy their leisure time discovering the Mecklenburg Lake District. This place is ideal for having a great summer.
Age:
18-99
Location:
Buchberg ot klein dammerow, 19395, am ahrendsberg 8
Language(s):
English
Airport:
RLG: Laage (Laage, Germany)
Trainstation:
Klein dammerow bei retzow bus stationVegetarian food will be available
In the last years with the help of several workcamps there was created a new conference room. It is set up in a sustainable manner, which means that are only used ecological materials. Now there is a courtyard ready to be designed as a perfect room for (outdoor) recreation and studies. Therefore we will work with wood, earth, rocks to create a little stage and some paths. We will build a landscape in Japanese stile, with additional hut for serving tee ceremony. We can use plants, stones and sculptures. As every year we are invited to get to know the local Perma Culture garden and do some gardening there. While you look after the plants, there this the possibility to harvest fruits. Of course there is also the opportunity to get to know about the idea of a Permaculture with its, plants, animals and environment.Therefore we are looking for 12 motivated young people who are interested in handicrafts, advanced training and gardening/landscaping.Study part: How to create a productive garden which grows plants and feeds animals in a way that only a minimum input of energy and resources are required to achieve maximum sustainability to the environment? Interesting ecological and cultural projects/information from your country is very welcome.
Accomodation & food:
The participants are accommodated in the big seminar room. Food will be prepared together in the big kitchen of the seminar house.
Location & leisure:
The afternoons and evenings, also weekends are free for personal use: sports, fieldtrips in the region and to Freiberg, swimming.
In collaboration with the employees of the Wahnbach reservoir management authority, you will be undertaking various conservation projects around the reservoir. Firstly, the touch-me-not around the tributaries must be removed, to avoid it driving out other local plant species. Secondly, you ll be building birdhouses and repairing the barriers all around the Wahnbach reservoir. If there s time, you ll be checking over the sign posts along nearby paths and renewing them if necessary.
Accomodation & food:
You ll be staying in an idyllic but remote scouts house in rooms with several beds. You ll cook your own meals together.
Location & leisure:
The camp is in a very nice region of Germany: rural, but also with big cities like Cologne, Bonn and Dusseldorf all nearby. It s therefore very easy to go on many different day trips during the camp. In the town of Much (10km away) there is an outdoor swimming pool, and the scouts house has large outside grounds with a camp-fire area. Other cities along the river Rhein include Koblenz and Mainz.
« The most beautiful thing about volunteering obviously is the people you meet… the helpfulness the understanding…there is always someone who puts a plate of food in front of you if you say you are not hungry and not in the mood, or gives you a pep talk or simply a hug. »
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