You work in teams in an institution for people with disabilities run by the "Sozialstiftung Köpenick" a foundation in Berlin. You work 4 hours a day. The highlight of your time here will be a big summer party. One of your main jobs is contributing to the preparation for the party. You will have a chance to be creative and contribute your ideas and skills for example by creating decoration or help organise and realise a music or theatre project. In the third week you will have the chance to take part in a day trip for people with and without disabilities. The additional fee will be 50,-€ and has to be transferred to the following bank account: ijgd Berlin Bank für Sozialwirtschaft Berlin BIC: BFSWDE33BER IBAN: DE94 1002 0500 0003 1175 00 Verwendungszweck: Cityticket 78101, your first name and your family name. You can also pay this fee in person at the ijgd-office in the camp.
Accomodation & food:
Alternative accommodation in Berlin. In the first week, food will be provided for you by the hostel. The other meals you will cook together.
Location & leisure:
Berlin has a lot to offer, day and night! In order to enable you to follow the different interests in your group, you will all receive a Cityticket for the time of the camp. With this ticket you can use all public transport in the whole of Berlin.
Requirements:
The additional fee will be 50,-€ and has to be transferred to the following bank account: ijgd Berlin Bank für Sozialwirtschaft Berlin BIC: BFSWDE33BER IBAN: DE94 1002 0500 0003 1175 00 Verwendungszweck: Cityticket 78101, your first name and your family name. You can also pay this fee in person at the ijgd-office in the camp.
Together with children aged 8-16, your group will revive the Middle Ages and create an adventure to remember. During the first week, you will prepare the tented village in small groups, build up tents, restore the castle, design clothes and create jewellery. In the second week you will then revive the Middle Ages with knights, damsels and jesters. Your imagination is the key to make the event and the (role play) games a success.
Accomodation & food:
You will stay in a school building in Edewecht. There will be two class rooms with camp beds for you, a big school kitchen, a common room and an outside area with barbecue place. Bathrooms and toilets are also part of the school building. You will cook together.
Location & leisure:
Edewecht is a small place in the beautiful landscape of Ammerland. You can get to know the area by bike as there is plenty of well constructed cycling paths. The university town of Oldenburg is only 20 km away and easily reached by public transport. On the weekends you can take trips to Bremen, Hamburg or the North Sea. www.edewecht.de, www.ammerland.de, www.oldenburg.de
Requirements:
You have to have basic German language skills, be interested in craftsmanship and enjoy being around children. You have to be able to ride a bike.
The „Pegasus" (a center for culture and free time activities) is located in the center of Senftenberg and is the city's biggest center for children and teenagers. During the summer break in Brandenburg the center offers different workshops for children aged 7 to 12, which all have the goal of reaching a weekly result by the end of the workshop. It's your job to support the workshops with your ideas, creativity and hands-on mentality. You can help to form the workshops on a methodological level, contribute content or help put the ideas into action. It would be nice if you had some skilled craftsmanship to bring to the table, because there are always small repairs that need to be dealt with. After work, the international work camp helps you to improve your German language skills. The daily German lessons last two hours each day and help you to deal with everyday language. Your language teachers are all native speakers and have experience in teaching German as a foreign language.
Accomodation & food:
You will stay in shared rooms in the cultural and free time centre Pegasus. You will sleep on mattresses or camp beds. You will cook together.
Location & leisure:
There are plenty of different options for free time activities, so there should be something for everyone in it. If you don't feel like bathing in the Senftenberger lake, you can cool down in the local skiing hall. The amazing landscape of the Spreewald has a lot to offer, too: You can take canoeing trips or just relax on the Spreewaldkahn (Spreewald boat). The historical town of Dresden is perfect for sight-seeing or shopping trips. You can get there easily by train within an hour. For more information, take a look at this website: www.pegasus-senftenberg.de
Requirements:
300€ additional fee for the language course. Participants must have basic German language skills.
There are SOS Children's Villages world-wide, where children, young people and families in need find help. The SOS Children's Village Saar in Merzig is one of them. The children, who live here, are placed in SOS Children's Village families, because their biological parents cannot look after them. In the last couple of years, new help programs, such as assisted living facilities, community meetings, afternoon care etc. have been added. This is your chance to help out in the Children's Village by organizing and carrying out the holiday program for the children in the village. You will take trips together, play games, carry out arts and crafts activities, contribute your own ideas for games, dances and songs. For the second project craftsmanship skills are wanted! The table tennis hall for the children and youths has to be redesigned. With the support of an expert, the hall will be modernized, renovated and turned into a cozy place the children can use for their free time activities.
Accomodation & food:
You will stay in the big hall of he community centre on the premise of the SOS Children's Village. You will cook together.
Location & leisure:
There are plenty of free time activities: You can go for a cycle, go to the open-air swimming pool or the climbing park. You can also take a sight-seeing trip to the cities of Saarbrücken, Trier, Metz and Luxemburg. There is also plenty to see in Merzig-Wadern: The wolves outdoor enclose, the Cloef, the famous Saarschleife etc. From there it is only a short trip to castle Montclair, which is the object of lots of legends and myths. If you want to get sporty, you can pack your swimming clothes and cycle to the reservoir in Losheim. If you like a relaxed evening, spend a bit of time in the old town of Merzig.
Requirements:
You have to have basic German language skills, be interested in working with children and enjoy being around them. It also helps if you are creative, sporty and/or have craftsmanship skills.
Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg is the biggest riverine island in Europe and a vivid multicultural neighbourhood. Projects and events, like IBA, Dockville/Artville or 48h Wilhelmsburg, have been influencing various places, people and themes in the neighbourhood. The housing and integration of a high number of refugees also concerns the people in Wilhelmsburg. Your job is to catch on film, what is special about Wilhelmsburg, in particular how people, who live and work here, cope with the sociocultural changes and challenges in Wilhelmsburg. Experienced media educators will support you in developing your ideas, learning how to handle camera technology and editing scenes. Towards the end of the project you will show your contributions in your own show, which will be broadcasted in Hamburg's citizen television TIDE (www.tidenet.de). Different from the other film workshops offered by ijgd, where you can choose a topic, this workshop has a set topic. Take a look at the following websites and think about, if you want to catch on film what impact sociocultural changes can have on a neighbourhood. http://www.hamburg.com/explore/districts/wilhelmsburg/ (English) http://www.hamburg.de/wilhelmsburg/ (German) http://www.hamburg.de/sehenswertes-wilhelmsburg/ (German) http://www.iba-hamburg.de/en/iba-in-english.html http://en.msdockville.de/ http://musikvondenelbinseln.de/48h (German). We would like you to show different angles to the story and make and effort to give a voice to people who are rarely listend to. If you want to get a glimpse of what it's like, you can take a look at the films produced in previous workshops: 2017 http://www.tidenet.de/tv/sendungen/schnappfisch?id=6224 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gBpuW0Zrlk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC_kriaczSU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt26UuAUXPI 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD47uvOcyyE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXWwMGEYIt4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akDtj8iZ37I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3_iTZ5q-y0 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bul3KwhhtBg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F156S75j1Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Y2jAy6z8Q
Special requirement:
You have to have good language skills in English, be interested in filming, technology and editing.
Accomodation & food:
You will sleep on air mattresses in a modern youth centre and work in the media centre only 500m away. You cook together.
Location & leisure:
You will stay in the youth centre and work in the media education centre in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg. From here you can easily reach most tourist attractions and sights of Germany's second biggest city. The weekend is great for taking a trip to the North Sea or the Baltic Sea.
Requirements:
380.00 € additional fee (has to be paid in cash on the campsite); smoking and drinking alcohol is strictly prohibited in the youth centre and the media education centre.
The adventure play park Holznagelhausen is a holiday event organized by the local municipality of Veitshöchheim. Together with other volunteers you will look after about 100 children, all aged 7 – 13, for two weeks. There will be 14 groups on the big premise; you will build wooden huts, offer sports and workshops (football, baseball, making pizza, arts and crafts or what you can think of). This will be lots of fun! The highlight is night in the huts with night-time hike. You can contribute ideas and skills, learn how to organize a youth event and work in a big team. You can also learn a new language and meet a lot of new people. Note: This camp is partly funded by the Franco-German Youth Office.
Accomodation & food:
You will stay in shared rooms in the Naturfreundehaus Am Kalten Brunnen. You will cook together.
Location & leisure:
There is a very nice open air swimming pool in Veitshöchheim, you can take boat trips on the Main and meet lots of nice people. You can reach Würzburg by train in only 10min. Enjoy its amazing tourist attractions (e.g. Castle, Käppele, Residenz) or go for a shopping trip, watch a movie in one of the cinemas or enjoy the nightlife. Close by you can also find a climbing garden, a go-kart track, various youth centres, recreational areas as well as cycling and skating paths. On the weekends you can take a trip to the big cities of Nürnberg or Frankfurt. So come and enjoy!
Requirements:
Basic German language skills and enjoying spending time around children is an absolute must for this camp.
The youth and children's department Weinsberg organizes the two-week children's city event „Gnurpsel City" for children aged 9 to 12. The children's city has all institutions and public bodies a real life city has (www.gnurpselcity.de). The children elect a mayor, have their own currency, look for jobs or enjoy free time activities such as sports and culture. Your job is to look after the children in the different play areas (mosaic shop, painting, tailor shop, wood shop) as well as help with taking the tent city down, once the event is over. If you have any special craftsmanship skills or creative skills, please let us know in your application, maybe we can incorporate them!
Accomodation & food:
You will stay in a youth centre with a kitchen and a gym with showers. You will cook together, but during the time of the children's city, you will get served lunch.
Location & leisure:
The public transport network in the area is good for making little trips. The youth centre is in direct proximity to the train station. You can take trips to Heilbronn (Experimenta etc.), Stuttgart (Zoo Wilhelma, Porsche and Daimler Museum), Heidelberg with its castle and the beautiful old town, Ludwigsburg, which is known for his Baroque beauty, Sinsheim with its 3D cinema and an automobile and technical museum,.There is also a climbing hall in Heilbronn and one in Weinsberg.
Requirements:
You have to have basic German language skills and some pedagogic skills. Your working hours will be 12 times for about 8 hours.
Together with the refugees we want to organize common activities, where the women and children are taken into consideration. In addition, our goal is to get in contact with the young members of the local protestant church to raise greater awareness for the refugees and to break the isolation of the refugees. We will prepare contact with students of the university that are willing to take care of the medical issues of the refugees and to pursue the legal issues of the asylum law. We will also get in contact with students of the University who medicate people without legal status. We especially invite volunteers to participate, who are able to speak Turkish, Arabic or Farsi. Besides organizing common activities with the refugees, we plan to construct some furniture made from old palettes together. They can be used outside, and will be nucleus of a meeting point of the inhabitants of the center.
Accomodation & food:
The workcamp will be hosted by a local protestant church which is already involved in working with the refugees. The premises of the church are plentiful and volunteers will have a lot of space for sleeping, cooking, dining, relaxing, and for indoor and outdoor activities.
Location & leisure:
Giessen, a city populated mostly by students located in the mid-west of Germany. It is easy to reach via Frankfurt airport and Frankfurt Hahn airport.
Leisure Time:
There are plenty of possibilities for leisure time activities: playing football or canoeing as well as possibilities to visit some other cities. (e.g. Marburg, Frankfurt or Heidelberg).
Age:
18-26
Location:
Giessen
Language(s):
English, German
Airport:
FRA: Frankfurt Main (Frankfurt, Germany)Vegetarian food will be available
« 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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