You will help the organizers of the KidoCup 2018 in all phases of the event. Before the event starts, you will set up everything in the Children's Village. You will prepare the accommodation for the guests, set up the sport venue and take over many logistical tasks. The weekend during the KidoCup you will supply the guests with food and drinks. This is a great opportunity to get in contact with the children and teenagers, who are participating in the event. Afterwards you will help to clean up the area.
Accomodation & food:
Your home in the Children's Village will be a community house, equipped with sanitary facilities and a kitchen. Accommodation is in shared rooms on sleeping mats. Please bring your own sleeping bag! Lunch will be provided by the host, breakfast and dinner you will cook by yourselves.
Location & leisure:
Irschenberg is a municipality in the German state of Bavaria, about 46 km southeast of Munich. The region with its alpine landscape attracts many tourists all over the year. Enjoy the beautiful nature and be active with various outdoor activities. You can also visit Munich and Rosenheim or relax at one of the lakes in the region.
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.
You like playing with children and want to make sure that children from Wismar have a great holiday? Then join us and look after children in Wismar. There will be 40 to 100 children, aged 6 to 12, who will take part in the great holiday play event on a daily basis. Every day has its own theme and with your ideas you can help to turn these days, filled with creative events as well as sports events, into a truly remarkable experience for the children. Add international flair to the game weeks by contributing games, songs and creative ideas from your home countries. During the first week you will prepare a press conference and our ideas for games and activities. After that, in the second and third week, you and the educational professionals will look after the children who attend the event and put your planned games into action. Have a look at your adventurous accommodation here: https://wagenburg.wobau-wismar.de) It is located on the outskirts of Wismar (www.wismar.de) and for trips into the city and the area, you will have bikes at your disposal. If you want to have a look at the big sheltered play park, the farmer's barn, follow the link: https://bauernscheune.wobau-wismar.de. You have to have a basic German language skills to be able to communicate with the children in the camp. Most of the camp communication will take place in German and English. Please remember to bring ideas for games and music from your home countries!
Accomodation & food:
You will stay in the „Wagenburg", a small camp with Western style wagons, a barbecue site and clay oven. You cook together.
Location & leisure:
In the „Wagenburg" you can play volleyball and football. For trips to the Baltic Sea and the city centre, you will have bikes at your disposal. The city of Wismar is one of the most beautiful old Hanseatic cities on the Coast of the Baltic Sea. You also have the option of taking trips to Lübeck, Rostock or the island of Poel.
Requirements:
Please bring ideas for games and music from your home countries!
Ostbevern is in the heart of the Münsterland. The Children's and Youth Foundation is looking forward to your help with planning the summer holiday activities for about 150 children, aged 8 to 12. Together with other caregivers, you will offer sports, games and arts and crafts activities for the children. After an introduction and a time for preparation in the first couple of days, you will work with and support the children in the different sections. We happily welcome any special skills, you can contribute. During the holiday games, you will work eight hours a day and have lunch together.
Accomodation & food:
You will stay in premises of scouts. You will cook together.
Location & leisure:
There are plenty of free time activities in Ostbevern: skating rink, BMX park, swimming pool. In the youth centre you can play table soccer, pool and many other games. You can also visit the beautiful towns of Münster und Osnabrück or take a day trip to the Netherlands.
Requirements:
Pedagogical skills and enjoying being around children are necessary requirements for participation. It helps if you are creative, are sporty or have craftsmanship skills.
The AWO have been offering their "Strandfahrten" to the Falckensteiner Strand for over 90 years now. Each time up to 270 children, aged 6 to 13, can participate in a week long adventure (Monday to Friday) with different activities: participating in organised games, playing and exploring the forest and the beach. Each week has its own project theme and different activities going along with it. You will work from Monday to Friday from 9AM to 4PM. In the first week you will have the Monday off while working together with AWO care takers on Tuesday and Wednesday. This will give you a chance to get to know each other and the project. On Thursday and Friday you will prepare week 2 and 3. In these weeks you will also work hand in hand with the AWO caretakers, but organise your own projects within your work camp group, caring for alternating groups of children. This is the time to show your creativity and own ideas. Bring along some songs, games or ideas for arts and crafts inspired by your home countries – this will add to the international atmosphere of the camp. If you enjoy spending time with children, working outside, swimming and like working in a big team, you will have a great time and bring home lots of memories and valuable experiences. The Baltic Sea Youth Village Falckenstein is located on the outskirts of Kiel and very close to the beach of the Kieler Förde. If you want more information on the village visit www.jugenddorf-falckenstein.de (unfortunately this website is only available in English). You will find some pictures from previous "Strandfahrten" here, too. In this project you, together with other caretakers from Germany, will be be responsible for alternating groups of children and thus should have some basic German language skills. The children and also some of the other caretakers do not speak English, but within your work camp group you will speak a lot of English.
Accomodation & food:
Simple cottage with a green roof, big, shared bedroom; communal showers and bathrooms are located in the main building (100m from the accommodation). You will partly cook yourselves, partly there will be catering
Location & leisure:
There are plenty of options for how to spend your evenings in the camp: You can go for a swim in the Baltic Sea, play volleyball, football or table tennis, have relaxing barbecue evenings or take a bus into the city centre of Kiel. A 30min bus trip will take you into Kiel, a city with 200.000 residents and popular tourist destination for tourists from all over the world.
Requirements:
Please bring ideas for games, creative projects and music fromyour home countries.
Workcamp participants are invited to work in different fields: Manual, artistically, pedagogical. During the youth camps, you will have contact with kids from diverse background and join their activities as well. You are requested to be prepared as "ambassador" of the peoples living in your country. It would be helpful to be prepared to offer your own workshop artistically, musically or athletically at home and bring lots of ideas. In addition all volunteers will have the chance to introduce their country in an open evening. You should gather ideas at home and bring material for creating this evening. Further information will be provided after the placement in the workcamp. Beside the announced activities the volunteers will also need to take responsibility by leading groups of young campers in daily works like catering and cleaning.
Study part:
The study part of this workcamp will be dominated mostly by the question about life between past and future, tradition and modernity, small-town-life and global correlations. Working on the "Himmelsfels", always encourage encounters between people from different cultures and diverse background. Religion will be reflected by experience Himmelsfels as place of ecumenical Christian believes in diversity.
Accomodation & food:
There will be basic and simple accommodation. You will be sleeping in caravans. Please bring a sleeping bag. As some summer nights can get cold in Germany, please bring some warm clothes and raingear!
Location & leisure:
The small town Spangenberg is situated between hills in a green countryside in the middle of Germany. Leisure activities will be arranged according the needs of the group. There will be the possibility to visit Kassel, town of the world wide know art exhibition "Documenta".
Age:
18-26
Location:
Spangenberg
Language(s):
English, German
Airport:
FRA: Frankfurt Main (Frankfurt, Germany)Vegetarian food will be available
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.
Every year, the hiking club offers outdoor holiday activities for about 30 children aged 5-12 years. They are very happy to get your support in organizing games for the kids and are looking forward to your creative ideas. Since the children do not speak English, it might be very helpful to know at least a few German words and/or bring games that can be played easily, without difficult explanations or language skills.Secondly, the area of the "seven ponds" needs to be taken care of. It is an area in the midst of the forest with a few lakes, terrace-like arranged and flowing into one another through small streams. In 2014, the first workcamp in Heidesheim took care of the area, which was overgrown with bushes and trees. Four years later, maintenance work is needed again: You will clear vegetation, cut free the lakes and paths in order to be accessible for visitors.
Accomodation & food:
The group will stay in the sports hall; all necessary sanitary facilities are provided. You will be able to use the kitchen of the hiking club's house, which is located at your working place. For transport from the sports hall to the work place/kitchen, bicycles and a car (for 9 people) will be arranged.
Location & leisure:
Heidesheim is a community with approximately 7600 inhabitants. It is located near the well-known river Rhine. You can go hiking or cycling and enjoy the beautiful Rhine valley with its picturesque towns and castles. Heidesheim is only 10km from Mainz, the state capital and university town with many cafés, restaurants and clubs.
Requirements:
Please provide a Motivation Letter together with your application: Why would you like to take part? Do you have first experiences with working with kids and/or in environmental projects?
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