Main focus of the Workcamp is the renovating the inside and outside of the „playhouse". Especially the wood paneling on the outside needs to be refurbished: sanding off the wood and repainting with preservative. The doors need a new paint job as well. On the inside a lot of repainting work is waiting as well and you can get artistic and creative on some walls, ceilings and doors. Depending on the work progress you might also help with greening some parts of the playhouse to improve the indoor climate. Apart from the work on the playhouse, there are lots of smaller projects waiting in the outdoor area of the Aki that can be tackled by the volunteers according to the progress on the playhouse.
Accomodation & food:
The group will stay in the playhouse directly on the AKI area, where there is enough space for separate sleeping rooms. Kitchen, toilets and showers are provided. However sanitary facilities are quite basic.
Location & leisure:
The adventure playground is located on the edge of Raitelsberg, which was built in the 1920s as a working class quarter in the eastern part of Stuttgart. It is only a few minutes to walk to the next subway station, the "Schlosspark" the Stuttgart's biggest park area and a mineral spring spa. Stuttgart has about 600,000 inhabitants and is the state-capital of BW. From museums, to castles and parks, to an afternoon spent shopping, the city offers something for everyone. Just a short train ride away you can enjoy the variety of nature around Stuttgart. Take a visit to some of the other interesting towns in the area, like Tuebingen (approximately 1 hour away) and Ludwigsburg (approximately 30 minutes away).
Carpentry - Restoration of the roof construction of the oldest part of the manorThere is still existing one part of the manor which walls remain from the previous baroque building. The current roof construction and the roofing are dating back only to the early 20th century, but unfortunately the construction was underdesigned so that it got broken in the meantime. Last year volunteers removed already the roofing and the old roof construction. Under the professional guidance of a carpenter the participants of the Building Weeks 2018 will continue these works, in particular construct a new roof construction and reroof the building.Because it will be sometimes not possible that the whole group will work on the roof at the same time the other volunteers will carry out in these times works on the ground and in the garden as well as small renovation works in the manor.
Accomodation & food:
shared rooms with beds, warm shower and toilets, no washing machines available,The 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:
Gantikow Manor is situated 100 kilometres north of Berlin. The house is surrounded by a nice village with a medieval church and a lake. The manor is a picturing example of a former baroque building, changed in the late 19th century in neo-baroque style. Over centuries, the houses belonged to the Earls von Platen, which sold it in 1872 to a civil family which started soon, in 1877, with the modernisation of the house and kept it in their ownership till 1945. After World War II, the house was first used as a refugee shelter and after that the community used the house as a village centre, hosting the community office, the local store, the school, the kindergarten, the doctor's room, the kitchen of the agricultural cooperative and several apartments. With its many rooms the large building is perfect to be used as a Youth Accommodation House. The house is surrounded by a beautiful garden with old trees which reached originally up to the lake. Around the Manor house in Gantikow, in the beautiful garden, with its old trees, there is much space for outside activities and leisure time. A small lake is situated nearby the old building, where it is possible to go swimming. And also the surrounding area with its many lakes and unique small towns invites for trips.
Requirements:
Motivation letter related to the project and CV + photo required
Age:
18-70
Location:
Gantikow
Language(s):
English, German
Airport:
BER: Berlin - Metropolencode (Berlin, Germany)Vegetarian food will be available
It will be your task to help preparing the area that will be used for the kindergarten. Therefore various equipment is needed: A place with a roof, a fence, a meeting / breakfast place, and so on. They have lots of ideas what could be done! To keep the impact on the forest low, all these things will be constructed with natural materials: mostly wood, stones, etc. To get an idea, you can have a look on their existing kindergartens here: http://www.wichtel-waldkinder.de/waldkindergarten-heimsheim/
Accomodation & food:
The town provides a 100sqm flat in the center of Oeschelbronn. There are four rooms with camp beds, a kitchen, a shower and a bathroom. You will have the possibility to use the showers in the town's gym as well, if you want to use additional ones. From the accommodation, it is just a few hundred meters to the next supermarket; your work place, at the edge of the forest, is about 15 minutes by foot.
Location & leisure:
Niefern-Oeschelbronn is a small community, but it offers everything you need. It is surrounded by nature and close to the town of Pforzheim and the Unesco World Heritage Site "Maulbronn Monastery". The cities of Karlsruhe and Stuttgart are both not far, as well as the Black Forest where you can go hiking.
You will help renovate and renew local playgrounds. Together with the "Bauhof" (builders' yard) team you will mainly be working on the renovation, maintenance and construction of new playground equipment, e.g. building a new playing hut for the kids. Other tasks may also need the team's creativity and handy-work.
Accomodation & food:
The work camp group will be staying at the local youth club. In the club's house you will have access to a kitchen and all necessary sanitary facilities. Please bring your own sleeping bag!
Location & leisure:
Berglen is a small community with around 6,100 inhabitants located 30 km from Stuttgart, the capital of the state 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 have become a popular recreation area. The cities of Stuttgart, Heidelberg or Tuebingen can be visited on a weekend trip from here.
During the 1st week of your workcamp a "Creative Workshop" is planned, under the instruction of an artist from Halle/Saale. You will work creatively with colours, paper and fabrics in the rooms of the Cranach Courtyards Here you can find more information: https://lutherstadt-wittenberg.de/kultur/luthergedenkstaetten/cranach-hoefe/. You will get the opportunity to learn more about the story of Luther and Cranach. In the next two weeks, you will do construction and maintenance works in the forest of Wittenberg, like repairing and building wooden constructions on playgrounds, renewing fences or animal enclosures. Volunteers should be prepared to be flexible and take part in any work that will support the project. During the weeks outside you will go to the work by bike everyday. Therefore, it is REALLY important that you are able to ride a bicycle!
Accomodation & food:
Accommodation:You will live in 2-4 bed rooms. Bed linen will be provided; there is no need to bring a sleeping bag.
Food:
Self-catering. Recipes and cooking ideas are welcomed.
Location & leisure:
Leipzig, Berlin or Potsdam are about 70 km from Lutherstadt Wittenberg. There are other nice places to visit in the area: a lake, the river Elbe and the Wörlitzer Park, where you can spend your free time.
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!You will work together with two project leaders and volunteers of the castle Dreilützow. They will join your group like members of the workcamp.
Accomodation & food:
The volunteers will be accommodated in multi-bed rooms (4-9 beds in a room) in a little building next to the castle. This house is only for workcamp group. The rooms can be locked. There is the possibility to do the laundry.You will be catered by Schloss Dreilützow, if there will be quite a few vegetarians, they will be easily catered for. Nevertheless there will be the opportunity to cook together in the evenings if you want to.
Location & leisure:
Wittenburg, the nearest town is about 4 km away and the closest big town is Schwerin, about 25 km away.
Age:
18-26
Location:
Dreiluetzow
Language(s):
English
Airport:
HAM: Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany)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. A small kitchen is available and food can be cooked on a gas hob cooker. There is also a fridge in the kitchen, so don't worry about the food. Please bring recipes and spices / special ingredients from your country for your turn to cook.
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!!!!!!
You will mainly work in the canyon "Butzerbachgraben" crossing the village. It has been a real jungle, so they already started to do some forest work to make it accessible again. Your tasks will be to improve several hundred meters of the path leading through the canyon (construct wooden steps and handrails, install educational panels and build up places to rest (with wooden benches). If there is time enough, you might also create an outdoor classroom for the primary school nearby. You will work with some local volunteers; therefore you will also work on Saturdays (as many locals are available) but will have another day off during the week. The work can be physically hard in parts and you will get dirty. But you will work in the shadow which can be quite helpful in summer.
Accomodation & food:
You will stay in several rooms of the village community centre. These cosy rooms in the top floor are usually dedicated to the local youth or to local associations. One room will become the living room, the other one the sleeping room. There is a kitchen on the same floor but you have to descend two floors to get to the toilets and showers. You can also sit outside and make a barbecue or a campfire.
Location & leisure:
Butzweiler is a village 10 km far from Trier with 1.500 inhabitants in a beautiful landscape. The area is well known for hiking and other outdoor activities. In the village you can find a small supermarket, pubs and restaurants, a primary school and many different associations with a very active village life. The local inhabitants are already very curious to get to know you. For sure you will be invited to several parties and other activities. In the leisure time excursions (e.g. to Trier with its famous Roman sights) or special hiking trips (exploring the rest of the canyon with waterfalls, caves and the ruins of an old castle) are possible.
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