Volunteers will have a chance to get to know various assignments and places. They will fix up local village house and museum by painting and decorating. There will also be some organizing tasks such as preparing an exhibition, renovating local art centre sculpture park and planning and preparing a summer event for local youth together with local young people.
Accomodation & food:
The accommodation will take place in two local youth houses, first week in Soini and second week in Ahtari. There are kitchen and shower facilities and comfortable mattresses for sleeping. Participants will prepare most of their meals themselves in teams.
Location & leisure:
These small towns are in a very beautiful piece of Western Finnish countryside. There are lakes and stunning green nature in this peaceful area.
Requirements:
The registration fee of 40 euros. Volunteers have to have their own travel insurance.
The school surroundings need maintaining so the volunteers will work with seasonal tasks indoors and outdoors. The volunteers can enjoy the Finnish summer and get to know the surrounding nature as well. Please note that this is not a traditional work camp and the tasks vary by the season.
Accomodation & food:
Accommodation will be in dormitory, meals provided. There are possibilities for various creative and other activities. Sauna and swimming facilities are also available.
Location & leisure:
Punkaharju is located in eastern Finland near Savonlinna and it takes about four hours by train from Helsinki. The school is situated in a location of superb natural beauty, right on Punkaharju ridge. It is surrounded on both sides by lakes and magnificent scenery. The area offers excellent opportunities for nature and outdoor activities. The volunteers can join Finnish language and culture presentation.
Requirements:
The volunteers need travel insurance for the duration of their stay. Extra fee 150 euros
The school surroundings need maintaining so the volunteers will work with seasonal tasks indoors and outdoors. Please note that this is not a traditional work camp and the tasks vary by the season.
Accomodation & food:
Accommodation will be in rooms, buffet style meals provided. There are possibilities for various creative and other activities. Sauna and swimming facilities are also available. The place is very suitable for family camp and welcomes parents, single parents or grandparent to join the camp together with a child/children aged 3-13 yrs. Either parent or child need to be able to communicate in English.
Location & leisure:
Punkaharju is located in eastern Finland near Savonlinna and it takes about four hours by train from Helsinki. The school is situated in a location of superb natural beauty, right on Punkaharju ridge. It is surrounded on both sides by lakes and magnificent scenery. The area offers excellent opportunities for nature and outdoor activities. The volunteers can join Finnish language and culture presentation.
Requirements:
The volunteers need travel insurance for the duration of their stay. Extra fee: 150 euros per adult and 75 euros per child (3 yrs)
Age:
18-99
Location:
Punkaharju
Language(s):
English
Airport:
SVL: Savonlinna (Savonlinna, Finland)Whole families, with kids, are allowed.
The volunteer will assist in different tasks according to their skills and interests. They will organize a cultural event such as a small movie festival. Painting the wooden buildings with traditional paint and other maintaining tasks will be carried out during the camps. They use an interesting building method using reed and volunteers can take part in that. If you like nature and old buildings this is a place for you.
Accomodation & food:
Accommodation will be in small wooden building. The volunteers will prepare their meals together.
Location & leisure:
Kuusankoski is a small town next to Kouvola about 130 km north-east from Helsinki. The camp is in a forest on top of the hill in the middle of Kuusankoski town.
Requirements:
The volunteers need travel insurance for the duration of their stay.
Volunteers will assist in landscaping and visitor management. During summer months the number of visitors can exceed 200 000 visitors in Suomenlinna. We have plenty of landscape maintenance tasks in the fortress that cannot be performed by machinery but, instead, by one or more locations where the volunteers will work under the supervision of our gardeners. Landscape maintenance duties are performed outdoors together with our own staff. We will use participatory methods and unite different interest groups in developing new approaches to e.g. social media, interpretation of the Suomenlinna story, cultural heritage education and cultural heritage preservation. With this emphasis, we aim in raising discussion, generating new ideas, actions and involvement to make participants feel that they have a say in preserving our common cultural heritage and how is it taken care of. The results will be used to promote Suomenlinna s World Heritage status.
Accomodation & food:
The volunteers will stay in a hostel, lunches will be provided, dinners prepared by volunteers.
Location & leisure:
Suomenlinna is covering an area of 80 ha and consisting of 200 buildings and 6 km of defensive walls, the fortress stretches over six separate islands. More information: http://www.suomenlinna.fi/en/
Requirements:
The volunteers need to have interest towards World Heritage and prepare themselves before the camp in order to tell about the World Heritage projects in their home countries. The applicants need to write a one page motivation letter explaining why they would like to join the project, if they have any previous experience in WHvolunteering and what could be their contribution to the project.
The work will be to assist in organizing a small local rock festival. The festival is being held for the 18th time on 10.-11.8. The volunteers will assist in practical tasks (simple but sometimes heavy work) in arranging the event. The first week will mostly consist of building the fences and setting up and on the second week tidying up the area afterwards. So if you are interested in rock music and the Finnish countryside, and are ready to work hard in all weather conditions this is the camp for you
Accomodation & food:
The accommodation is at a local youth centre Wilhola within walking distance from the festival area. There is a shared sleeping area. Meals will be cooked together by the volunteers.
Location & leisure:
Jalasjarvi is located in Southern Ostrobothnia and has about 8000 inhabitants. The youth centre has a lot of activities (own movie theatre) and pool table, games etc. Evenings are free and we will arrange some fun activities like sightseeing etc. for you to take part in if you want.
Requirements:
The volunteers need travel insurance for the duration of their stay. Registration fee 40 euros
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