Main work will be in the forest, as maintenance of the area where the site of the Nature Friends is located, or in the house itself. Participants will be doing various manual works to prepare the area and the house for leisure activities of groups coming from the city. Time of work will be 5-6 hours daily, excluding Saturday and Sunday.
Accomodation & food:
Participants will live in a house with several bed-rooms, kitchen, bathroom, showers. Cooking, cleaning, shopping etc. will be done by the group itself. Like in each workcamp, accommodation, food and travel-costs for group excursions are free as well as pedagogical materials.
Location & leisure:
The camp is located on a wooded-hill less than 3 km from the city centre. Marburg is an historical, picturesque university town, 100 km north of Frankfurt am Main. Among the ca. 82.000 inhabitants, 25.000 or more are students from all over the world.
Requirements:
The project is not conceived for absolute beginners. Participants must be already able to communicate in German at least for daily needs. They also must be willing to communicate with each other only in German all along the camp and not only during the lessons. Extra-fee of 160euro to be paid upon arrival. A certificate for participating in a project with language-course will be given at the end of the camp.
Main work will be in the forest, as maintenance of the area where the site of the Nature Friends is located, or in the house itself. Participants will be doing various manual works to prepare the area and the house for leisure activities of groups coming from the city. Time of work will be 5-6 hours daily, excluding Saturday and Sunday.
Accomodation & food:
Participants will live in a house with several bed-rooms, kitchen, bathroom, showers. Cooking, cleaning, shopping etc. will be done by the group itself. Like in each workcamp, accommodation, food and travel-costs for group excursions are free as well as pedagogical materials.
Location & leisure:
The camp is located on a wooded-hill less than 3 km from the city centre. Marburg is an historical, picturesque university town, 100 km north of Frankfurt am Main. Among the ca. 82.000 inhabitants, 25.000 or more are students from all over the world.
Requirements:
The project is not conceived for absolute beginners. Participants must be already able to communicate in German at least for daily needs. They also must be willing to communicate with each other only in German all along the camp and not only during the lessons. Extra-fee of 160euro to be paid upon arrival. A certificate for participating in a project with language-course will be given at the end of the camp.
Main work will be in the forest, as maintenance of the area where the site of the Nature Friends is located, or in the house itself. Participants will be doing various manual works to prepare the area and the house for leisure activities of groups coming from the city. Time of work will be 5-6 hours daily, excluding Saturday and Sunday.
Accomodation & food:
Participants will live in a house with several bed-rooms, kitchen, bathroom, showers. Cooking, cleaning, shopping etc. will be done by the group itself. Like in each workcamp, accommodation, food and travel-costs for group excursions are free as well as pedagogical materials.
Location & leisure:
The camp is located on a wooded-hill less than 3 km from the city centre. Marburg is an historical, picturesque university town, 100 km north of Frankfurt am Main. Among the ca. 82.000 inhabitants, 25.000 or more are students from all over the world.
Requirements:
The project is not conceived for absolute beginners. Participants must be already able to communicate in German at least for daily needs. They also must be willing to communicate with each other only in German all along the camp and not only during the lessons. Extra-fee of 160euro to be paid upon arrival. A certificate for participating in a project with language-course will be given at the end of the camp.
The castle is surrounded by a vast green area and the volunteers will help in the maintenance of it, The tasks will be mowing and collecting the grass.
Accomodation & food:
ACCOMMODATION:shared rooms with 2 - 5 beds in 3 guest houses, warm shower (limited hot water), 1 camp kitchen (cold water), coal-burning stovesFOODThe meals will be prepared together as they are part of the community life, what means that every participant will be responsible for the meal at least once during its stay. So it would be very nice if the participants could bring typical recipes from home in order to introduce each other to the preparation of food from all over the world.
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 the castle Lohra begins in the Middle Age. The castle is more than 1,000 years old. Today, it includes twenty buildings from different times: medieval fortifications, remnants of a tower from the 11th century, a Romanesque chapel, a manor house from the Renaissance period as well as stables and granaries from the 19th and the early 20th centuries. 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, exhibitions, concerts and other activities with international participants took place in the castle.LEISURE TIMEThe camp places are mostly situated in small villages in rural areas, so the participants should not expect busy places and normal city activities for the leisure time during the working days. Small trips in walking distance are possible in the afternoon. On the weekends it is possible to organise an excursion to nearby cities or to have other leisure activities.
Age:
18-35
Location:
Großlohra, germany
Language(s):
English, German
Airport:
LEJ: Leipzig Halle (Leipzig, Germany)This project is suitable for disabled volunteersVegetarian food will be available
Support a Bavarian village in the organization of their annual wine festival ( Weinfest ) In one part of this workcamp, you will help the community of the village of Tauberzell in the organisation of their 2019 festival. Another task for your group will be to work together with a local association in maintaining and preserving the natural landscape surrounding the village.
Accomodation & food:
You will be accommodated in the villages old inn that s not used any more. There are several rooms you can use for sleeping, as well as a kitchen and bathrooms. Please bring your own sleeping bag
Location & leisure:
The village of Tauberzell is part of the community of Adelshofen in the southern German region of Franconia. The region is known for its wine, a rich tradition of beer brewing and other local culinary specialities. Nature lovers can find several hiking trails in the beautiful surrounding landscape. Rothenburg ob der Tauber, well known for its well-preserved medieval old town, is just 10km from Tauberzell. The cities of Nuremberg and Bamberg are not too far away either and might be visited on weekends.
Main work will be in the forest, as maintenance of the area where the site of the Nature Friends is located, or in the house itself. Participants will be doing various manual works to prepare the area and the house for leisure activities of groups coming from the city. Time of work will be 5-6 hours daily, excluding Saturday and Sunday.
Accomodation & food:
Participants will live in a house with several bed-rooms, kitchen, bathroom, showers. Cooking, cleaning, shopping etc. will be done by the group itself. Like in each workcamp, accommodation, food and travel-costs for group excursions are free as well as pedagogical materials.
Location & leisure:
The camp is located on a wooded-hill less than 3 km from the city centre. Marburg is an historical, picturesque university town, 100 km north of Frankfurt am Main. Among the ca. 82.000 inhabitants, 25.000 or more are students from all over the world.
Requirements:
The project is not conceived for absolute beginners. Participants must be already able to communicate in German at least for daily needs. They also must be willing to communicate with each other only in German all along the camp and not only during the lessons. Extra-fee of 160euro to be paid upon arrival. A certificate for participating in a project with language-course will be given at the end of the camp.
Your help is requested in the further development of a project called "Garden of Paradise" for children. It is a yard designed according the concept of "Naschgarten". In this "snack garden", children can play like in an adventure park but they can also plant vegetables and fruit and then eat as they like. This year we can harvest fruits and finish this garden. Another project will be to build a playground for volleyball. We plan that volunteers of the workcamp will be the first playing a match there !It's manual work outside, sometimes with heavy tools. This project is a co-operation with the town council of Blomberg and the local EUWATEC GmbH, offering employment schemes.In previous workcamps the international volunteers helped to improve the play and sporting opportunities around the local youth center. A BMX course and a climbing park for the children has been already completed.
Study part:
We can learn about pedagogics of nature how it is practiced in the youth center. Beside this we ae invited to a cultural program, which offers us the opportunity to get to know Blomberg and its region.
Accomodation & food:
Accommodation will be carried out in a holiday village. Accommodation always includes rooms with beds and cooking facilities. Sufficient sanitation facilities will be available, too. Please bring a sleeping bag or a warm blanket with you.
Location & leisure:
Blomberg has about 16.000 inhabitants and is situated in the eastern part of North Rhine Westphalia, a region which is characterized by farms, hills (up to 500 meters) and plenty of forests. Blomberg has a beautiful old town area with half-timbered houses and old alleyways. The old town is also home to a historical castle which now is established has a hotel. Nearby of Blomberg there are some bigger cities: Detmold (75,000 inhabitants, distance: 15km) and Bielefeld (330,000) inhabitants, distance 50km) in the west and Hannover (600,000 inhabitants, distance: 70km) in the northeast.
Age:
18-26
Location:
Blomberg
Language(s):
English, German
Airport:
HAJ: Hannover (Hannover, Germany)Vegetarian food will be available
The castle is surrounded by a vast green area and the volunteers will help in the maintenance of it, The tasks will be mowing and collecting the grass. Additionally, the participants of the project W02 will support the work of the cobblestones ‘ men that will take place in the same period by transporting building material.
Accomodation & food:
ACCOMMODATION:shared rooms with 2 - 5 beds in 3 guest houses, warm shower (limited hot water), 1 camp kitchen (cold water), coal-burning stovesFOODThe meals will be prepared together as they are part of the community life, what means that every participant will be responsible for the meal at least once during its stay. So it would be very nice if the participants could bring typical recipes from home in order to introduce each other to the preparation of food from all over the world.
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 the castle Lohra begins in the Middle Age. The castle is more than 1,000 years old. Today, it includes twenty buildings from different times: medieval fortifications, remnants of a tower from the 11th century, a Romanesque chapel, a manor house from the Renaissance period as well as stables and granaries from the 19th and the early 20th centuries. 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, exhibitions, concerts and other activities with international participants took place in the castle.LEISURE TIMEThe camp places are mostly situated in small villages in rural areas, so the participants should not expect busy places and normal city activities for the leisure time during the working days. Small trips in walking distance are possible in the afternoon. On the weekends it is possible to organise an excursion to nearby cities or to have other leisure activities.
Age:
18-35
Location:
Großlohra, germany
Language(s):
English, German
Airport:
LEJ: Leipzig Halle (Leipzig, Germany)This project is suitable for disabled volunteersVegetarian food will be available
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