Mali Stapar hosts for years triathlon race, part of the state championship, this year volunteers will help setting the trail for athletes, control and refreshment points. In the other part of the camp volunteers will work with kids, aged 7-10, preparing different educational, sports and creative workshops for them. Volunteers will be supported by the locals who are trained or professionals in the field of children education. Volunteers should prepare one children game from their own country and present it to the group.
Accomodation & food:
In newly renovated building with all facilities. Volunteers will prepare food in shifts. Bring sleeping bags.
Location & leisure:
Mali Stapar is a village close Sombor with 200 inhabitants working in agriculture. The excursions, lectures and visits to nearby towns are planned.
Requirements:
Motivation letter explaining experience in work with kids, planned activities for workshops.
Volunteers will mainly focus on the cleaning and arranging the green areas in the city such as the main of the park and school yard. Participants will also help clean the garbage and dumps in the local area, remove invasive herbal species and plant the perennials. Through various activities such as the landscaping, cleaning, educational workshops and games volunteers will draw attention of local young people on the importance of responsible behaviour towards the environment in which they live and plan some activities for after the workcamp together with them. Volunteers will also prepare creative workshops (creative use/re-use of waste) and present them at public workshops in a large park.
Accomodation & food:
Volunteers will be accommodated in a school. Sleeping bags needed. Food will be prepared by the volunteers, with material provided.
Location & leisure:
Arandjelovac is located in the central part of Serbia. It is a municipality with a big number of cultural and historical monuments that show many ups and downs of the old Serbian state. During free time, volunteers will explore the town and local customs.
Becej has a rich workcamp history, having hosted numerous camps. This time the volunteers will help in organizing the official archery competition. Before the archery competition volunteers will construct and clean the path for the competition and mark the path to connect the archery targets. Volunteers will help in cleaning and painting of the house which will be used as headquarters during the competition. They will help in fixing the part of the roof of the building that is next to the headquarters to stop water leaking. Volunteers will help during the day of the competition (giving information, catering service, cleaning after the competition, etc.) and should be prepared for hard work, especially during the day of the competition. Also, volunteers will be able to compete in the revue part of the archery competition. Before that volunteers will be trained to use bow and arrows.
Accomodation & food:
Volunteers will sleep in a building. Bring sleeping bags. Mattress and pillows will be provided by the host. Toilets are in the building and showers are in the sports centre nearby. Volunteers will have to prepare food for themselves, with material provided.
Location & leisure:
Becej is 120km from Belgrade, 50km from Novi Sad. There will be opportunity to visit famous sites in Becej (including river Tisa), and a one day trip to another town in the region.
Requirements:
Official archery competition is very important event for the Archery club Becej so we are looking for highly motivated, responsible and hardworking volunteers.
This workcamp involves various tasks of preparation of the archaeological sight, like clearing the area from vegetation, digging and other supporting activities in preparing for the archaeological excavations. Please be aware that the work can be sometimes hard and that you will work outside. Volunteers will also clean the walls after excavation.
Accomodation & food:
We will be hosted in the village Grab on the Jelica mountain. Accommodation is some 40 minutes of walking distance from working place so you should be prepared for walking. Camp organizers will try to organize transportation for some days. Volunteers will sleep in traditional huts equipped with beds but you should not expect luxury. Volunteers will have prepared meals, common for the area, but you will help in the kitchen and it is possible that sometimes you will be in charge of cooking.
Location & leisure:
Gradina is multilayer archaeological site located on Jelica mountain 8 km south-west of Cacak, with findings dating from the early Iron Age and the Middle Ages. Unnamed Byzantine city on Jelica becomes more and more important point in the research community. Archaeological site covers an area of 22 hectares. Five temples, along with a number of secular buildings, houses, warehouses and shops were found at site. Archaeological site is surrounded by unspoiled nature.
Requirements:
Volunteers need to be prepared for physical and demanding work
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