Adventure Land Lauchringen

Name: Adventure Land Lauchringen
Start: 2023-06-17
End: 2023-07-01
Location: Lauchringen, Germany

Germany Manual work Environment Manual work Environment Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The community of Lauchringen is going to host an international workcamp for the fifth time. The project will take place in cooperation with the “Familienzentrum“ (family centre). The family centre offers various programs for people of all ages to meet, exchange and educate themselves. In 2018, they built the “Adventure Land“: A big house with sleeping facilities, a kitchen, sanitary facilities, a workshop space, and a big common room. The place offers an afternoon program for children and youngsters and hosts groups during school holidays. The Adventure Land is a very special and inclusive place, from which everyone has something to learn! By participating in this work camp, you are actively supporting inclusive education (SDG 4).

💼 What the programme involves

This year, the Family Center and, more generally, the community of Lauchringen, are counting on your help to continue the work of previous workcamp groups. You will work on improving the outdoor infrastructure of the "Adventure Land", an inclusive place for children and school groups. In addition, you will improve, maintain and beautify some of the town's public spaces. In the Adventure Land, you will: 1.Build up some wooden huts, which will be used for the children\'s holiday programme in the Adventure land. This year\'s programme will have “Circus“ as the main theme, so the huts will be designed accordingly; 2.Maintain and improve the Adventure Land\'s garden. Your tasks will be for instance to build up raised garden beds, to take care of the vegetable garden, to weed and plant flowers; 3.Do other building works, depending on the Adventure Land\'s team\'s plans. These will involve working with wood, nailing, screwing, sanding down and painting. In other parts of Lauchringen you will: 1.Remove invasive water plants from the banks of the Wutach River to preserve biodiversity. Since "Springkraut" (Himalayan balsam) multiplies very quickly and endangers other native species, it is important to remove it from the riverbanks to protect local flora and fauna. 2.Build a bench in the "Generations Park" behind the Family Center. This bench will be there to promote social interaction while hiding the front of the underground parking lot, which is considered not very pretty by the residents of Lauchringen. The work will be led by a professional instructor, so no previous experience is needed. You will work around 30 hours per week, somewhere between 8am to 4pm from Monday to Friday with a lunchbreak.

🏠 Accommodation on site

You will live inside the building on the “Adventure Land”: There are two big rooms with sleeping mats which can be separated by gender, a kitchen, and sanitary facilities. Please, bring a sleeping bag. There is also a big common room that you can use for your activities. On most days, groups of children will come to the Adventure Land in the afternoon, and you will need to share the common room and the sanitary facilities with them. The two rooms for sleeping, however, are private and reserved only for your group. Have a look at pictures of the new building and area here. In the Adventure Land, there is a washing machine, which can be used in agreement with the local workers, and there is Wifi. Your group of volunteers will be responsible for grocery shopping and cooking together. During the week, you will have a rapid cold lunch during your break. In the evening and at the weekend, you will have more time to cook warm meals from different countries. The food will be bought with the camp budget and everybody will take turns for cooking and cleaning. In order to reduce our carbon footprint on the planet, we encourage volunteers to reduce meat and try more sustainable dishes.

📍 About the location

Lauchringen is a small and pretty town in the very south of Germany. It is located inside the Black Forest, which means you will be surrounded by beautiful nature. In your free time, you can go on hikes and explore the Black Forest. Lauchringen is also very close to the Swiss border and not far from places like Lake Constance and the university town of Freiburg. In Lauchringen itself, you can find everything you need for your everyday life: supermarkets, bakeries, cafés, etc.