📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The ijgd has been organising volunteer service programmes since 1949. We are an independent, non-profit association for international youth work, a recognised independent youth welfare organisation, and one of the largest and oldest workcamp organisations in Germany. Each year, we assist around 5,000 young people into volunteer work in Germany and abroad. We give them the opportunity to be creative, act in solidarity, take responsibility for themselves, and discover their own true potential and strengths. Our principles: Ecological learning, voluntary contribution, self-organisation, social development, intercultural learning, gender equality, anti-racism/anti-discrimination and political education.
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💼 What the programme involves
Would you like to spend your free time with others at a camp by a lake, far away from the hustle and bustle of the big city? You want to get out, do something practical and get actively involved? Then this work camp near Spremberg might be just the right thing for you.
Even after the completion of construction work in 2022, not all of our projects have been implemented at Camp Bohsdorf. There is always something to do to make the grounds and the atmosphere on site even more beautiful. This includes further work in open space design and optimization. Together we want to build a laundry area and to improve the fencing. We want to maintain green areas and raised beds and there is always room for your own creative ideas.
Furthermore, you have the opportunity to support the integrative work in the residential community for refugee families in Spremberg.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be sleeping in shared bedrooms in brand new bungalows. Camp area is in the middle of a beautiful forest and surrounded by a fence. The camp has a central house for sanitation with toilets and showers as well as a community area.
You will cook and go food shopping for yourself. Money for grocery shopping will be provided. Please state any intolerances during registration.
📍 About the location
You can swim in the Felixsee, play beach volleyball, beach soccer or table tennis. A barbecue area is also available. There is also internet access on the premises.
In the town of Spremberg itself there are other recreational opportunities, such as an outdoor swimming pool, a cinema and a skating rink. The unique Spreewald in the region is a paradise for doing boat and canoe tours. Furthermore you have the possibility to be creative and artistic, e.g. working with soapstone.
During the whole time of the camp there will be plenty of opportunities for you to get to know the wonderful people and places of this region.
⚠️ Requirements
Covid Rules (may change depending on the course of the pandemic): Compulsory COVID-19 rapid test (antigen rapid test) directly upon arrival at the camp. The tests are provided by ijgd. We recommend that you carry out a self-rapid test at your home town before departure, so that you are not surprised by a positive rapid test at the camp.
Subject to change! In case of further relaxations or even restrictions during the pandemic, the legal requirements of the respective federal state in Germany apply.
You will receive more detailed information after confirming your registration with the specific info sheet for your camp.
ℹ️ Additional information
We welcome participants who enjoy practical work, building and designing in the great outdoors.
Please note: There is a special Teenage Fee of 150€ for international volunteers who applied under 18 in this camp.
