Camp Village Bergheim 1

Come and volunteer in a summer village for children, youngsters and families! Three to six weeks of different activities await you while you assist in a summer camp for kids, youth and families near Cologne! The project consists of two consecutive volunteering teams (ESC1 + ESC2). This will cover the whole duration of the holiday program as well as to support in the setting up and dismantling of the site. If you are very motivated, you are invited to participate in both volunteering teams. The first group (ESC1) will help in the setting-up of the camping site for a few days and starting from the 4th of July, you will support the local team with the running of the camping village. This involves helping with different types of workshops, where the children can try out different types of sport, do arts and crafting or simply plays games. During your first two weeks, the participants will be children from 7-12 years. In the third week the participants will be teenagers from 12-15 years. The first project will end during this week and the second group of volunteers (ESC2) will arrive. The following week's program will have activities for adolescents aged 14+ and the last week is reserved for families with (small) children. Aside from helping in the program, there are also going to be “backstage“ tasks, such as going grocery shopping or cleaning. Another responsibility is the night duty: Since the participants are under age, someone always needs to stay awake. Don\'t worry, you won\'t need to stay up the whole night and you won\'t need to do it alone. It can easily turn into a nice long campfire-evening with friends. It is very important to the local team that you feel and become part of one big group of teamers. On the 7th of August, all the camp village participants will leave and you and the local teamers will start taking everything down and store things away for the next year. That part of the work might be quite physical, but at the same time this week is supposed to give you and the local teamers time to spend together and eventually to say goodbye.