Camp Village Bergheim

Come and volunteer in a summer village for children and young people with and without mental disabilities WORK: Over 3 weeks of different activities await you while you assist in a summer camp for children and young people with and without mental disabilities near Cologne! Your work starts with setting up the camp site together with the volunteers of the local association that runs the camp. The summer village starts on the 26th of June with an opening ceremony and from the next day on you will support the local team with the running of the camping village. Your job will be to help with different types of workshops, where the children can try out different types of sport, do arts and crafting or simply play games. In the first week, half of the places for participants in the camp village are allocated to children and young people who require an assistant due to their (mental) disability. Assistants are provided by a self-help association for people with mental disabilities especially, and their families. The other half is allocated both to children and adolescents who do not need an assistant, but are dependent on support in everyday life (care, etc.) and to children and adolescents without disabilities. In the following two weeks, the participants will be children from 7-12 years. The volunteering team project will end after these kids\' weeks, but the camping village will continue with activities for adolescents aged 14+. The last week is reserved for families with (small) children. If you want to stay longer (and without the financial support from the ESC), this could be arranged with the local association. Aside from helping with the program, there will also 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. Most of the 15 volunteers will be German and around 5 volunteers will join from abroad.