Childcare in the adventure camp on the Baltic Sea

Name: Childcare in the adventure camp on the Baltic Sea
Start: 2022-06-25
End: 2022-07-14
Location: Wismar, Germany

Germany Children Social work Sport Children Social work +1 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 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. Follow us on Instagram ijgd_workcamps Facebook @ijgd.workcamps The youth service of the district of Nordwestmecklenburg supports young people in their individual and social development and contributes to maintaining or creating positive living conditions for young people and their families as well as a child- and family-friendly environment. At the DRK Children's and Youth Leisure Centre in Wismar, children and young people meet to actively organise their leisure time and take advantage of educational opportunities. The Wagenburg is an adventure camp for overnight stays of several days by groups of children and young people. The ijgd has been successfully running this workcamp with these three project partners since 2009.

💼 What the programme involves

Do you like playing with children and want to ensure that children from the North-West Mecklenburg district enjoy great holidays? Then get involved and help to supervise 40 to 50 children aged 6 to 12 in the Hanseatic city of Wismar and in 3 other locations in North-West Mecklenburg, as a part of their holiday games events. With your ideas and desire for creative projects, sports, games, music and dance, you can make sure that these days are a great experience for both the children and yourselves. With games, songs and crafts ideas from your home countries, you can give the holiday event an international flair. In the first week of the camp, you will be preparing a press conference as well as the holiday games event. Afterwards, in the second and third week of the camp, you will be supervising the children together with the pedagogical team of employees on-site and putting your creative ideas into practice. The holiday event takes place in the Hanseatic city of Wismar and in the youth facilities in the North-West Mecklenburg district. You will travel to your place of work in Wismar by bike, via a beautiful 2km long cycle path along the small river Köppernitz. For the other sites you will need to travel with public transport. (Note: The actual work to be carried out may differ from that described here). With the bicycles provided, you can also go on trips in the city and the local surroundings. You will receive holiday tickets to use on the public transport for any other journeys. You can find out more about the adventurous “Wagenburg“ accommodation at https://wagenburg.wobau-wismar.de/. It\'s located on the edge of Wismar (www.wismar.de) in a quite park. A good knowledge of German will make it easier for you to interact with the children. The common languages of the camp will be German and English. Please remember to bring some music and games ideas from your home countries with you!

🏠 Accommodation on site

You will stay in the "Wagenburg", a camp with very simple and small western covered wagons for two people each. Kitchen, toilets, showers, barbecue area and clay oven are on the premises. You will cook together. Money for food will be provided. Vegetarian or vegan meals are possible. Please state any intolerances during registration.

📍 About the location

You can play volleyball and football at your accommodation. You will be provided with bikes in order to go on trips to the beautiful beaches of the Baltic Sea or the city centre of Wismar. The Hanseatic city of Wismar with its old harbour and old town is one of the most beautiful old Hanseatic cities on the Baltic coast. Besides this, you can also go on larger excursions at the weekends to places such as Lübeck, Rostock, Hamburg, Berlin or the Isle of Poel.

⚠️ Requirements

Covid Rules (may change depending on the course of the pandemic): 2G+: Only vaccinated and recovered persons can register for the work camp. All participants must arrive with an official negative rapid test (not older than 24 hours) or PCR test (not older than 48 hours). On arrival, this and a vaccination or recovery certificate must be presented and a self-rapid test must be carried out. Thereafter, the entire group must perform a rapid self-test at least every 72 hours. We will provide self-rapid tests for the arrival and the whole camp period! Subject to changes! You will receive more detailed information after confirming your registration and at least 3 weeks before the start of the camp with the specific info sheet for your camp.

ℹ️ Additional information

You should have a good knowledge of German, be able to ride a bike and an ability to work with children: Please bring some music and some ideas for games from your home country with you.; At the end of June it can still be very cold in Germany. Therefore it might be very cold at night in the covered wagon. Therefore bring thick sleeping bags with you.

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