📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
The AWO have been offering their “Strandfahrten” to the Falckensteiner Strand for over 90 years now. Each time up to 270 children, aged 6 to 13, can participate in a week long adventure (Monday to Friday) with different activities: participating in organised games, playing and exploring the forest and the beach. Each week has its own project theme and different activities going along with it. You will work from Monday to Friday from 9AM to 4PM. In the first week you will have the Monday off while working together with AWO care takers on Tuesday and Wednesday. This will give you a chance to get to know each other and the project. On Thursday and Friday you will prepare week 2 and 3. In these weeks you will also work hand in hand with the AWO caretakers, but organise your own projects within your work camp group, caring for alternating groups of children. This is the time to show your creativity and own ideas. Bring along some songs, games or ideas for arts and crafts inspired by your home countries – this will add to the international atmosphere of the camp. If you enjoy spending time with children, working outside, swimming and like working in a big team, you will have a great time and bring home lots of memories and valuable experiences. The Baltic Sea Youth Village Falckenstein is located on the outskirts of Kiel and very close to the beach of the Kieler Förde. If you want more information on the village visit www.jugenddorf-falckenstein.de (unfortunately this website is only available in English). You will find some pictures from previous “Strandfahrten” here, too. In this project you, together with other caretakers from Germany, will be be responsible for alternating groups of children and thus should have some basic German language skills. The children and also some of the other caretakers do not speak English, but within your work camp group you will speak a lot of English.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Simple cottage with a green roof, big, shared bedroom; communal showers and bathrooms are located in the main building (100m from the accommodation). You will partly cook yourselves, partly there will be catering
📍 About the location
There are plenty of options for how to spend your evenings in the camp: You can go for a swim in the Baltic Sea, play volleyball, football or table tennis, have relaxing barbecue evenings or take a bus into the city centre of Kiel. A 30min bus trip will take you into Kiel, a city with 200.000 residents and popular tourist destination for tourists from all over the world.
⚠️ Requirements
Please bring ideas for games, creative projects and music fromyour home countries.
ℹ️ Additional information
Please bring ideas for games, creative projects and music fromyour home countries.