📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The workcamp takes place in the town of Nymburk and in a small village of Jizbice (both in Central Bohemia region) in cooperation with the local NGO Centre for all. Centre for all organizes free time activities and summer camps for children and youth with and without disabilities. The activities take place in a reconstructed barn with a pretty garden in Jizbice and in the centre of the organization in Nymburk. The aim of the workcamp is to help Centre for all with the preparations and running of a children summer camp (attended mainly by children with autism).
💼 What the programme involves
You will do both manual tasks and work with children. 1st week: helping with practical manual tasks indoors and outdoors: gardening, preparing the barn for the arrival of the children (moving furniture, cleaning, decorating and preparing games and activities). 2nd week: you will work with children with autism and other disabilities who spend their vacation at the camp in Jizbice (general assistance, organization of activities, going on walks, helping in the kitchen, etc.). During the children’s camp, you will work longer hours but it will be compensated for during the first part of the workcamp when you will have more free-time. All the time, you will cooperate with Czech assistants – every child will be taken care of by 1 Czech and 1 foreign volunteer. Bring games and ideas for activities.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In Jizbice: in big tents in the garden. Please bring a sleeping bag and a headlamp. There is a bathroom with toilets and showers at the campsite. You will have meals together with the children and organizers. In Nymburk: in international scouts centre – in rooms on mattresses in sleeping bags. There are 2 bathrooms, a kitchen, a dining room and a big garden. You will prepare your own meals.
📍 About the location
Nymburk and the village of Jizbice (8 kilometres from the town Nymburk).
Study part: In the first week, you will get a lecture on autism and a workshop on methods how to work with children and youth affected by autism. Some materials will be already provided to all participants before the workcamp. Please be ready to read them in advance! There will be some teambuilding activities together with the Czech assistants. You will have the chance to learn some basic Czech phrases – it will be helpful during the children’s camp. You will also learn about the famous Czech author Bohumil Hrabal who was born in Nymburk – you can visit his birth house or see a film based on his novels.
Leisure time: Tour around the spa town Poděbrady, excursions to the complex of labyrinths and the castle of Loucen, to a local brewery and to the surrounding countryside are planned. We will also organize an intercultural day/evening in Nymburk and play bowling.
⚠️ Requirements
A motivation letter sent with the application form is strictly required. We are especially looking for outgoing and creative volunteers with good communication skills. Also we will ask you to cooperate before the workcamp and read the materials that will be sent to you. Smoking is forbidden while working with the children. Bring working clothes with you that can get dirty! You will need clothes for all kind of weather (swimsuit, warm clothes, raingear and waterproof working boots).