📝 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
💼 What the programme involves
Have you always wanted to work in a circus, do handicrafts and gardening in a youth centre and offer sports and exercise activities for children and young people? Then this workcamp in Bremen is just right for you.
In the first week you will be guests of a circus. The circus is a children's and youth project with a big circus tent, a beautiful outdoor area, circus wagons and containers. To beautify the space, you will build pallet furniture and do masonry and woodwork. There will also be gardening and minor repairs. Furthemore you will have enough time to learn something in the circus itself. On two days there will be a parallel children's circus programme.
https://www.circusjokes.de/ (unfortunately only in German)
In the second week your group will be guests at the Gröpelingen youth centre. There you will work in the small garden (e.g. building raised beds) and help with painting inside and outside. You are also welcome to be creative. In addition, the large outdoor area offers plenty of space for sports and games. Here you will design activities for children and young people.
https://jungestadt.de/freizeitheim-groepelingen (unfortunately only in German)
🏠 Accommodation on site
Meals: The group will prepare and cook meals together
Accommodation: In the first week you will sleep in tents or containers on camp beds on the grounds of a circus and in the second week in the youth centre on air beds.
📍 About the location
The 1,200 year old Hanseatic city (www.bremen.de) offers many sights, cultural activities, a diverse nightlife scene, various shopping possibilities, but also nearby parks and lakes to relax. On your days off you can go on trips to the North Sea coast, to Hamburg or to other cities.
ℹ️ Additional information
The workcamp will take place in two locations in Bremen, so the group will move in the middle on 14.8.