City Forest Nature Protection

Name: City Forest Nature Protection
Start: 2022-08-13
End: 2022-08-27
Location: Berlin, Germany

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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

💼 What the programme involves

Your place of work will be in the Wolfsburg Urban Forest. The forest is very popular amongst the local population of Wolfsburg, who like to jog, cycle, walk, or simply enjoy the nature there. Besides this, the forest is a habitat for various (rare) species of plants and animals, such as orchids, wildcats, and kingfishers. You will be supporting the state forest with several different activities in various departments: • Nature conservation: constructing a breeding ground for stag beetles, maintaining orchid meadows, removing alien plants, waste collection campaign • Forest maintenance: removal of fences, maintenance of young trees, clearing of water • Relaxation for forest visitors: cutting free forest paths, possibly building a viewing platform • Working in the workshop: building nesting boxes for songbirds or bats; cleaning and painting work in bad weather. Besides all of this, you will also get in an insight into the diverse tasks of a state forestry office as well as into the ecosystem of the forest.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The group will be staying in the youth accommodation in the St. Stephen’s parish hall. There are two large rooms available to you as sleeping space, a large common room and a kitchen. You will be sleeping on air beds (thick air mattresses). The parish hall is located by the marketplace in the Detmerode district. You can reach any shops you might on foot. You cook together. Money for the food shopping is provided to you. Vegetarian or vegan meals are possible. Please indicate any allergies when registering.

📍 About the location

The best known attractions in Wolfsburg are the castle, the art museum, the “Autostadt” (car city) and the Volkswagen Musem, the VfL Wolfsburg football team and the “Phaeno” experiment landscape (science museum). The VW-Pool is the most beautiful outdoor swimming pool in the region. The Allerpark is a big recreation area with a bathing lake, beach and high rope course. You can find more information about the town of Wolfsburg and its diverse leisure activities here: https://www.wolfsburg.de/tourismus/wolfsburg-erleben/sehenswuerdigkeiten-a-z https://living-in-wolfsburg.de/en/

⚠️ Requirements

Description of any specific requirements: Covid Rules: 2G+: Vaccinated and recovered persons must arrive with an official negative rapid test or PCR test, take a self-rapid test on arrival and then a self-rapid 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 will need to be physically fit to for the sometimes demanding work in the forest. You will be working for 7.5 hours per day, 4 days per week. Fridays will be free. Please note: There is a special Teenage Fee of 150€ for international volunteers who applied under 18 in this camp.

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