📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Our partner is a project 'Cheboksary - environmentally friendly and energy efficient city' organised by the city administration. The project is carried out since 2011 and is aimed at improving the ecological awareness and consciousness of citizens. Cheboksary is a city 600 km to the east from Moscow and the capital of the Republic of Chuvashia. It is a beautiful and cosy city with its rich history but unfortunately some parts of the city are polluted with plastic and other garbage. The workcamp will help the citizens to make it cleaner and more beautiful.
💼 What the programme involves
Cultural and educational activities; lessons at the university, school and orphanage; cleaning several city areas from the garbage.
The action is carried out by nature lovers. Volunteers will help to clean one of the city parks Park of 500s anniversary of Cheboksary. Participants will be able to enjoy the beauty of the urban landscape and meet the very friendly local people. Foreign volunteers will work together with Cheboksary citizens and local volunteers. The exact tasks will vary, and volunteers must be flexible in the work they do, and be prepared to implement different tasks.
The volunteers need to prepare the presentation about their country and ecological situation there.
As a part of the project the volunteers will give interviews in local media.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay in the host families. Breakfasts, dinners, transport and cultural program provided, volunteers will cook lunch for themselves.
📍 About the location
The workcamp is situated in Russia, Cheboksary. The volunteers will need to fly (or arrive with any other transport: train, bus etc.) to Moscow and take the train from Moscow to Cheboksary.
Volunteers will take part in the celebrations of the Knowledge Day (September, 1) beginning of the studies in Russian schools and universities.
A welcome party will be organized where volunteers will cook their national dishes.
Volunteers will get acquainted with rich and old Chuvash culture visit Chuvash village, go to banya (sauna), try on the national dresses, taste traditional food. There will be organized excursions to the monastery and sacred springs with healing water.
There is one of the longest cycling paths in Cheboksary, and the volunteers will get a chance to cycle on it. They also will see all the beauties of our town and get national symbols as presents.
The program is very rich and interesting, the organisers prepared many surprises!