📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The workcamp is supported by the local municipality of Mnichovo Hradiste, a small town in Central Bohemia. Two years ago the town started to be more alive with support of active citizens who decided to take responsibility for what happens around. They started to organize flea markets, meetings with eye witnesses of historical events, activities for kids; they put a public piano on a bus stop and organize regular concerts on it. They also started to improve their town through voluntary work. This year’s workcamp will be already the second one in the town. The goal will be to help with renovation of public space and with organization of a local festival. There will be many opportunities to be in touch with the local community.
💼 What the programme involves
The work will be manual and connected with renovation and maintenance of public areas (painting fences and children’s playground, cleaning graves of famous locals that are forgotten nowadays). Additionally, you will help with renovation of an area around the municipal house where you will be accommodated. This area will be used in the future for cultural activities. You will mainly do gardening tasks (cleaning, etc.). Please take with you some clothes that can get dirty. At the end of the workcamp you will be involved in the organization of a local festival (“celebration day of St Anna”). You will be asked to prepare some activities for children. Please think about some games from your childhood and if needed bring materials with you.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In a house belonging to local municipality, 3-4 rooms with simple beds, 1 shower, 1 bathroom, 3 toilets, around 15-20 min of walk from market square. Please bring your own towels and sleeping bags. You will get money to buy food; there will be a kitchen available in the place where you will be accommodated.
📍 About the location
The town of Mnichovo Hradiste (approximately 8000 inhabitants) in the Central Bohemia. It is a town of contradictions as it belongs to “Skoda” region where most people work for car industry and at the same time is situated near the “Czech Paradise”, nature preserve on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
Study part: Creative workshops (making baskets, cooking with locals, yoga); afternoon with local kids; visiting a festival or a concert; meeting other local associations; listening to local stories told by storytellers. Please bring some music/musical instruments/movies/food from your culture. The final program will be set in group discussion.
Leisure time: Guided tour around the town, visit to local brewery, open air movie evening, common barbecue with locals, visiting interesting pubs of the town, opportunity to play tennis, bike trip, volleyball, football, to use slack line; visit to a local “mini gallery” in art school, concert on public piano, opportunity to go to a swimming pool (5 km from Mnichovo Hradiste), to rent boats on Jizera river or to visit Skoda museum.
ℹ️ Additional information
The project is suitable for volunteers that would like to help manually to the community but also that look forward to meeting its people and exchanging about their cultures with them. If you like activities with kids and/or play a musical instrument, it will be an advantage.