📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
Together with employees of the Hephata foundation, who work with people with handicaps, you ll be leading 3 week-long holiday activity events, from Monday to Friday. You ll be working as assistants during the running of these activity events. The first week will be based around the topic of Advenutre . Here, people with light disabilities will be offered the chance to spend their holidays taking active part in activities such as swimming, geocaching, canoeing etc. The second week will be based around the topic of Culture : trips to the Xanten Romermusem, to Emmerich and Kalkar as well as to the Netherlands are planned. The third week is a week of relaxation for people with multiple disabilities. This week will be about perceptions of sense such as feelings, tastings and meditations with singing bowls. Evenings spent singing around a camp fire are planned for all three weeks. You are in close contact with the people with disabilities, since they will be living with you in the mill. In this mill, there is not much space for privacy, therefore you should be prepared to also engage with the people with disabilities in your accommodation. Since there s an activity for each day, participants could be working up to 8 hours on certain days, plus the lunch break for everyone. To compensate this, you ll have one day off each work, so that you re only working 4 days a week.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You ll be staying in a renovated mill used as a seminar house in rooms with multiple beds. The mill has a large outdoor space with a camp fire and barbecue area. You ll cook your own meals together.
📍 About the location
The Wissel mill is in a very rural location on the border between Germany and the Netherlands, so public transport is sparse. During the week, the whole group will go on trips together. The surroundings are well suited for riding a bicycle and there are real (river) dunes and sandy beaches i almost like at the coast If you like big cities, you could take day-trips to Dusseldorf, Cologne, Munster, Xanten and of course the Netherlands. This requires a lot of organisation however, but the Hephata employees are there to help and will sort out any necessary transport and travel.
⚠️ Requirements
In order to participate in this camp, you need to be open and comfortable around people with disabilities and have no problem coming into physical contact with them.