ESC: Kekri celebrations in North Karelia

Name: ESC: Kekri celebrations in North Karelia
Start: 2022-10-03
End: 2022-10-23
Location: Finland

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Finland Culture Environment European Voluntary Service Culture Environment +1 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

Kekri is an autumn festival of harvest, transitioning from summer and light to winter and darkness in Eastern Finland. It is a time for cooking traditional and local food, bringing community and generations together, remembering ancestors and celebrating light. Volunteers explore the Finnish culture and nature, sustainability, creativity and work with the local community of different age groups from children to elderly people. The activities vary from learning about traditional harvest season foods and cooking and building a nature path in the forest to creativity and video-making activities, recycling and crafts, and meeting local community members and organizing activities with them. Volunteers will work 30-35 hours per week with two days off.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers stay in hostel accommodation in Hyvärilàyouth centre. Rooms for 2-3 persons with shared showers and bathrooms. Bed linens and towels are provided. Meals are served in the cafeteria. Food is mostly vegan and vegetarian, it is good and healthy. Volunteers will have a chance to use saunas on designated days. Volunteers can use bicycles to go to Nurmes town (approx. 4 km away). Travel costs are reimbursed based on ESC programme

🎒 Leisure activities

On-arrival training is organized during the first two days of the activity.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We welcome volunteers who enjoy staying in a small and isolated rural community surrounded by nature and serenity. Openness to meet the local community and people with different backgrounds is essential. The project suits well to people who have interest in some of the following areas: traditional culture, arts and crafts, nature and outdoors activities, cooking and sustainability. The project is open for 18-30-year-old citizens and residents of EU countries.

ℹ️ Additional information

Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/ This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.

Deadline: Application deadline: 21/08/2022

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📅 Available sessions

FI31792

03/10/2022 → 23/10/2022

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Deadline: 21/08/2022

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–30 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Lomatie 12, 75500 Nurmes, Finland

Finland

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Eastern European Standard Time

Local time: 21:37 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

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✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Finnish