📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
The aim is to offer to European youths opportunity to prove their solidarity with local rural community by helping them improve water management of permaculture farm and support environmental self-sufficiency while creating system for rain water into natural pools and horizontal drainage in gardens. Therefore is this project directly referring to issues of climate change. Its consequences already stroke in our region by unprecedented droughts.
Participants will face another cultural environment and in international team. That provides them a great opportunity for European inclusion. During the activity volunteers will be led by life-experienced members of NGO in their topics, applying their new knowledge and suggestions in direct action. By that the volunteers will deepen social and communication skills, their awareness of their own and other cultures. Everyone will be supported to organize activity for collective.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation is provided at the same building of our NGO at Merbolitce 95. Sleeping all together in our "yoga room". Those who wish can sleep in a tent in the garden or different cosy corners of our permaculture homestead. We prepare food together in our kitchen at organic quality or local origine, vegetarian/vegan only. Participants have a chance to visit local shops on our bikes. For transportation from your home country use a train or bus.
🎒 Leisure activities
Everything we realise in our NGO and will apply in this project in cooperation with participants comes from basic principles of sustainability. Sharing of joyful activities, the responsibilities, we will react to the needs of the place and needs of the people. We will realize a practical tasks in the farm and garden developing practical skills, and activities developing soft skills as well. Therefore a "Introduction to permaculture" will be part of the activity, and talks with leader of association for unconditional basic income, as a political tool for social sustainability.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: Who: open-minded youth in age 18-30 years determined for practical action against drought challenge that our household face.
Participants has to became members of European Solidarity Corps - initiative of EU.
Deadline: Application deadline: 15/08/2022
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.