📝 Detailed information
💼 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. This holiday is primarily aimed at people with disabilities, who have a high level of independence and low maintenance, and who can actively participate in activities. They will be accompanied by professional assistants who have been trained according to their individual needs. At the beginning of each week of the holiday, the offered actions and activities are discussed in accordance with the wishes of the people with disabilities. Joint meals and campfire evenings with communal singing are scheduled during all three weeks. You will be in close contact with the people with disabilities, since they will be living with you on the grounds and you will be spending a lot of time with them. You should therefore be very open to meeting them on-site.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be staying in shared rooms in the Naturfreundehaus (Friends of Nature). The group will prepare and cook meals together.
http://www.naturfreundehaus-theegarten.de
📍 About the location
Solingen is located in the Bergisches Land region and cities such as Düsseldorf and Cologne are easily reachable by train if you want to go on an excursion. Within 2 hours you can also travel to Xanten and spend a lovely day at the Xantener lake, where you can play water sports and go swimming. There is also a large archaeological park there, which you can visit. The Burg castle in Solingen is also worth a visit. It is the largest reconstructed castle grounds in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany. You will be staying in the youth centre, which means you can also play table football and pool in your free time.
⚠️ Requirements
In order to participate in this camp, you need to be comfortable around people with disabilities and not afraid of coming into contact with them. These are fundamental requirements for this project. Participants who love a cosy communal lifestyle, enjoy making music, maybe even play an instrument themselves, sing and enjoy cooking are particularly welcome to join us. You also need to be able to swim.
ℹ️ Additional information
Since there is a different activity on offer every day, your working hours could total up to 8 hours a day, plus the communal lunch break. In order to compensate for this, one day of the week will be an extra ‘free’ day, so that you will only be working 4 days per week. There is limited space for privacy in this camp.