📝 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. 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.
Special 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. Openness and tolerance are absolute requirements of this camp. Participants who love a cosy communal lifestyle, enjoy making music, maybe even play a instrument themselves, sing and enjoy cooking are particularly welcome to join us. You need to be able to swim. There is an additional administration fee of 50€ for participants who are not from Germany.
🏠 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.
The group will prepare and cook 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 – almost like at the coast! If you like big cities, you could take day-trips to Düsseldorf, Cologne, Münster, 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 comfortable around people with disabilities and not afraid of coming into contact with them. Openness and tolerance are absolute requirements of this camp.
ℹ️ Additional information
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. Openness and tolerance are absolute requirements of this camp.