📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The ijgd has been organising volunteer service programmes since 1949. We are an independent, non-profit association for international youth work, a recognised independent youth welfare organisation, and one of the largest and oldest workcamp organisations in Germany. Each year, we assist around 5,000 young people into volunteer work in Germany and abroad. We give them the opportunity to be creative, act in solidarity, take responsibility for themselves, and discover their own true potential and strengths. Our principles: Ecological learning, voluntary contribution, self-organisation, social development, intercultural learning, gender equality, anti-racism/anti-discrimination and political education.
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💼 What the programme involves
Experiencing nature up close with all the senses"- building a water and sensory trail.
Sensory perception is the root of all experience and forms the basis for all learning.
Therefore, in this work camp we dedicate ourselves to feeling, hearing, smelling and tasting and their promotion. For this purpose we create different sensory games with different strong stimuli and materials.
We will build a water playground to experience the element water with hands and feet and a sensory path with different stimuli and the possibility of independent testing - a field of experience for the senses.
You will work with ecological building materials and can contribute to the implementation of ideas with a lot of creativity.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You cook together. Money for the food shopping is provided to you. Vegetarian or vegan meals are possible. Please indicate any allergies when registering.
The participants sleep in nature experience accommodations in the form of group accommodations. For this purpose, we can offer a yurt, large-area tipis and tree nests.
📍 About the location
The nearby lakes of the Havel river and Potsdam being an island and cultural capital as well as being very close to Berlin allow a lot of free time activities. Our camp offers canoes and bicycles to explore the numerous water and field landscapes and a unique natural landscape. In Potsdam, theaters, the Babelsberg film studios and extensive cultural events attract visitors and can be reached by water as well as by public transportation. It takes about 45 minutes by streetcar (tramway) and S-Bahn to get to the center of Berlin.
⚠️ Requirements
Covid Rules (may change depending on the course of the pandemic): 2G+: Only vaccinated and recovered persons can register for the work camp. All participants must arrive with an official negative rapid test (not older than 24 hours) or PCR test (not older than 48 hours). On arrival, this and a vaccination or recovery certificate must be presented, and a self-rapid test must be carried out. Thereafter, the entire group must perform a rapid self-test at least every 72 hours. We will provide self-rapid tests for the arrival and the whole camp period! Subject to changes! You will receive more detailed information after confirming your registration and at least 3 weeks before the start of the camp with the specific info sheet for your camp.
ℹ️ Additional information
We highly encourage people with fewer opportunities to apply for this project.
Since this project’s funding within the European Solidarity Corps includes reimbursement for travel. Hence we reserve spots for people who come from families with lower income, people from rural areas or having other social disadvantages. Please highlight this in your application.
Physical fitness and an interest in nature, basic craft skills
Participants must be European citizens.