📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Food Not Bombs is an international campaign that works in hundreds of cities around the world. Food Not Bombs is trying to inspire the public to participate in changing society by helping in a concrete way. The idea of the campaign is to focus our resources on solving problems like hunger, homelessness and poverty while seeking an end to war, continuous rearmament and the destruction of the environment. It works by giving out vegetarian meals in public places to anyone in need. The campaign is closely connected to food waste issues too and much of the cooking is done with donated food.
💼 What the programme involves
During the camp volunteers will organize 6 meal sharing events around Helsinki. The volunteers tasks include cooking, taking the food to the event location, giving it out during the event and cleaning up afterwards. Volunteers are also welcome to participate in the PR of the meal sharing events and collecting food donations. No special skills are needed.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will live at the Peace Station in Helsinki where many peace organisations reside. The accommodation is simple and a sleeping bag is required as volunteers will sleep on mattresses in a shared space. There are bathrooms, kitchen, shower and sauna for the volunteers to use. The food will be mainly the same that is offered in the events around town. All the food is vegetarian.The accommodation facilities and the nature of the work might be challenging for a person with physical disabilities, but their participation is still welcome.
📍 About the location
Helsinki
ℹ️ Additional information
Families can apply to the camp if the lack of privacy in accommodation is not a problem. Covid-19: Due to the possible changes in the coronavirus situation, we will confirm the camp 4 weeks before the starting date. Please don t book your travel tickets before the camp is confirmed.Additional Fee: Many SCI workcamps will have an additional fee of aO50.00. This will cover eg. local hosting costs and amp; international insurance costs of the volunteer. If you apply through a partner organisation (not branch organisation) you will pay the fee on arrival direct to the hosting branch or through a PayPal transfer system. When accepted on the project the host branch will give you more details. Check branches and amp; partners here: https://sci.ngo/about-us/our-movement/where-we-are/