📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
If you enjoy being outside amongst nature, spending the evening around a camp-fire, discovering the forest first-hand with people from all around the world and working hands-on in the forest with real foresters, then this project at the Forest Education Centre in Hahnhorst is exactly the one for you! The study part of this project consists of several workshops like starting a fire without equipment, recognising edible plants and preparing meals with them, learning how to build a place to sleep for the night, and archery. These workshops will prepare you for an overnight stay in the forest at the end of the project. Besides this, you'll be working in co-operation with foresters and forest workers on conservation projects in the forest and will help to improve the quality of habitats for rare species of plants and animals. In the mornings (you'll be working up early), you'll be focusing on the work tasks. The survival workshops will take place in the afternoons.
You can take a look at the accommodation here:
https://www.landesforsten.de/erleben/waldpaedagogik/unsere-waldpaedagogikzentren/wpz-hahnhorst/unser-haus/
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be staying in shared rooms in the Forest Education Centre. Participants will help out with the general upkeep of the accommodation. The camp will be fully catered, with participants helping out with certain kitchen duties.
📍 About the location
There are some free afternoons for enjoying the range of free time activities available (for example a bike tour, sitting around the campfire, a trip to the swimming pool). At the weekend, you could also go on a day trip to Bremen for sightseeing and shopping. Schwaförden itself is a small village with 1,500 inhabitants.
⚠️ Requirements
You should enjoy working in the forest and taking part in outdoor activities. You have to be able to ride a bike.
ℹ️ Additional information
There is a 395 € additional fee for this camp.