📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
NGO Forum of Civil Action - Forca is organising a workcamp for the first time this year. They have 16 years of experience with civil and civic actions in the field of youth, environmental protection, social inclusion and new media. They are selected for 7 years back as a resource center of the Ministry of youth and sport of Republic of Serbia.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers from abroad and from other parts of Serbia will help construct an open air gym between three villages in the surroundings of Pozega. This is meant to trigger interaction between the young inhabitants of these three villages, and among them and the international group and provoke the sense of ownership, responsibility and care over this public space belonging not to one, but all three villages. Beside this, as every workcamp, we would like to motivate young people from the villages to meet people from other countries and encourage them to travel and participate in workcamps abroad or in other parts of Serbia.
Volunteers will prepare the construction site by clearing the terrain, dig the foundation and then place the outdoor gym equipment, paint it, plant flowers and decorative bushes, place trash bins and later on continue with paining the school gym and decorating it with a graffiti of volunteers’ choice.
🏠 Accommodation on site
in a mansion of the local church, with shower and toilets. Volunteers will cook on their own, with ingredients provided. Several dinners will be offered by the local community.
📍 About the location
Village Prilipac is 6km away from Pozega, in the West of Serbia. Pozega is situated at 160km south-west from Belgrade. There are approx. 300 people living in Prilipac, as well as in other villages around. The entire area is famous for the lively trumpet players as the world famous trumpet festival in Guca, mid-August, is just 20 kilometres away. It is also famous for the raspberries of the highest quality in the world. The surrounding nature is outstanding.
Volunteers will cruise by boat along Golijska Morava, visit the nearby touristic sites, the Prilipac traditional art colony, art gallery in Pozega and participate in an old crafts workshop.
⚠️ Requirements
We would like to have at least some volunteers with artistic skills for the graffiti in the school gym. If you have such skills, please make a note of them in your application.
ℹ️ Additional information
We would like to have at least some volunteers with artistic skills for the graffiti in the school gym. If you have such skills, please make a note of them in your application.