📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
“Centrum Vincence Zahradníka z.s.“ is a local association renovating a former parish house. With the regular help of volunteers, they are gradually transforming the place into a community centre, which already serves as a space for amateur theatre groups. The local partner aims to preserve the legacy of the former parish priest, philosopher, and writer Vincenc Zahradník, who lived here at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.
The project contributes to SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will help with washing windows and preparing the spaces for the upcoming theatre season. Those who enjoy gardening will also have the opportunity to take care of the herb garden. The work is not physically demanding.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will stay together in the former parish house, sleeping on beds. There are 3 rooms available. Please bring your own sleeping bag and pillow. The accommodation includes a fully equipped kitchen, fridge, washing machine, and Wi-Fi. There are 3 toilets and 2 showers.
Meals will be provided on Saturday and Sunday (breakfast and lunch).
📍 About the location
Zubrnice is a picturesque village in the Äeské stÅedohoÅí region, near ístí nad Labem. The main highlight is the Skanzen Zubrnice (Open-Air Museum), the only museum of folk architecture in northern Bohemia, preserving original timbered houses, a school, a church, and a historic functional railway station. The surroundings offer beautiful hiking routes to abandoned villages and viewpoints from Buková hora, with views over the Äeské stÅedohoÅí hills and the Elbe River valley. Mobile phone signal is available in the area.
On Saturday, if the weather is nice, we can light a campfire. On Sunday afternoon, there will be an option to visit the local open-air museum and see unique traditional timbered houses. Another option is a hike to Buková hora.
⚠️ Requirements
Due to limited resources of INEX-SDA, we kindly ask participants to contribute 20 EUR towards the costs of general incoming administration of our workcamps. The fee needs to be sent to us by a bank transfer latest one month before the workcamp starts. Please note that this fee does not directly contribute to the workcamp budgets. The fee needs to be sent to us by a bank transfer in advance.Cancellation policy: The fee is non-refundable. In case of cancellation due to force majeure (for example injury, rejected visa etc.), we will ask for proof and solve it on an individual basis.
The local partner welcomes volunteers with visual impairment, blindness, hearing impairment and deafness.
Bring your own sleeping bag and pillow.
ℹ️ Additional information
The local partner will introduce you to the life story of the former parish priest, philosopher, and writer Vincenc Zahradník, who was displaced after the end of World War II. There will be space for discussion about this difficult historical period and the broader story of the Czech Sudetenland.
