📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
This camp is organized for teenagers by youth center Vihasoo, which has been running national youth camps for
30 years and hosted more than 16000 youngsters during this years and YouthClubActive NGO, which deals with
Erasmus+ programs for 10 years. International teenage camps will be hosted in 25 km from Tallinn (Capital of
Estonia), on the shore of river Keila and between Saku and Saue.
The main goal of the camp is to understand how to create games, why some games become popular, some not,
how gamified the process and most important create your own new games!
The program will include water activities, sport and ball games, workshops, disco, camp fire, board games and
night game like Mafia, intercultural nights, sauna.
Besides all this, camp gives possibility for intensive contacts between local youth and their peers from abroad,
showing youngsters the diversity of world cultures, broadening their horizons and encouraging active
communication through games and creative activities.
The area of the camp is about 2.5 hectares and it can host over 70 youngsters on one shift. The age of local
participants is 13-17.
💼 What the programme involves
Program
There are diverse activities in the camp program: Main program is workshops and non-formal learning through
the games about games, how to create games, why some games become popular, some not, how gamified the
process, how games can help you in regular life, in study, in learning and most important how to create your own
new games.
Between main program will be a lot of different activities in small and big groups, like big games in the forest,
sport games - football, volleyball, different competitions, intercultural evening, evening of Estonian national
dances and food, Estonian sauna party, camp fire, disco, night games like Mafia, board games, etc.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation depending on the final number of participants. General we will have main house, which can fir
up to 46 participants. The content of the rooms is the following: one room with two beds, one room with three
beds, five rooms with four beds, one room for five people, one room for seven people and one apartment which
has two rooms with four beds and with five beds.
In addition we can have huts, in the youth camp there are 10 huts (each has four beds) which can be used all
year round. The toilets and bathrooms are in the main house and in the sauna.
Meals will be hosted in the spacious dining room of the camp. Five times a day: breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack
or fruit, dinner, night snack or fruit and tea. Meals are cooked by professional cooks. However, participants will
be asked to help clean after yourself.
📍 About the location
Camp located in Saku Parish, in 25 km from Tallinn central city (capital of Estonia), on the shore of river Keila
and between Saku and Saue. Closest city is Saku, a small town with population of 4,618 (as of 2005).
Surroundings and camp´s infrastructure
Saku Youth Camp have a large dining room, a conference room, a tepee, two saunas, fireplaces, a swimming
place and ball fields.
HALLS, TERRACES, SUMMER KITCHEN
To carry out internal activities, there is a big hall on the second floor of the main house and the fireplace room in
the sauna house. We also have an over 100 m² terrace in front of the sauna house to carry out activities and a
large summer kitchen.
SAUNA
The campers can use two saunas.
SWIMMING
The plot of the youth camp is surrounded by Keila river which has a nice and safe swimming place during
summer (the depth of the river is up to 1 meter)
MAKING FIRE
There are two fireplaces and a tepee to make fire. We can help by making pancake dough (we have our own fire
pans) or dough for the stick bread, if desired.
BALL GAMES
We have balls, football goals and the volleyball net for ballgames.
SMALL SHOP
Small shop with ice-cream only.