Gardening for future

Name: Gardening for future
Start: 2022-07-16
End: 2022-07-31
Location: Hildesheim, Germany

Germany Teenagers Environment Education Manual work Teenagers Environment +2 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The ijgd has been organising volunteer service programmes since 1949. We are an independent, non-profit association for international youth work, a recognised independent youth welfare organisation, and one of the largest and oldest workcamp organisations in Germany. Each year, we assist around 5,000 young people into volunteer work in Germany and abroad. We give them the opportunity to be creative, act in solidarity, take responsibility for themselves, and discover their own true potential and strengths. Our principles Ecological learning, voluntary contribution, self-organisation, social development, intercultural learning, gender equality, anti-racism/anti-discrimination and political education. Follow us on Instagram ijgd_workcamps Facebook @ijgd.workcamps

💼 What the programme involves

The large property of the “School Biology Center“ (= Centre for Environmental Education) in Hildesheim consists of a varied landscape with different biotopes and high experience value. Schoolchildren of all school levels are educated here and workshops, nature experience events, children's birthday parties, holiday fun events or holiday care take place. The focus of the work is on environmental education, public relations and the breeding of the endangered yellow-bellied toad. You will support the school biology center with gardening and garden design: building fences, disposing of old wood, creating new areas of the garden, painting the new workshop and preparing an area for a climbing landscape. Furthermore, there is a study part on the topics "sustainable workcamp, sustainable everyday life". You will cook as group in the kitchen of the center - healthy cuisine with regional ingredients, supplemented with herbs from the herb garden (possibly also tomatoes, zucchini, lettuce). Avoiding garbage. At the end of the camp, there will be a big sustainability festival at the school biology center on July 30, which you will help to prepare. There, nature conservation organizations and local providers will present themselves with their own information and sales booths with regional and sustainable products.

🏠 Accommodation on site

You cook together. Money for the food shopping is provided to you. Vegetarian or vegan meals are possible. Please indicate any allergies when registering.

📍 About the location

Hildesheim is an old, historic city with about 100,000 inhabitants. The cathedral and St. Michael's Church are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. There is a great art and culture scene with lots of music, theater, exhibitions and parties. There is also an outdoor pool with a bathing lake. In summer, the market square becomes the Citybeach - a popular meeting place with events in the middle of the city. Hannover, the capital of Lower Saxony, can be reached in 30 minutes by train.

⚠️ Requirements

Covid Rules: 2G+: Vaccinated andyes recovered persons must arrive with an official negative rapid test or PCR test, take a self-rapid test on arrival and then a self-rapid test at least every 72 hours. We will provide self-rapid tests for the arrival and the whole camp period! Subject to changes! You will receive more detailed information after confirming your registration and at least 3 weeks before the start of the camp with the specific info sheet for your camp.

ℹ️ Additional information

You should enjoy to be outside amongst nature. And you should be able to ride a bike. Your group will either get bikes or tickets for public transport.

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