📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Girls Sport Center KREAFITHAUS is a project of the Gesellschaft für Sport und Jugendsozialarbeit gGmbH and is aimed to girls and young women.
The GSJ takes care of children and adolescents in difficult life situations and is active in social hot spots. The KREAFITHAUS supports girls and young women in their personal development through active sports leisure activities in conjunction with socio-educational support. The target group are girls and young women of all ages, nationality, culture, religion, skin color, social background and population.
The Kreafithaus works according to gender-specific methods, content and pedagogical concepts and helps to promote the further development of gender equality in sport, work, family and politics.
💼 What the programme involves
Renovation of one of the exercise rooms and of the sanitary facilities in the first floor. Smoothing and painting walls, designing the rooms with your creativity. Painting the fence in the garden, constructing new raised beds - all under the supervision of staff-members of the Kreafithaus. Possibly also constructing a terrace, cleaning up the windows bank and doing an Upcycling-Workshop. The group will discuss about stereotypes of male and female work and how it can be possible to create spaces, where all genders can learn all kind of different things they would like to do.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accomodation in the 2nd floor of Kreafithaus in two exercise rooms. Sleeping mats and sleeping bags are required. The two rooms are renovated and can also be closed during the day. There is a shower, toilet and washbasins available on the same floor, another shower is located on the ground floor. On the 2nd floor is also the well-equipped self-catering kitchen with dining area and terrace. Within walking distance there are shops, also cheap discounters. In Germany we have good drinking water quality, you can drink water from the tap.
📍 About the location
The Kreafithaus is located in Berlin-Lichtenberg, which is in the eastern part of Berlin. It is situated amongst panel flats of the former GDR, with schools, kindergardens and shops in between.
⚠️ Requirements
Being interested in gender-topics and discussions! Being interested in manageable renovating and building projects.
ℹ️ Additional information
Please note that this camp is open only for the female volunteers.