📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Trebnitz Castle (Schloß Trebnitz e.V.) is an educational and meeting place with a political and cultural profile and a focus on international exchange projects, especially with Eastern Europe. The castle is located about 70 km from Berlin and 30 km from the Polish border. The educational offer is mainly aimed at children and young people, but there are also seminars and further training courses for adults. For many years now, a 10-day holiday for children and young people from the region and Poland, whose parents often cannot afford to travel, has taken place during the summer holidays. The workcamp is intended to make different cultures experienceable for the children.
💼 What the programme involves
Free time activities for the children and young people on 10 days, e.g. in the form of various creative workshops, games, sports, and leisure activities, which the SCI volunteers will prepare and carry out for the children in small groups during the first 3 days of the camp. Joint work in and around the castle. The project will take place in cooperation with the Gustav Seitz Museum, which is located on the castle grounds. Parallel to the workcamp a German-Polish sculptor plein air is planned. The children will be allowed to look over the artists' shoulders and it is expected that they will also offer artist workshops for the children.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation in the castle in shared rooms. Catering by the local house kitchen. In the evenings and on weekends, it is also possible to barbecue together, have a campfire, and bake in the clay oven. The current pandemic protection regulations valid in Brandenburg/Germany will be followed for room and meals and for the type of programme. During Workcamps, disinfectants will be provided in toilets and canteen. Please wear mouth and nose protection on your arrival.
📍 About the location
TREBNITZ CASTLE (near Berlin)
⚠️ Requirements
Willingness to integrate and acquire pedagogical, social, and intercultural skills. A sensitive approach to children and young people is required. Motivation letter is required.
ℹ️ Additional information
Working hours in this camp are different from normal. All volunteers will have free time, but not together as a whole group. Free mornings and afternoons and a day off for each person will be discussed together at the beginning of the planning. Although the supervision of the children is the responsibility of the team at Schloß Trebnitz, it is possible that the children will approach you in free time. In spite of all the effort that working with children involves, participation in the workcamp brings a lot of fulfillment and fun.
Please be advised that due to the corona pandemic measures, there may be changes. We ask you not to book your trip before we have informed you if your workcamp will take place at the planned location. We will let you know about this four weeks before it starts.