📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The workcamp takes place in a small town of Odolena Voda in cooperation with the local municipality. The town hall aims at creating good conditions for living, working, spending free time and enjoying the environment for its inhabitants. The main focus is on landscape regeneration and leisure time activities, such as social and cultural events or sports facilities. The aim of the workcamp is to help with renovation of the public space in the town, to create new play structures for children and maintain local green areas. This year, the workcamp will be organized for the 5th time. In this workcamp, you are actively working for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of Sustainable Cities and Communities (UN SDG11).
💼 What the programme involves
Work: The work will manual and it can be physically demanding, so get ready for some hard work. The tasks can include: creating simple play structures for children from natural materials and building simple wooden staircase. You will also work in the local green areas to make the places attractive for locals by creating paths (e.g. by cutting grass or branches), by marking paths and collecting garbage. A lot of work will be done outside in all kinds of weather, please bring solid shs.Study part: Meeting the locals (e.g. local firemen), getting to know the local culture. During the workcamp, an international literary evening Meeting of Languages will be organized in a house where a significant Czech pt Vitezslav Halek was born. You can get involved in the program by reciting short extracts of your favourite book or pm to the other volunteers and the public (in English or even in your native language). Please bring your favourite novel or book of pms, preferably in hard copies, which you would like to present at the event.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In the local primary school. A kitchen, a bathroom and the gym will be available. You will sleep on gym mats in classrooms or the gym. Please, bring your own sleeping bag and a light mat You will cook your own meals as a group.
📍 About the location
GPS coordinates: 50.2290066 - 14.41095. Address: kolnE 200, 250 70 Odolena Voda, Czech Republic. A small town of Odolena Voda (population of 6,000 inhabitants), located approximately a half an hour drive from the outskirts of Prague.Leisure time: You can visit the local baroque church, fortress and museum; go on a hiking trip to close-by volcans, a trip to Prague, to the Veltrusy castle or a cycling trip to the town of Melnik. There is a possibility to use the community sports facilities for playing football, basketball, volleyball and beach volleyball and tennis. A BBQ party with locals will be organized during the workcamp. There is also a natural swimming pool in Odolena Voda. Please bring a swimming suit.