📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The workcamp takes place in a small town of Odolena Voda in cooperation with the local town hall. The town hall aims at creating good conditions for living, working, spending free time and enjoying the environment for its inhabitants. The main focus of the town hall is currently 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 the renovation of the public space in the town, creating play structures for children and cooperation with the outdoor children camp. This year, the workcamp will be organized for the 2nd time.
💼 What the programme involves
The work will manual and can be physically demanding. The tasks can include creating simple play structures from natural materials (digging a hole, putting logs, branches, ropes), renovating flower beds in the town, planting bushes in case of good weather (digging holes, planting, watering), creating a ponton on a local lake, maintenance of other public areas (painting of fences, repairing benches, etc.). As a lot of work will be done outside, please bring solid shoes.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In the gym of a primary school. A kitchen and a bathroom will be available. You will sleep on mattresses in your own sleeping bags. Please, bring your sleeping bag and a light mat! You will cook your own meals, some meals will be provided in the local restaurant.
📍 About the location
A small town of Odolena Voda (population of 6500), at approximately half an hour from the outskirts of Prague by bus.
Study part: Meet the locals, get 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 poet Vítězslav Hálek was born. You can get involved in the program by reciting shorts extracts of your favourite book or poem to the other volunteers and the public (in English or even in your native language). Please bring your favourite novel or book of poems, preferably in hard copies, that you would like to present at the event. There will be some activities for and with local kids.
Leisure time: Visiting a local church and a fortress, hiking trip to close-by volcanoes, 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 – a hall for basketball, voleyball, tennis and beachvoleyball courts.
ℹ️ Additional information
The workcamp is suitable for volunteers who like working manually in the nature but also are creative and enjoy activities with children. Moreover, if you like literature (prose or poetry reading), it is a perfect choice for you! The group will be composed of 6 Welsh, 9 international volunteers and 2 Czech campleaders.