GREEN and IMPACT II - Upahl-Lenzen/ Teterow

Name: GREEN and IMPACT II - Upahl-Lenzen/ Teterow
Start: 2025-07-28
End: 2026-08-09
Location: Lohmen, Germany

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Germany Environment Environment Permanent

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

We are the association “North German Youth in International Community Service” based in Rostock. The association is a non-profit organization that provides independent youth welfare services and is a member of the Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organizations .

Since 1990, socially interested young people and voluntary club members have been organizing and implementing international work camps in Germany and multilateral youth meetings at home and abroad. We also mediate projects run by our globally networked partner organizations. Young people from many countries around the world have worked together on interesting projects since then. To date, over 800 work camps have taken place with thousands of participants from 42 countries around the world.
In the camps, which last several weeks, important and urgently needed work is carried out in all areas of society. The participants are involved in the following areas:

environment and nature conservation;
Working with children and young people;
art and culture;
Preservation of historical monuments.
In cooperation with local residents and volunteers, projects are carried out for which financial, material and human resources would otherwise not be available.

The association maintains a wide range of connections with international partner organizations. This has enabled us to place more than 700 young people in countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America.

💼 What the programme involves

The various projects at the workcamps run for two or more weeks in many parts of the world. Normally 8 to 15 participants get together in each camp. The aims of the workcamps are for you to work using your own resources and in your chosen area; get to know the world a little better and raise awareness of problems in society. In exchange for accommodation and meals you could work in building or social projects, take part in protecting the environment or set up an art scheme.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The volunteers should bring sleeping bag and mattress pad with them, as the accommodation only provides mattresses but no blankets.

🍲 Food

Participants usually make their own meals at the workcamps. In some countries, especially in third world countries, you will be asked to pay a lump sum for meals and accommodation. Details of this are in the information about the workcamp.

📍 About the location

This workcamp is perfect for nature lovers, as the work takes place outdoors in the Upahl-Lenzen Nature Reserve. Volunteers will maintain the area by mowing meadows and clearing the grassâall by hand, as traditional farming techniques cannot be used. The project aims to preserve the nature reserve and is carried out in cooperation with the environmental agency of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

🎒 Leisure activities

You would usually work 30 hours per week. Free time activities will be organized together with other people at the workcamp.

Volunteers can explore the surroundings by water or go swimming together. Excursions to other cities, such as Rostock, are also possible.

⚠️ Requirements

All participants will need to pay for and make their own travel arrangements and organize a visa (if you are going to an African country, for example).
It is important to prepare for your stay so that you can make the best of your time abroad. Please inform yourself about vaccination requirements – especially to a tropical region.
Once your workcamp has been confirmed we will send you more detailed travel information.
Please contact us if you need help with organizing your journey. We would be happy to help.

🤝 Meeting point

The camp leader will pick the volunteers from the train station Guestrow. More detailed information is contained in the specific infosheet. I will send them in the next few weeks.

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