📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Gamig Castle is an estate consisting of a farm, a chapel and a small garden. Some of the Castle’s buildings date back as far as the 16th Century.
Gamig Castle was recently used as a centre for repairing machinery and as the headquarters of a local fruit farm. Nowadays it is used for the rehabilitation and treatment of psychiatric sick (e.g. schizophrenic and depressive) people. The centre provides treatments ranging from all-day therapy to independent living and integration into the nearby villages of Dohna and Heidenau. The patients work on a large organic farm, as well as in art and craft shops.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers are asked to do different gardening work and help in agricultural activities cleaning and harvesting fruit and vegetables, such as harvesting cherries, onions, zucchinis etc.. Mostly you will work alongside people with chronic psychiatric diseases. You will work approximately 6 hours a day. (If you are interested, we can have talks about the methods and aims of the medical treatments in the centre with the workers of the institution. Of course you will have the possibility to visit different workshops, where patients spend their working day.) Please be prepared for working only outside!
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will sleep in rooms of the establishment. You will have two bedrooms and three beds in the community room. Modest sanitary and kitchen facilities are available.
📍 About the location
There is a unique landscape at “Sächsische Schweiz” (sand stone mountains) and you will have the possibility to visit the city of Dresden. Dresden, famous for its old and historical buildings, castles, galleries and opera, is situated on the banks of the river “Elbe”.
All free time activities depend on your own ideas and initiative. It would be great if you could also bring some ideas for games. There is a volleyball field to play with the in-patients as well. Moreover, there is a beautiful little town called “Pirna” to visit (with a castle). Around the castle there is a lot of space to walk, to play or to spend time outside.