📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Every summer RIS Dvorec Rakičan organises English camps. Last year we have also organised a German Camp for Slovene children coming from different regions of Slovenia. During the camp, children learn foreign languages through games, sports, music as well as art and cultural activities. The camp also offers all children equal opportunities and makes no social differences. Children socialise with each other, get familiar with their companions and spend the summer in the arms of nature. Activities are organised and well planned with the help of children, according to weather conditions and other organisational conditions. We are involving volunteers from all over the world, thus adding value to our project and providing intercultural learning for children and for the volunteers as well.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will have a chance to create and lead some of the creative workshops for children. On the first day of the camp they will get the chance to present their country, their culture to the children. They will also participate in all sports and art activities (horseback riding, visiting the swimming pool, archery, preparing theatre plays etc). The volunteers will make a kitchen service plan according to which they will help in the kitchen. They will prepare traditional dishes typical for their home country. In addition, volunteers will help with the cleaning (cleaning dishes and cleaning up in the kitchen and dining room).
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated in double/ triple or multiple beds (with free wireless connection, TV and individual bathrooms) in a nice mansion with its own café, which is surrounded by a natural park and horse stables. The classrooms also offer computers and internet connection which can be used by volunteers in their free time.
⚠️ Requirements
Volunteers should have some work experience with children and with organizing a wide variety of activities (workshops, games). We also require high level English language skills (at least B2 level). A criminal record is required for each volunteer.
ℹ️ Additional information
The camps are intended for all children ages from 6 to 14. Per week there is around 40 children involved in our activities. We offer 2 types of summer programmes; one (the weekly programme) includes 24h activities (children are sleeping in the castle; around 15 children per week). The other programme (the daily programme) offers activities from 8 am until 16 pm. The distance to the nearest city (Murska Sobota) is 3km.