📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
Your place of work will be in the Wolfsburg Forest. The forest is very popular amongst the local population of Wolfsburg, who jog, cycle, walk, or simply enjoy the nature there. Besides this, the forest is a habitat for various (rare) species of plants and animals, such as orchids, wildcats, and kingfishers. You will be supporting the state forest with several different activities in various departments:
• Nature conservation: constructing a breeding ground for stag beetles, maintaining orchid meadows, removing alien plants, waste collection campaign
• Forest maintenance: removal of fences, maintenance of young trees, clearing of water
• Relaxation for forest visitors: cutting free forest paths, possibly building a viewing platform
• Working in the workshop: building nesting boxes for songbirds or bats; cleaning and painting work in bad weather.
Besides all of this, you will also get in an insight into the diverse tasks of a state forestry office as well as into the ecosystem of the forest.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You'll be staying in rooms for young people at the Saint Stephen's Community Building in Wolfsburg. Here, there are 2 large rooms for sleeping, a large living space, a kitchen and a party room available. You will be sleeping on air beds (rather thick air mattresses). The community building is located directly next to the market in the district of Detmerode. All places to go shopping for food ingredients are easily reached on foot.
Meals will be prepared and cooked in small groups.
📍 About the location
The best known attractions in Wolfsburg are the castle, the art museum, the “Autostadt” (car city) and the Volkswagen Musem, the VfL Wolfsburg football team and the “Phaeno” experiment landscape (science museum). The VW-Pool is the most beautiful outdoor swimming pool in the region. In the Saint Stephen's Community Building, there is a youth club every Thursday.
You can find more information about the town of Wolfsburg and its diverse leisure activities here:
https://www.wolfsburg.de/tourismus/wolfsburg-erleben/sehenswuerdigkeiten-a-z
https://living-in-wolfsburg.de/en/
⚠️ Requirements
You have to be fit enough for physically demanding work – you will work 7.5h on 4 days, Fridays are off.
ℹ️ Additional information
You will need a good level of fitness for the physically demanding work. You will be working 4 days a week, for 7.5 hours each day. Fridays will be free.