📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
SEKADER is a local NGO aiming to socialise disabled people of the area through water sports. They hired a camping site where they teach swimming, caning and diving to disabled people. To raise a fund to cover the costs of the camping site they also run a camp to practice English. Good English speakers are invited to spend 8 days with a group of international teenager participants who wish to improve their English.
💼 What the programme involves
Practising English with the young participants through daily activities, games and crafts, assisting in the day-to-day running of the camp, helping the leader in day-to-day activities such as landscaping, beach cleaning, etc. These camps are connected to Lets Speak English camps where there will be teenage participants.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation will be in a tent. Participants must bring their own tents, sleeping bags and mats. Male and female participants will stay in separated tents. 3 meals in a day will be prepared by host NGO volunteers and served with the help of participants but general cleaning work is at the participants responsibility.
📍 About the location
The camping area (Sekader Seferihisar Engelliler Alternatif Su SporlarA DerneAi) is located in the Seferihisar-DoAanbey region of Izmir, Turkey s 3rd biggest city, and is a seaside facility used for orthopedically disabled people to access the sea. The camp site includes a kitchen, shared showers, toilets and an office and is suitable for outdoor activities. Internet connection will be provided on a limited basis at certain times of the day. Boat trip will be organised during the camp on free day but all expenses related to the trip belong to the participant.