📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
JAZAS youth of Pozarevac was founded in 1997. It promotes volunteerism and youth participation, youth health and safety and society development. JAZAS organizes workcamps since 2014. The town of Pozarevac has been a local partner who has organized Equestrian event in Ljubicevo for many years now and has experience with volunteers on that event. This workcamp is being organized in partnership with Red Cross of Pozarevac and Touristic organization Pozarevac.
💼 What the programme involves
Constructing and painting benches, tables, requisites for climbing for kids, playgrounds made of old tires etc. Volunteers will be making requisites children from the kindergarten will use to play, and decorate the yard of the kindergarten. The work will be strictly using hand tools, and only the qualified persons will work on machines. Planting the trees and setting up a playground.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will be accommodated in the rooms of a local football team, where bunk beds will be set up.
Volunteers will be in charge for preparing their meals with the ingredients provided by the host. Sometimes they will share meals with the locals.
📍 About the location
The town of Pozarevac is an important administrative, economic and cultural centre of Serbia. It is located 80 km south east of Belgrade, between three rivers: Danube, Great Morava and Mlava, just beneath the hill Cacalica. Pozarevac is the centre of Branicevo region.
During free time, volunteers will get to know local area, field trips will be organized (local monasteries, monument park Cacalica, Stable Ljubicevo and hippodrome, visit to the ethno park Tuluba, archaeological park Viminacium, Milena Pavlovic Barili’s art gallery), playing social games, learning old Serbian games, sports activities…
⚠️ Requirements
It would be preferred that volunteers have some painting skills, to be willing to work with tools (shovels, carts…) Bring warm clothes because nights can be cold, sun hats and comfortable shoes for long walks. It is necessary that you bring your sleeping bags.