📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
The Holznagelhausen adventure playground is a holiday activity in the Veitshöchheim area. For 2 weeks, together with other volunteers, you’ll be looking after 200 children between the ages of 7 and 13 – split into 14 groups - across a large outdoor area. You’ll build wooden huts, offer sport and other workshop activities to the children (from football to baseball, baking pizzas in a stone oven to crafts and pedagogical games). You’ll be able to have a lot of fun together. A highlight is the overnight stay in the huts complete with a night-time walk. During the camp you’ll be able to contribute your own ideas and skills, learn how a youth project is carried out, experience working in a big team, learn new languages and make many new friends! The Holznagelhausen adventure playground holiday activity has been running for over 30 years and therefore is a long and successful tradition in the Veitshöchheim area. The activity is led by the community-based youth work in Veitshöchheim, which itself has been around for 25 years (more info at www.veitshoechheim.de; www.juz.veitshoechheim.de). You’ll be working at the adventure playground Monday to Friday from 8:30 to 14:00. During the overnight stay and night-time walk, you’ll be working late into the evening (until around 02:00). The children will then stay at the camp, but you will sleep as usual in the Friends of Nature House. On your last evening, there will be a farewell party with the other supervisors on site.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You’ll be staying in rooms with multiple beds in the “Kalten Brunnen” Friends of Nature House. You’ll prepare and cook meals in groups.
📍 About the location
Veitshöchheim is a community with around 10,000 inhabitants and lies on the bank of the river Main near to Würzburg (which is the capital of Lower Franconia in Bavaria). In Veitshöchheim there’s a very nice outdoor swimming pool, boat tours along the river Main and lots of nice people to get to know. You can get to Würzburg in about 10 minutes on the train, where you can enjoy its many sights (castles, chapels, residences) as well as shopping opportunities, cinemas, cafés and night-life. In the surrounding areas there is a climbing area, a leisure park, a go-kart track, all kinds of youth clubs, relaxing areas, cycle paths and skate parks. Everything that can be found in a large city (and indeed much more!) can also be found in Nürnberg and Frankfurt. So come and have a look!
⚠️ Requirements
A good knowledge of German and pedagogical skills are absolutely necessary, as is a desire to work with children.