📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The house Fontana Passugg on the ground Riedwiesli in Passugg-Araschgen is a hotel for ordinary tourists and at the same time a centre for cultural and educative belongings and a meeting place for people with impaired hearing. The house was built at the end of the 19th century. For several years the place was a well-known health resort. In 1983 the last inheritor, decided that the house should be used for deaf people and people with impaired hearing.
💼 What the programme involves
The aim of this Workcamp is to clean the surrounding after the long snowy winter. Volunteers will prepare the house and the surrounding for the main season and will help out in the hotel (kitchen, rooms). The main tasks of the volunteers are: garden- and forest work, house and kitchen work.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will sleep in dormitories in the house Fontana. The rooms are cosy. The cook from the hotel together with the volunteers will prepare the meals for all participants. Everyone has to help to set the table, cleaning and doing the dishes. There is a common-room to meet each other, a library and internet access.
📍 About the location
Passugg-Araschgen is a small village about ten minutes by bus from Chur. The place is surrounded by grasslands, forests and mountains and is situated very idyllic. The close by town Chur is a typical, small Swiss town and the oldest town in Switzerland.
⚠️ Requirements
Volunteers will mostly work outside that s why they should bring along warm water proofed clothes and good shoes to work.The workcamp in Passugg-Araschgen is an Access 4 All -project and is therefore open for people with or without handicap and with no age restriction (18). We expect a certain kind of independence. It s helpful to be interested in people with impaired hearing. We want to make steps towards the integration of people with any kind of handicaps into the society and to strengthen the social competences. - The Workcamp is also open for asylum seekers