📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Educational center (www.ec.org.rs) is a 15 years old non-government, non-political and non-profit organization working mainly with and for youth through noniformal education trainings, creative workshops, international youth projects, voluntary work (workcamps and EVS), moreover offering social games, books and publications from governmental as well as nonigovernmental organizations, free internet access to young people. Organization is a member of several national and international networks: National Youth Council of Serbia, National association of youth workers Serbia, National coalition for decentralization, Forum OCD Krusevac, South East Youth European Network, Regional Youth against discrimination and is a contact point of YRSiVSS for the international volunteers exchange in Serbia for this region.
💼 What the programme involves
cleaning and revitalizing the touristic area of the Jastrebac Mountain and around sport courts, creating and placing rubbish bins, direction and creative signs, marking walking paths.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Participants will be accommodated in a Mountain house, which has all the necessary facilities, including toilets and showers. Kitchen and dining room will be available for the group to cook by themselves with the material provided by the host.
📍 About the location
Krusevac is situated in the central part of Serbia. The Jastrebac Mountain is located about 20 km southeast from Krusevac, between cities of Nis, Krusevac and Prokuplje. Jastrebac is unique for its birch woods and diverse flora and fauna. Its highest peak Velika Dzulica has an elevation of 1,492 meters above sea level. It is welliforested and presents a popular hiking and mountaineering destination. There will be excursions organized on the mountain, creative workshops, sport and other games.