📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Two years ago the municipality of Kuernach started a project called “Kuernach baut ein Haus” (Kuernach builds a house). The idea is to take vacant, old and traditional small houses (of which there are a few in the village) and renovate them, so that they can be used again to live in. The renovation tasks were mostly undertaken by local volunteers together with refugees who were accommodated in the municipality. After the completion of the refurbishment the buildings will become the new home for refugee families. One house was already successfully preserved in that way and in 2018, Kuernach wants to take on the renovation of a second house that shall become home for two families - this time with the support of an international workcamp.
💼 What the programme involves
Together with local volunteers and refugees you will prepare an old farmer’s house and barn in the center of the village for a complete refurbishment. Everything will be taken out, the roof will be dismantled, etc. There are lots of old and traditional farmers’ tools and machines in the barn, which you might also help to restore so that they can be shown in public exhibitions.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated in the local youth club, which is located at the gym hall of Kuernach. It’s a nice little club with two main rooms, pool billiard, foosball etc. You will be able to use the big kitchen and the sanitary facilities of the gym hall which is upstairs of the club.
📍 About the location
Kuernach is a municipality in the district of Lower Franconia in Bavaria. It is located very close to Wuerzburg, the capital of this district, which is famous for its wine, its fortress and the Residence which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.