Landscaping with ground mosaic, playground railway, insect hotels and a festival

Name: Landscaping with ground mosaic, playground railway, insect hotels and a festival
Start: 2022-06-29
End: 2022-07-20
Location: Nürtingen, Germany

Germany Teenagers Construction Environment Festival Teenagers Construction +2 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The ijgd has been organising volunteer service programmes since 1949. We are an independent, non-profit association for international youth work, a recognised independent youth welfare organisation, and one of the largest and oldest workcamp organisations in Germany. Each year, we assist around 5,000 young people into volunteer work in Germany and abroad. We give them the opportunity to be creative, act in solidarity, take responsibility for themselves, and discover their own true potential and strengths. Our principles: Ecological learning, voluntary contribution, self-organisation, social development, intercultural learning, gender equality, anti-racism/anti-discrimination and political education. Follow us on Instagram ijgd_workcamps Facebook @ijgd.workcamps

💼 What the programme involves

You will support the youth department of the city of Nürtingen in several projects in different parts of the city. Creativity, manual skills and the desire to party are in demand! - Design of a square with ground mosaic You will transform a piece of lawn near your accommodation into a beautiful place to relax. First the area will be leveled to create a ground mosaic, plant shrubs and build seating. - Panorama loungers For the recreation area you will build one or more wooden panorama loungers. - Beach volleyball court Near the recreation area you will build a beach volleyball court. - Village festival In a suburb of the city you will work on the preparation and realization of a two-day, typical Swabian village festival. - Playground railway From tree trunks, beams and boards you will build a big locomotive and wagons for children, which will be placed on a public lawn. - Insect hotels You will build one or more insect hotels from wood and other materials.

🏠 Accommodation on site

You will use rooms in the secular part of a church building including a large kitchen. You will sleep in four large tents, a historic construction trailer or in the building. You will get camp beds with comfortable, thick insulating mats.You will cook together. You plan, shop, cook and clean the kitchen and the accommodation yourselves. From experience we recommend daily shifts of teams with two people, who, on that day don’t take part in the work shift.

📍 About the location

Nürtingen has about 41,000 inhabitants and is located on the river Neckar near the Swabian Alb. You will be provided with well-maintained bicycles. Ride through the beautiful landscape, to nearby lakes, along the Neckar or explore the biosphere area at the foot of the Alb. You can reach the outdoor pool in eleven minutes, the city center in eight. There is a direct train connection to the nearby student city of Tübingen with its numerous half-timbered houses. The train takes half an hour to the state capital Stuttgart. Many possibilities await you there: Museums, galleries, shopping, big zoo, planetarium, theater, clubs, vaudeville, etc. The city of Nürtingen invites you to various activities. Among them is an excursion with minibuses. You will visit a castle on the Swabian Alb and make a cave crossing. If you want, you can join the project partner on a visit to the opera in Stuttgart on a Friday evening. (No dress code is required there. Jeans and sneakers are classy enough. However, you should not show up in work clothes or a bathing suit). You will also meet young people from Nürtingen. The members of the youth council are eager to meet you. One evening you are invited to a barbecue in the youth center Roßdorf. Another highlight is your participation in the dragon boat race in Nürtingen. https://ruderclub-nuertingen.de/veranstaltungen/drabo/uebersicht

⚠️ Requirements

Covid Rules (may change depending on the course of the pandemic): 2G+: Only vaccinated and recovered persons can register for the work camp. All participants must arrive with an official negative rapid test (not older than 24 hours) or PCR test (not older than 48 hours). On arrival, this and a vaccination or recovery certificate must be presented, and a self-rapid test must be carried out. Thereafter, the entire group must perform a rapid self-test at least every 72 hours. We will provide self-rapid tests for the arrival and the whole camp period! Subject to changes! You will receive more detailed information after confirming your registration and at least 3 weeks before the start of the camp with the specific info sheet for your camp.

ℹ️ Additional information

You need to be able to ride a bicycle. Please note: There is a special Teenage Fee of 150€ for international volunteers who applied under 18 in this camp.

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