📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
This camp for Russian kids takes place every year on the bank of river Volga. Foreign volunteers work together with Russian volunteers as counselors and organize cultural and educational activities for the participants (local school kids aged 8-16).
💼 What the programme involves
1. Making intercultural and educational workshops (about the volunteers' native countries, ecology, water resources, human rights, antiracism, etc); 2. Teaching foreign languages to the participants (in the form of playing games, singing songs or improve their language skills through discussions); 3. Organizing some sport activities, strategic games, shows and handycrafts. The work is done 8 hours a day, one day off per week, for the days off sightseeing excursions are planned.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In the camp for children 'Shap', in brick houses; counselors live together in male, female, mixed rooms. Showers are available all the time.
📍 About the location
The workcamp is situated in Russia, Cheboksary. The volunteers will need to fly (or arrive with any other transport: train, bus etc.) to Moscow and take a train from Moscow to Cheboksary. In Cheboksary the volunteers will be met by the Russian volunteers and move altogether to the workcamp.
As the workcamp is located in Chuvashia a small local ethnicity to the east from Moscow the volunteers will get the chance to learn the culture of this local ethnicity, its' history and difference from the Russian Culture.