📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
SEKADER is a local NGO aiming to socialise disabled people of the area through water sports. They hired a camping site where they teach swimming, caning and diving to disabled people. To raise a fund to cover the costs of the camping site they also run a camp to practice English. Good English speakers are invited to spend 8 days with a group of international teenager participants who wish toimprove their English.
💼 What the programme involves
Manual work will be less in this camp as the main purpose of the camp is to practice English. Volunteers and participants will clean the beach/campsite and do similar activities together. Participants will be responsible for the daily cleaning of the site including the grounds, kitchen, toilets, bathrooms and tents. Participants are also expected to do daily activities with local children in the disabled campsite, participate in beach cleaning, help with general landscaping.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation will be in a tent. Participants must bring their own tents, sleeping bags and mats. Male and female participants will stay in separated tents. 3 meals in a day will be prepared by host NGO volunteers and served with the help of participants but general cleaning work is at the participants responsibility.
📍 About the location
The camping area (Sekader Seferihisar Engelliler Alternatif Su SporlarA DerneAi) is located in the Seferihisar-DoAanbey region of Izmir, Turkey s 3rd biggest city, and is a seaside facility used for orthopedically disabled people to access the sea. The camp site includes a kitchen, shared showers, toilets and an office and is suitable for outdoor activities. Internet connection will be provided on a limited basis at certain times of the day. Boat trip will be organised during the camp on free day but all expenses related to the trip belong to the participant.
ℹ️ Additional information
Participant must be able to communicate in English at least at basic level. Parents are requested to fill in 'Authorization and Confirmation' forms after the placement. The forms will be sent with the info sheet.