📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The village of Oberzissen is asking for the support of international volunteers for the first time this year! The people living in the village are already excited to meet you and to get to know the different cultures of all volunteers. Even if in September 2021 we still might have to follow restrictions due to the pandemic, both the accommodation and the work project allow a safe organisation of the workcamp. By participating to this project you contribute to improving the infrastructure of this local community in a sustainable way (UN SDG 9 and 11).
💼 What the programme involves
Come to Oberzissen and help the local community to make playing conditions for children attractive and secure! The community of Oberzissen would like to improve their playing conditions for children. You will be working on two different projects in order to achieve this goal:
• Make their wish come true! The kids in the local kindergarten and their teachers already have different ideas like an environmental monitoring station at a stream or additional elements in the playgrounds of the village. In the next months, they will decide which of their ideas needs your support to become reality. For sure you will have the opportunity to meet them.
• Make the streams safer. Three small canalised streams flow through Oberzissen. Of course local children love to go there to play! But the streams are much lower than the roads, so help us make sure that nobody - especially not children – risks falling into the water. Under the guidance of a master painter, you will clean, sand down and paint the existing railings next to the streams.
Your workplace is in the middle of the village, so you will meet lots of locals while working. Some smaller additional tasks will complete the project.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will live and sleep in the buildings of the local soccer club and the sportshall. You can use their kitchen and showers as well as mats for sleeping. Please bring a sleeping bag. Outside the club house, you have plenty of space to play games and sports. There is also a small barbecue area that you can use. Volunteers will cook together and share kitchen and cleaning tasks.
📍 About the location
Oberzissen is a village with 1.100 inhabitants not far from the city of Bonn. In the village, you will find two pubs, an ice-cream parlour and – most importantly – many friendly people. A historic railway leads through the village with a real steam engine running on weekends. Oberzissen is surrounded by beautiful landscapes, so in your free time you can go hiking, discover nature, have barbecues, and get to know the locals during different activities together. You can find the closest supermarkets in the next village close-by. You will spend most of your time with the people in Oberzissen, but you will enjoy a few excursions on your days off - maybe to the Rhine valley, Bonn or Cologne.