📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Our partners are the municipality of Marburg and the 'Friends of nature' (Naturfreunde). We have been organizing together camps in German language for many years already and many students and workers come here to improve their skills. A 10-hour per week German language training is provided, totally interactive and based on the needs and requests of the volunteers. We apply a "full immersion" method: no English, no other language is allowed during the project, only German.
Arrival is possible each Sunday, starting from January 31st till the end of June. Volunteers can choose to stay for one, two, or more weeks. Departure in the weekend.
💼 What the programme involves
Work will be sometimes in the forest, as maintenance of young stands, field mapping of new trees, planting of trees, cutting bad vegetation, searching and marking of habitat trees, waters care and so on. Participants will also be doing various manual works to prepare the so-called Freizeitgelaende Stadtwald or the area around the Naturfreunde's house in Marbach for leisure activities of groups coming from the city. Time of work will be around 3-4 hours per day, 5 days a week. The kind of work will depend on the requests of the partners and on the weather.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation will be in a building with bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom, shower. Cooking, cleaning, shopping etc. will be done by the group itself. Accommodation, food and excursions' travel-costs are free as well as materials/copies needed for the German lessons.
📍 About the location
Marburg is an historical and picturesque old university town, 100 km north of Frankfurt/Main. It has 82.000 inhabitants, including 25.000 students from more than 120 different countries. The camp is located in the centre.
ℹ️ Additional information
Extra fee is for one week; two weeks would be double etc.