📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Host organisation is the food bank of Marburg. It is a workcamp including German language training. The lectures will be two hours every day (excluding Saturday and Sunday when the group will go on excursions). The main topic during the lectures will be intercultural diversities. So the basis of the lectures will be communication first and grammar second. The teachers will be native speakers, partly trained teachers, partly students. The language-course will not have the same standard like a professional language-school, but past experiences with this concept have given very good results.
💼 What the programme involves
Work means helping at a food bank (organizing and distributing). It is a non-commercial organization; volunteers will work together with local volunteers and be in touch with refugees and needy people. Time of work will be 4 hours daily, 5 days a week.
🏠 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.
⚠️ Requirements
As the language course is not for absolute beginners, participants must be able already to communicate in German, at least on a level which ensures simple communication. Participants also must be willing to communicate with each other during the camp in German and not in English or in their own mother tongue for the whole time, not only during the lectures. This is one important part of the concept. Special remark: Because of the language-course there is an extra-fee of 160,00 EUR to be paid upon arrival. A certificate for participating in the language-course will be given at the end of the camp.Age: 16-26 (exceptions for older volunteers are possible).