Midsummer celebration

Name: Midsummer celebration
Start: 2017-06-11
End: 2017-06-25
Location: Latvia

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About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Workcamp partners is Īslīces parish administration and cultural center of Īslīce. The administration of this parish is organizing Latvian midsummer celebration which is popular for already 4 years.

💼 What the programme involves

Volunteers will work 6 hours a day near the cultural center of Īslīce. Their main tasks will be making different kind of attractions for kids from wood and old tires. Work will be led by professional artist and woodworkers. All work will happen outside. Besides, there will be different kind of preperattion works for this midsummer celebration. In the middle of camp volunteers will participate in this festival and help organisators. In the end of this camp participants will travel all around Īslīces parish and will organize activities for kids by using attractions they made in the beginning of camp. Also there will be some extra jobs in park, gardening.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Living conditions are very basic. The volunteers will be accommodated in cultural center of Īslīce. Toilets and washing facilities will be provided. Cooking will be done by volunteers themselves.

📍 About the location

Work camp will be organised in Īslīce, Bauskas municipality. The Bauskas municipality borders with Iecava, Vecumnieki, Rundāle, Ķegums Jelgava and Ozolnieki municipalities and the Republic of Lithuania. The municipal territory consists of Brunavas, Ceraukstes, Codes, Dāviņu, Īslīces, Gailīšu, Mežotnes and Vecsaule parishes. The administrative center of the municipality is city of Bauska, located 60 km from Rīga and 60 km from Jelgava. The arrival terminals are Riga international airport or Riga international bus station. By request YOUTH FOR SMILE can organize meeting on the arrival place. If it is necessary YOUTH FOR SMILE can help with finding the accommodation before and after the project. Working place will be only 5 km from Bauskas city where you can visit Bauskas museum, Rate house, old city and supermarkets. There are buses to from working place to city.

🎒 Leisure activities

During the workcamp volunteers will have possibilities to visit different historical places. Around the city of Bauska there are three castles that you can visit- Bauskas castle, Rundāles palace and Mežotnes palace. In Bauska municipality there are three rivers- Mēmele, Mūsa and Lielupe. All of them are safe for swimming.

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📅 Available sessions

YS09

11/06/2017 → 25/06/2017

Closed

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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

16–99 years old

Solidarity donation

20.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Īslīce parish, Bauska Municipality, Latvia

Latvia

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Eastern European Standard Time

Local time: 20:55 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

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📞 Contact us

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+32 2 888 67 13

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🗣️ Languages spoken

English Latvian