📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
Together with the Ruhr regional association, you ll be completing various conservation work projects in the Ufter Mark area. You ll be working in different areas of forestry for 5 hours a day from Monday to Friday. You ll build cultivation fences, in order to later sow acorns there, mark out riding paths and clean other existing signs. As well as this, you ll be making protective baskets for some of the larger plants so that they don t get bitten off by wild animals, and also taking care of existing growing plants. Further tasks are the taking down of protective fences and the repairing of leisure facilities. From spending time with the forester, you will learn many things about the forest and its inhabitants.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You ll be staying in small cabins in Schermbeck. You ll cook your own meals together.
📍 About the location
Schermbeck is in a very rural area, you therefore need to be well-organised in order to plan your excursions. Your project partner will support you with this and put on free-time activities. In the surrounding areas you could visit the Colonia Ulpia Traiana i the third-biggest Roman town north of the Alps and Germany s largest archaeological outdoor museum. You can go on day-trips to the cities of Essen, Dortmund, Cologne, Dusseldorf or Munster. The Hanseatic town of Wesel also offers many free-time opportunities. In the first weekend of August there is a large city festival with a lot of live music and fairs taking place.
⚠️ Requirements
Strong shoes and waterproof clothing are absolutely necessary and must be brought with you
ℹ️ Additional information
The work could be physically demanding. You ll be working for 5 hours per day.