📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
For two whole weeks, the idyllic town of Luchow in the beautiful Elbtalaue-Wendland region will be your home. You ll be helping with the renovation of a nursery s outdoor area, as well as working on the adjacent natural play areas. Together with a landscape architect, you ll be replacing sand in the sandpits and carrying out excavation work for the installation of a water and drainage system, in order to get rid of the water in the sandpits and use it to feed nearby plants. Besides this, you ll be building wooden benches. During this camp, you ll need to be able to work a lot with your hands as well as with heavy equipment.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You ll be staying in the nursery. You ll cook your own meals together.
📍 About the location
During your free time, you can enjoy the huge outdoor area of the nursery, since you ll be staying in the nursery building itself. Besides this, you can explore the beautiful Elbtalaue-Wendland region by riding a bike along the Elbe river, or through the cultural landscape of nearby Slavic villages. Also, there are many sport and free time activities to be enjoyed in town, such as a swimming pool, a football and basketball pitch, a tennis court as well as a bowling alley. The town centre of Luchow is only a few minutes walk away. At the weekend, it s worth taking a trip to Luneburg, Hamburg, Berlin or the Nordsee and Ostsee lakes.
⚠️ Requirements
A good level of fitness for the physically demanding work is required.