📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Niefern-Oeschelbronn is a small town in the South-West of Germany; it consists of the two districts Niefern and Oeschelbronn. This year, the town is going to host its first international workcamp! Therefore, they are cooperating with a local association that already runs two “forest kindergartens” in the area. In September, they want to start another one in Oeschelbronn. The idea behind forest kindergartens is that the small children and their kindergarten teachers spend almost every day outside in the forest. The close contact with nature helps the children to develop into healthier, emotionally stable and creative personalities.
💼 What the programme involves
It will be your task to help preparing the area that will be used for the kindergarten. Therefore various equipment is needed: A place with a roof, a fence, a meeting / breakfast place, and so on. They have lots of ideas what could be done! To keep the impact on the forest low, all these things will be constructed with natural materials: mostly wood, stones, etc. To get an idea, you can have a look on their existing kindergartens here: http://www.wichtel-waldkinder.de/waldkindergarten-heimsheim/
🏠 Accommodation on site
The town provides a 100sqm flat in the center of Oeschelbronn. There are four rooms with camp beds, a kitchen, a shower and a bathroom. You will have the possibility to use the showers in the town’s gym as well, if you want to use additional ones.
From the accommodation, it is just a few hundred meters to the next supermarket; your work place, at the edge of the forest, is about 15 minutes by foot.
📍 About the location
Niefern-Oeschelbronn is a small community, but it offers everything you need. It is surrounded by nature and close to the town of Pforzheim and the Unesco World Heritage Site “Maulbronn Monastery”. The cities of Karlsruhe and Stuttgart are both not far, as well as the Black Forest where you can go hiking.