📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Project
For the last 15 years, EstYES in cooperation with the sport club Lukas Basket has been running activity camps for local and international young people in the picturesque little village of Nõva in the North-West of Estonia. Every year around 150 youngsters enjoy dynamic program of this camp which offers various sport-like activities as well as some voluntary work for local community. The project venue, connected to local primary school and its sport hall, has a large ground (3 ha) with wooden huts, where participants are accommodated, cantina, washing facilities and toilets, sauna, garden and a lot of sport facilities (trampolines, bikes, nets for volleyball, table tennis sets, etc.) The camps season begins at the end of June, but before it everything has to be well prepared. To make this big work done we invite ESC volunteers to help us out.
In addition to this, volunteers will contribute to local community by cleaning and tidying up public areas, park and local beach, also helping to elderly people living in Nõva in some household duties (e.g. preparing firewood for heating season). Finally, volunteers are asked to help Forestry Department to plant some trees in the area.
💼 What the programme involves
Voluntary work will include painting of wooden huts and some community buildings, repairing benches and tables, cleaning local beach and old park from garbage, little renovation works in the local school, clearing pavement, helping seniors living in the community with some household duties, planting trees, etc. The work will be organised in cooperation with local forestry department, municipality of Nova and local primary school.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In wooden huts on bank-beds. Sleeping bag is required. All facilities like showers, toilets are provided at the school. There is also traditional Estonian sauna. Food will be cooked by professional cook in the school kitchen and served to volunteers.
📍 About the location
Location
Nova is one of 11 municipalities of Läänemaa with about 400 inhabitants, located on the seaside 90 km west from capital of Estonia Tallinn and 40 km north from Haapsalu, famous spa town with many historic and cultural sites. More information on http://www.novavald.ee/index.php/1 The camp is located on Nova basic School´s territory (www.nova.edu.ee)
Surroundings and camp´s infrastructure
School building
Sports hall
Wooden huts
Gym equipment for fitness exercises on school´s territory
Football field
Basketball court on the school´s territory
Volleyball court on the beach
4 lakes within 4 km from the camp side
Hiking paths marked by Forest Department
2 sand beaches in the distance from 0,5-7 km
Grocery store and café
Leisure time
There is plenty of possibilities for sport and other activities: ball games - football, rugby, volleyball, athletics, table tennis, archery, frisbee, disc-golf, trampolines, forest cross, forest hikes, fishing, bicycle trips to explore the area, visits to the historical places of interest in the area, picnics on a seaside, building sand and stones castles on the beach, Estonian sauna party, etc. Bikes are available for the whole camp duration. Trips to cities such as Haapsalu https://www.visithaapsalu.com/en/ nearby can be organized.