📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The host for this project is a very nice elderly woman. She runs a small folk center of Russian traditions and she needs help in maintaining and developing. Volunteers will have a great opportunity to know what it feels like to have a grandmother in a village and know more about traditional Russian rural life. Volunteers will learn a lot about traditional rural life in Russia, old traditions and folklore, Russian mythology.
💼 What the programme involves
The main tasks in this project will be connected with farming: weeding, watering, collecting berries, herbs, and hay. Be ready for physical work as painting fence and flatten the ground. Volunteers will also prepare the ground for gardening medicinal herbs and will get a common knowledge about them. During the second week of the camp volunteers will help with organization of the local folk festival. They will have an opportunity to gain new skills and run folk workshops by their own on the festival.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay in a wooden house, 3 persons per room. There is an equipped kitchen on the first floor. Bathroom is situated in another building and available for 2 hours after work every day. The toilet is outhouse. Washing machine is available. Volunteers will be in charge of cooking and cleaning the house.
📍 About the location
Otradnoye is a small village 35 km from St.Petersburg. Volunteers will be able to visit St. Petersburg and surroundings during weekends. At free time there is an opportunity to go swimming, walk in the forest and pick up mushrooms. It’s a good idea to take your favorite board games. There is also a nice fireplace near the house for evening gathering.
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants should be motivated and ready for physical work and farming. They are expected to be interested in preserving local traditions and folklore. Please be ready for the village kind of living condition. Don’t forget to take your traditional food and favorite spices.