📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Association „MY APATIN“ has goals to support local sustainable development of the community of Apatin municipality, youth and humanitarian work, education of the citizens, protection of the environment and ecological development, advancement and growth of culture and tourism in municipality Apatin. Members of the association were participants and organisers of multiple different workcamps in the previous years.
💼 What the programme involves
During the workcamp, volunteers will clean and set up picnic area at the river bank of Danube near Apatin, with the help of local volunteers. Together, volunteers will clear vegetation, clean the surface of 500m2, and prepare it to become a local picnic area. The ground will be levelled if needed, they will build and set up big tables with benches, trash bins, they will prepare the field for camping, a trail and also set up a space for preparing food in nature.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will sleep in a boarding school that is 1km from the center of Apatin, with 3-bed rooms and they will be in charge of preparing and cooking their meals (ingredients provided by the host) and taking care of the cleaning of the accommodation. There is no need to bring sleeping bags.
📍 About the location
Apatin, municipality Apatin, Danube river bank.
There will be organized excursions and field trips to Sombor and to the special nature reserve “Gornje Podunavlje”. Workshops and lectures will be held about ecology, environment protection and sustainable development. Volunteers will learn about specific flora and fauna of the river Danube, about how life next to a big river is, how to fish, paddle and how to prepare food in the nature.