Peace Center Sievershausen

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About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The Peace Studies Center Sievershausen (Antikriegshaus Sievershausen) was established in the rooms of the Sievershausen Lutheran Church community almost 50 years ago. Those were the times when the Vietnam War escalated. Constant expansions followed, now there are several buildings, surrounded by a nice park, including a guest house and a museum with an assembly hall. The peace center shows within its diverse program, that peace work has political, historical, pedagogical and cultural aspects. Through the year one can visit exhibitions, literary readings, lectures and many cultural events. In the seminar house students get trainings in nonviolent conflict resolution and every year an international workcamp is offered. For further information please visit http://antikriegshaus.de/.

💼 What the programme involves

Work: Volunteers are invited to contribute to a ‘poetic wall-news sheet’ in the village. It’s motto will be “Imagine: Dreams of my tomorrow – Dreams of our world”. Doing this requires some talent for designing and painting. Participants should bring on some poetry or song lyrics that fit to the motto. Participants who prefer to do manual labor, are invited to do some garden work or help with renovating another room in the center. Study: We will learn some essentials of peace work and get basic non-violent conflict management training. In the second week we will visit the former concentration camp of Bergen Belsen, and have some lessons on European history in the first part of the 20th century. Volunteers will have the opportunity to spend an evening in a German family and reverse, the group will invite the people of the village and region to an “Evening of encounter” (Abend der Begegnung) in the rooms of the Peace Center.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The accommodation of the participants is carried out in rooms with 4 beds each.: Please bring sleeping bag with you. Food will be prepared together in the kitchen of the seminar house.

📍 About the location

Leisure Time: In the leisure time, the group can use facilities of the seminar house and make an excursion to Hannover or Braunschweig. Region: The Peace Center is at the verge of a village with about 2500 inhabitants. The Peace Center is near the historical location where in 1553 a battle took place. Sievershausen lies 30 kilometers east of the Lower Saxony provincial capital Hanover on the freeway to Berlin.

⚠️ Requirements

Please bring sleeping bag with you

ℹ️ Additional information

Please bring sleeping bag with you

Only belgian volunteers will be accepted on this project !

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📅 Available sessions

ICJA09

30/07/2017 → 12/08/2017

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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–26 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

31275 Lehrte-Sievershausen, Germany

Germany

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

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✅ Features

🗣️ Languages spoken

English German