📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Rainau is a local community which consists of five different villages. For the first time they invite international volunteers to support them improving the local infrastructure and to enrich the village festival on August 9th to 11th. The main task is to build a playground in the small village Weiler. The children there don’t have a playground yet and as the budget of the local community is limited, they asked for the help of international volunteers to be able to spend a bigger part of the budget in the playing tools. Beside of this they hope that your participation in the new village event “summer beer garden at the lake” will be an enrichment for you and for the locals. The event includes also a festival of lights.
💼 What the programme involves
Build a playground and support the “summer beer garden at the lake”. The main task of the workcamp will be to build a playground for children in the small village Weiler – up to now they don’t have a playground there. Concrete tasks will be modelling the ground, setting up the different playing tools (slide, nest swing, balance beam…), constructing a wooden fence and spreading wood chips on the ground for security reasons. This work will start on August 12th. The first days of the workcamp you will support the preparation of the summer beer garden, a local event which will take place for the first time. Here the local associations celebrate together the summer, you will set up benches and tables and small wooden huts. The event is a perfect possibility to meet local people and to build up contacts. Some other smaller tasks in the community (manual maintenance work) will be added.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation provided is in the village Dalkingen. In the building of the sportshall you can also find a room offered to the local associations to meet. For the period of the workcamp this room will be yours. In the building there is also a small kitchen, toilets and showers. There is no Wifi. Dalkingen is 1km far from Weiler, where you will build the playground. Probably you will go there by bike every morning.
📍 About the location
The workcamp will take place in Rainau, a community of five different villages 80km East of Stuttgart. The “Bucher Stausee” is an artificial lake only 2km from the accommodation. The lake is a big leisure area – here you can swim, rent a rowing boat, play beach volleyball, go sailing of fishing and you also find barbecue areas and much more. A second small lake is a protected nature area where you can do bird watching or might see a beaver. Beside of this you can find in Rainau many sights from the Roman period as the Roman Limes (a Roman rampart more than 500km long) was crossing the community. So you can visit a Roman watch tower, ruins of a Roman bath…. The area is perfect for hiking and other outdoor activities, excursions to nice small cities around (Ellwangen, Aalen) are possible too. And of course the villagers are already waiting for you. So for sure you will not get bored.
⚠️ Requirements
You should be able to ride a bicycle.
ℹ️ Additional information
You should be able to ride a bicycle. You have to arrive to Ellwangen before 6.30 pm or the Aalen before 6 pm.
