📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
The focus is on the maintenance and promotion of biodiversity in dry meadows, peatlands or community gardens. Other work depends on weather conditions: clearing shrubbery from dry meadows, peatlands and along cultural structures; collecting stones to build cairns or dry-stone walls; retrieving branches and stacking them into piles; maintaining water streams; help in community or school gardens, participating in a littering project by collecting litter in an area along the main river in Engadin, the Inn River. You can also participate in environmental education events if your language skills allow it or if they are hold in English. Please be aware that the working days might be rather long, as they include travelling to different locations in the valley, as you will be working in various places. This is a great opportunity to explore the region. The specific working hours vary from day to day and are adjusted according to the temperature (on warm days, for example, work starts a little earlier, when it is still cool).
🏠 Accommodation on site
AccommodationYou will live in a house for groups. It is nicely equipped and also offers space for after-work activities. For the overnight stays you have to bring 1 sleeping bag, 1 bed sheet and 1 pillow case (at least 60cm x 60cm). 1 pillow and 1 woolen blanket per bed are available. Toilets and showers are available in the group house. Access to a washing machine can be arranged. There is Wi-Fi in the accommodation. In the accommodation of this camp, the consumption of alcohol is not permittedFoodThe volunteers have to buy food and cook on their own ( a budget is available. The volunteers are responsible for preparing all the food during the camp. Sometimes the SCI volunteers will cook together with the volunteer camp hosting partner, but not every day (or evening). Please be aware that for lunch, volunteers will prepare sandwiches they will take with them to the working place. Groceries can be bought in the village and obtained from regional and sustainable resources. We recommend you to limit your meat consumption, so as to contribute to the camps principle of sustainability. I
📍 About the location
The volunteer camp hosting partner will propose to the SCI volunteers a selection of leisure activities, so you can decide together which activity you prefer. Volunteers will get a free regional train ticket for the two weeks so that you can also travel for free on the weekend.
⚠️ Requirements
Please note that the work is physically demanding, as it involves working outdoors in steep terrain, lifting stones and cutting down branchesYou absolutely must bring good waterproof mountain- or trekking shoes. Gym shoes won t do it The working area can be steep and might be slippery.Generally, you should be ready to be offline during the workshops, working sessions and group leisure time activities. The volunteer camp is about intercultural exchange ( for the following reason, the mobile phone should not always be present so that the volunteers can exchange ideas with each other and learn about the content.Camp language is English. The local languages are Romansh and German. Not everybody on the side of the volunteer camp hosting partner speaks English well ( but during most days there will be an additional person who speaks English and during the other days the volunteer camp hosting partner is supported by the SCI volunteer coordinators for translations.
ℹ️ Additional information
For volunteers applying via Partner Organisations AKHamp; Contacts of SCI, an additional fee of 50 EUR, also referred to as the incoming fee, is due and needs to be given in cash to the camp coordinator during the camp:I https://scich.org/en/incoming-fee/The fee can be paid in Euro (50 Euros) or Swiss Franc (45 CHF).