📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
During this camp, participants will help the local community in Schönau an der Triesing, lower Austria, by renovating and gardening at the Waldorfschool. Apart from supporting school renovation and gaining hands-on experience on gardening, you will have a chance to participate in workshops that will focus on civil society and civic participation both in totalitarian regimes and in contemporary times through non-formal activities such as interactive discussions, theater of the oppressed, activity games and visits.
💼 What the programme involves
Every summer a new part of the school building and the garden is renovated. This year the plan is to paint the classrooms, to do some gardening, wood work, other building and renovation tasks. No previous experience is required.
Apart from school renovation there will be a study part activities focused on remembering the nonviolent civil resistance during the Nazi-fascism in Europe. We will have group discussions, reflections, interactive games, videos and documentaries about this theme.
🏠 Accommodation on site
There will be a simple shared accommodation for the group. There are two sleeping rooms with mattresses - you will need to bring your sleeping bags. Volunteers will plan the menu together and cook for themselves and the partner organisation will provide the food.
📍 About the location
The Workcamp will take place in the Waldorfschool that is situated just 30 km south of Vienna, in Schönau an der Triesing; a small village in the region of Lower Austria.
ℹ️ Additional information
In 2022 many SCI workcamps will have an additional fee of €50.00. This will cover - local hosting costs; insurance costs of the volunteer; a small travel fund to enable disadvantaged volunteers to join projects; administration costs of SCI International.
If you apply through an SCI branch the fee will be included in the fee you pay to your sending branch. If you apply through a partner organisation you will pay the fee on arrival at the project; direct to the hosting branch or through different payment platforms. When accepted on the project the host branch will give you more details of the various payment options.
