📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
Together with the local youth group, an ijgd workcamp cleaned up a long-standing empty building by the quarry pond in Ingolstadt in 2012. Since then, this building has been used as a centre focusing on youth work and education for the locals of Ingolstadt, as well as a green classroom . Your task will be to develop an attic space within the building, under the guidance of local artisans. You will, amongst other things, lay down flooring and partition walls. Besides this, in the area outside the building, you ll use historical bricks and tiles to build a bread oven.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Your accommodation will consist of camp beds in large tents (4 to 6 people per tent) on the grounds of the quarry pond s youth centre (around 2km away from the town centre). A kitchen and bathroom facilities are also available. Meals will be a mix of participants cooking together for themselves (for breakfast and dinner) and being catered for (lunch on the building site).
📍 About the location
The fortified town of Ingolstadt lies on the river Donau and has many historical sights to offer. The old town boasts many splendid churches, castles and town houses. There are also museums and a zoo. You can go swimming in the quarry pond right next to the youth centre, or in the outdoor swimming pool next to the cultural youth centre Fronte 79 , located 2km away. After 4pm, you can also meet local youth in Fronte 79, and even make use of the table football, billiards and internet connection there. There are bicycles available for you to travel the 2km into town. Day trips to Nurnberg, Munich and the Alps are also possible. At the quarry pond itself, there is Minigolf, boat rental, indoor climbing walls, an animal enclosure and an archery range.
⚠️ Requirements
You should be able to ride a bicycle. A flair for working with tools is desirable, as well as a passion for physical work.
ℹ️ Additional information
More info on the quarry pond s youth centre: www.sjr-in.de/537. More info on Fronte 79 cultural youth centre: www.sjr-in.de/index_fronte