📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Scout organization Djordje Simeonovic and TOC i Timok Youth Center, are non-political, non-profit, nongovernmental, civic society organizations focused on the development of specific life skills in balance with the nature, the affirmation of healthy lifestyles for young people, as well as the fostering of cultural and ethical values of citizens and the society.
💼 What the programme involves
The volunteers will continue with the activities started on our first workcamp last year: making fences, gates, lookouts, fireplaces, amphitheatres and the balcony around the scout s home in the Park-forest Kraljevica . We will use hand tools and natural materials, mostly stones and wood.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In the scout s house in Park-forest Kraljevica , with the use of the kitchen and bathrooms. You need to bring your sleeping bag and a pillow cover. Meals will be organized by local hosts and there will be a possibility for volunteers who want to make some dishes they particularly like form their countries.
📍 About the location
Zajecar is placed in Eastern Serbia and it has a population of around 40000 people. It is placed in a pit between 2 mountain arcs, Carpathian and Balkans. There are 2 rivers (The White and The Black Timok) that go through the town and their flows meet to form one river, The Big Timok. Around Zajecar there are 3 artificial lakes, and a very important archaeological site Gamzigrad (with famous Felix Romuliana), an archaeological site, spa resort and UNESCO World Heritage Site of Serbia http://www.serbia.travel/culture/archaeological-sites/Gamzigrad.a-143.651.html. During free time the volunteers will have a possibility to use the own pool and rivers for swimming and also they will have an opportunity to visit Zajecar and its cultural heritage. Several workshops related to the topic of workcamp will be organized.