Summer in the city - build a venue for kids

Name: Summer in the city - build a venue for kids
Start: 2024-08-03
End: 2024-08-24
Location: Bielefeld, Germany

Germany Construction Manual work Renovation Construction Manual work +1 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The ijgd has been organising volunteer service programmes since 1949. We are an independent, non-profit association for international youth work, a recognised independent youth welfare organisation, and one of the largest and oldest workcamp organisations in Germany. Each year, we assist around 5,000 young people into volunteer work in Germany and abroad. We give them the opportunity to be creative, act in solidarity, take responsibility for themselves, and discover their own true potential and strengths. Our principles: Ecological learning, voluntary contribution, self-organisation, social development, intercultural learning, gender equality, anti-racism/anti-discrimination and political education. Follow us on Instagram ijgd_workcamps Facebook @ijgd.workcamps

💼 What the programme involves

With your help, a playground in Bielefeld will be cleaned and renovated, so that it\'s once again attractive and appealing for children in the local area. You\'ll be working on the old playground equipment, repairing the sand boxes and other broken parts, renewing the floor with the heavily demanded playing surface, laying don paths and setting up new safety precautions to protect the children. Alongside this, we also ask you to bring your creativity as you\'ll be able to redesign the playground with your paintbrushes and imagination. At the end of the camp, you will organise an official opening of the new playground for the children and their parents in the local area.

🏠 Accommodation on site

You cook together. Money for the food shopping is provided to you. Vegetarian or vegan meals are possible. Please indicate any allergies when registering. You will be staying in a hay warehouse surrounded by beautiful grounds.

📍 About the location

Bielefeld, a town with 300,000 inhabitants, lies of the edge of the Teutoburg forest. The town offers many free-time and cultural opportunities, such as music and theatre attractions, cinemas, pubs etc. The Teutoburg forest is a great place to go walking. It is also possible to take a day trip to the towns of Hanover, Osnabrück or Münster. Highlights: There are plenty of restaurants, bars, discos, museums, theaters and cinemas. The pretty old town is small but nice.