📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Open Houses
💼 What the programme involves
Organising and leading an international Workcamp is an interesting challenge for those who enjoy working together with young people from all over the world and which are willing to take over responsibility.
For young and older people more interested in the technical side of the works than in the organisation of the social life Open Houses offers the possibility to support the technical leading of Workcamps and Building Weeks in the framework of Mid Term Volunteering. This could be an interesting task for skilled craftsmen, for those which have own manual experiences or for those which want to train their organisational skills.
The leading of the technical side of the Workcamps lies in the hands of one of Open Houses' technical leaders. The volunteer which supports him can overtake a part of the technical leaders' responsibility. Depending on the wishes, the skills and the experience of the volunteer this can be the organisation of the schedule of the working day, the responsibility for tools and material, the leading of a smaller group of volunteers or more special tasks.
For students of architecture, building engineering and similar fields this kind of voluntary service can be recognized as internship for their studies. Open Houses will offer the necessary certificates.
Because of the big variety of the individual curricula and experiences Open Houses will create for every volunteer an individual plan of the voluntary service, including introduction, supervision and evaluation.
Per every week the volunteer supports the technical leader s/he receives 70 € pocket money. S/he does not have to pay for food and accommodation and can take part in all cultural activities and excursions of the camps.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Different places of Open Houses -
In most of Open Houses' camps the volunteers will live at the same places they also work on, what means that they live more or less on a building site. The accommodation is very simple; there are shared rooms with simple beds or mattresses at most of the places. Shower, toilet and kitchen are at the place, but sometimes not in the same building.
The equipment is simple but fair. After work, when everybody wants to take a shower, it may happen that there is a limit of hot water.
The meals will be prepared together as they are part of the community life, what means that every participant will be responsible for the meal at least once during its stay.
So it would be very nice if the participants could bring typical recipes from home in order to introduce each other to the preparation of food from all over the world.
📍 About the location
Excursions to cities nearby on weekends
⚠️ Requirements
CV + photo, Motivation letter related to the project, good level of English required