📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
For the first time, a workcamp is held on the outskirts of the city Brno (Tuřany) in cooperation with the local association Práh. Práh helps to promote and defend the rights of people with mental illness and improves the public perception of people with mental illness. It helps the clients to overcome problems related to mental illness in basic life areas: work, independent living, education, healthcare, interpersonal, family and partner relationships, leisure time etc. The aim of the workcamp is to create a cosy place in the garden of association Práh which will serve the clients and the public for therapy and relaxation. The workamp will also contribute to the project within which the garden will also be used for agriculture production (herbs, vegetables).
💼 What the programme involves
Work will be manual. The beginning of the workcamp will be devoted to the cultivation of the garden. We will start with removing branches from fences. We will also cut the bushes and clean the garden space. After the cleaning we will start building garden beds. In case of rain or if we have time we will put down a wall in a cellar and we will clean out the cellar. After that we will bring straw and prepare conditions for oyster mushroom cultivation. The volunteers will also get involved in social therapeutic workshops where they will work together with the clients; they will for example make labels for the trees and insect houses. Bring working clothes and solid shoes. You will also work one weekend together with Czech volunteers.
Study part: There will be an introductory session for the volunteers introducing them with the organization, with the target group and activities that take place in the association. You will have a chance to meet the clients of the association and local people (campfire together with the Czech volunteers).
🏠 Accommodation on site
In former school that now serves as premises of the association. There will be 1-2 rooms equipped with sleeping mattresses, big common room, showers and kitchen with basic equipment. Lunches will be provided (imported from a canteen), vegetarian variant possible. You will prepare your own breakfasts and dinners.
📍 About the location
Tuřany - peripheral part of Brno, second largest city in the Czech Republic. The workcamp will take place in the premises of association Práh - in an old school building with a big garden and cellars. There are many workshop rooms in the old school where clients work with their hands.
Leasure time: Tour through the city Brno (the city centre and its surroundings, visit of the quarry Hády with the view of the whole Brno, visit to the Lama centre), cultural activities according to current offer (concerts, festivals of food, bathing at Brno Reservoir). One day before the end of the workcamp the garden will be open to the public, there will be a campfire and a concert.
ℹ️ Additional information
Workcamp is suitable for volunteers interested in garden work, social and therapeutic work.