📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
Everything in this camp is about the international exchange between you and the children and young people form Solingen. The Solingen Youth Association organises summer holiday activities in different parts of the town with various partners for up to 500 children aged between 6 and 13 years old. Your help is needed with carrying out these holiday activities: together with volunteers from Solingen, you will supervise the children. During the introduction and communal preparation on Thursday and Friday, we will ask you for some of your own creative ideas: you should bring some of your backgrounds and stories from home with you, so that the primary school children can learn about other cultures during the activities. Perhaps you’ll meet some children in Germany who also come from different countries or whose parents have moved here. Music, dances, customs, typical food, as well as every creative and sporty idea you have, are all welcome. Use your skills and get involved! You will also be helping out during the “Bärenwoche” week. The “Bärenwoche” is a children’s activity week in a huge recreational facility (https://baerenwoche.blogspot.com/p/startseite.html). On offer are slides, air cushions, hockey sticks, craft ideas and much more. There are playgrounds in Solingen or at children's and youth meetings and the children can use the open offer as they wish. Here you will also be helping out with the supervision of the children. In the youth centre there will be a welcome festival at the start of the holidays, so that you can get to know the local young people. You will be helping to design the festival. We also want to have a meeting with you and the children, where the children will be able to ask you questions, so that the little visitors to our centre will be able to get to know you better. We thought of having a group football tournament as well. As you can see, you will never be bored during this camp. Anyone who wants to organise activities with children is welcome to joins us! There is a registration fee of 50 EUR for participants who are not from Germany.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be staying in the youth centre.
You will cook together.
📍 About the location
Solingen is located in the Bergisch Land region and cities such as Düsseldorf and Cologne are easily reachable by train if you want to go on an excursion. Within 2 hours you can also travel to Xanten and spend a lovely day at the Xantener lake playing water sports and swimming. There is also a large archaeological park there, which you can visit. The Burg castle in Solingen is also worth a visit. It is the largest reconstructed castle grounds in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany. You will be staying in the youth centre, which means you can also play table football and pool in your free time. The youth centre is in the town centre.
⚠️ Requirements
Pedagogical experience, an interest and desire to work with children are all absolute requirements of this camp. Artistic, creative, technical and sports skills are all an advantage. You should be open to meeting and working with children and young people.
ℹ️ Additional information
Pedagogical experience, an interest and desire to work with children are all absolute requirements of this camp. Artistic, creative, technical and sports skills are all an advantage. You should be open to meeting and working with children and young people.