📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
This camp will be a part of a unique ecological festival held on the organic farm/ art eco-settlement “Art Island Obyrok” in a partnership with Ukrainian Club of Organic Agriculture. The festival will happen on August 25-28. It is focused on art events and attracting more people to the beautiful creative life in the nature. The main idea is promoting organic environmentally friendly lifestyle as the most beneficial, show people different aspects of sustainable development such as eco-building, permaculture, organic farming, healthy eating, etc. All these activities are put into the interactive form of tomato festival that includes lots of practical workshops, contests, fun and tomatoes. During the festival organizers plan to run an ecological version of Spanish Tomatina in Ukranian style. Intrigued? Come and see yourself!
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers are welcome to help in different spheres: working on land - growing plants in the organic garden, helping on the kitchen: drying vegetables and fruits etc, preparing of the festival space before festival - arranging the territory, putting dust bags, helping in establishing of tent place, cutting invasive vegetation, collecting wastes, etc. Helping to clean the territory and return it previous look after the festival. During the Festival Days volunteers will have opportunity to participate and assist in different master-classes, art and cultural events.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In tents. Food provided. Food will be vegetarian and cooked from local exclusively organic products.
📍 About the location
Village Obyrky (Obyrok), Chernihiv region
Volunteers can take part in all the activities of the festival, enjoy the beautiful nature sights, swim in the river nearby, gather flowers and herbs, visit art-village, communicate with many eco-activists and creative people.
ℹ️ Additional information
The camp is SAFELY far from conflict zone. UNION FORUM takes very seriously volunteers safety. We do the camps only in a places which are safe in a long-term prognosis. We guarantee to inform the volunteers and sending organisations immediately in case the conflict situation will change to worse even if it will be still safe for camp sites.