WE ARE DIFFERENT BUT WE ARE TOGETHER

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Russian Federation Children Children Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

This camp for Russian kids takes place every year on the bank of the lake Shap in the middle if the pine forest. International volunteers work together with local volunteers as counselors and organize cultural and educational activities for the participants (local school kids i aged 8-16)

💼 What the programme involves

1. Making intercultural and educational workshops (about the volunteers native countries, ecology, water resources, human rights, antiracism, etc); 2. Teaching foreign languages to the participants (in the form of playing games, singing songs or improve their language skills through discussions); 3. Organizing some sport activities, strategic games, shows and handcrafts.

🏠 Accommodation on site

In the camp for children Shap , in wooden houses; counselors live together in male, female, mixed rooms. Shower and Russian sauna are available all the time. No sleeping bags are needed, food is provided in the local camp cafeteria.

📍 About the location

The workcamp is situated in Russia, Cheboksary. The volunteers will need to fly (or arrive with any other transport: train, bus etc.) to Moscow and take a train from Moscow to Cheboksary. In Cheboksary the volunteers will be met by the local volunteers and move altogether to the workcamp. As the workcamp is located in Chuvashia i a small local ethnicity to the east from Moscow i the volunteers will get the chance to learn the culture of this local ethnicity, its history and difference from the Russian Culture.

ℹ️ Additional information

if the volunteer requires a visa to come to Russia, please apply 1 month beforehand to have enough time to obtain the visa

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📅 Available sessions

RU-SOD 7.7

02/07/2021 → 15/07/2021

Closed

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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–60 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Cheboksary, Chuvashia Republic, Russia

Russian Federation

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Russia Ruble (RUB / ₽)

Exchange rate

1 RUB = 0.010802 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Moscow Standard Time

Local time: 21:31 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Russian