📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Benevolens Foundation has been taking care of a part of historic Spa Park and historical building in GOuchoOazy ( southern Poland for 4 years.The history of the park dates back to the end of the 19th century and the city is almost 800 years old. In 2016 we reconstructed part of historic park basing on archival postcards. There are paths with educations boards and places with benches and tables to relax surrounded by variety of plants. Its renewed and willingly visited by tourists, but still it requires care and maintenance. Besides, in our park there is a breeding colony of rare species of a bat strictly protected by Polish law and therefore there is a special protection zone in here. The project will take place for a second time.
💼 What the programme involves
Gardening, forestry, cleaning and maintenance works in a historic park (including mowing, weeding, transplanting, cutting wood, chopping firewood, collecting deadwood, laying wood etc).
🏠 Accommodation on site
In a nearby guesthouse. You need to take your sleeping bags and towels. Food for breakfasts and dinners will be provided and you will prepare the meals in a garden house. Lunch will be in nearby restaurant or catering. Internet available by WiFi.
📍 About the location
Charming place in historic Spa Park on the slope of park Mountain in the "Opava Mountains" Landscape Park.GOuchoOazy is a city in southern Poland, in the Nysa poviat, in the Opolskie Voivodeship, on the border with the Czech Republic. The GOuchoOazy commune has numerous hiking trails around the Opava Mountains (Eastern Sudetes), perfect for hiking and walking trips. Beautiful, mountainous areas (the highest peaks around 900m a.s.l.) with rich flora and fauna, clean, healthy air, many architectural monuments.