📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The camp host is the governing body of Suomenlinna. Suomenlinna (Sveaborg) is a sea fortress, built gradually from 1748 onwards on a group of islands belonging to the district of Helsinki. Suomenlinna sees voluntary participation as a chance to include everyone in the ongoing process of defining and managing cultural heritage. We see a clear need to allow people and organisations to have a stake in protection, maintenance, development and advocacy of our World Heritage.
💼 What the programme involves
The camp will build on the great results of the previous year s WHV-camp. More emphasis this year will be put to protection of the fauna of the fortress and informing the visitors about it. We have also penciled in joint activities with local artists and artisans, youth workers and residents. Suomenlinna will be active with the volunteering getting a maximum amount of exposure for the WHV experience via the social media as it happens. The results will be used to promote Suomenlinna s World Heritage status and the continuing need to protect and develop it. We have plenty of landscaping tasks that cannot be performed by machinery but instead by manual labour. Also the volunteers will perform visitor information tasks under the supervision of our staff. In the busy month of August the number of visitors can exceed 200 000 and majority of them are foreign.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will stay in a hostel, the meals will be provided.
📍 About the location
Suomenlinna is covering an area of 80 ha and consisting of 200 buildings and 6 km of defensive walls, the fortress stretches over six separate islands. More information: http://www.suomenlinna.fi/en/
⚠️ Requirements
The volunteers need to have interest towards World Heritage and prepare themselves before the camp in order to tell about the World Heritage projects in their home countries. The applicants need to write a one page motivation letter explaining why they would like to join the project, if they have any previous experience in WHvolunteering and what could be their contribution to the project. The volunteers need travel insurance for the duration of their stay.