📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The ijgd has been organising volunteer service programmes since 1949. We are an independent, non-profit association for international youth work, a recognised independent youth welfare organisation, and one of the largest and oldest workcamp organisations in Germany. Each year, we assist around 5,000 young people into volunteer work in Germany and abroad. We give them the opportunity to be creative, act in solidarity, take responsibility for themselves, and discover their own true potential and strengths. Our principles: Ecological learning, voluntary contribution, self-organisation, social development, intercultural learning, gender equality, anti-racism/anti-discrimination and political education.Follow us onInstagram ijgd_workcampsFacebook @ijgd.workcamps
💼 What the programme involves
If you want to spend your summer in a very special place surrounded by greenery, then come to the Old Brickworks Gahlen: There you will find the integrative environmental education institution Interforum e.V. It is a meeting place and action space for various target groups. Your task will be to take care of this special place. There will be a variety of tasks depending on your needs and interests. Possible tasks are e.g. helping with construction projects to beautify the area in the field of garden and landscape art = LandArt or with renovation work, but also nature-related work such as the care and harvesting of the many gardens.This project exists for many years and has therefore been co-created by many volunteers before you, so there are some days when you can come up with small projects together as a group and share your ideas and develop more actively together.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You sleep in small, very simple bungalows on the premises. In the main house there are sanitary rooms with toilets and showers. The kitchen is in a separate small house.You cook together. Money for the food shopping is provided to you. Vegetarian or vegan meals are possible. Please indicate any allergies when registering.
📍 About the location
You will spend your work camp in the middle of nature on the paradisiacal grounds of the old brickyard. You are invited to try out everything you can do outdoors: swimming in the lake or in the small pool, biking, playing soccer and table tennis, and in the evening sitting around the campfire and looking at the stars. By bike you can quickly reach a swimming lake. In addition, there are dogs, cats and sheep, with which you can possibly even go for a walk And of course you can also bike to the nearby small towns of Calau or Gahlen or go on weekends to Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig or even Poland and the Czech Republic. Camplocation: Gahlen, 32km from Cottbus, Brandenburg
ℹ️ Additional information
Bring warm clothes, a warm sleeping bag and bug spray.Please note: There is a special Teenage Fee of 150aO for international volunteers who applied under 18 in this camp.