📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Every year in the summer holidays, the town hall of Kelkheim offers a summer camp for more than 300 girls and boys. It is called Sonnental (sun valley) and for children between 6 to 12 years. It is organised and performed by the staff of the Department of Youth and Integration of Kelkheim (Taunus). They idea is that children create and live in their own Children Town. They will work in different fields, they will earn money, will spend money according their own decision and they will train political participation by doing elections of a mayor and editing a newspaper. Everything is just like in real life An important aspect of the summer camp is that children get the opportunity to develop their social skills, that they get an awareness of being part of a community and that they experience inclusion of children with diverse backgrounds as something positive.The location of this holiday games will be in a primary school of Kelkheim and near the accommodation of the workcamp.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will take part in one of the different activities and plan the daily activities together with the children. The framework programme of the holiday games will be to a great extent prepared in advance by the team members and management. However, time and space will be provided to the international volunteers to bring their own ideas and to be part of the team structure. For this, volunteers will work closely with their local supervisors in the different activities.Children Town is a playground where life and learning spaces for children, in which they can identify their everyday experiences. Children create here their first experiences with social, economic and political processes. They experience that in a Game Town , they can shape their living conditions. Pedagogical learning content as well as fun time will be equally offered. Volunteers get to know the overall concept of this summer camp as well as the pedagogical work with children.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be hosted in the youth center of Kelkheim. They can spend some free time there and use the kitchen for having breakfast and dinner. During the holiday games, participants will get lunch together with the children. The youth center has a pool table and table football that can be used during free time. Showers can be taken in the sports hall of the school, just a few meters away.
📍 About the location
Participants get free tickets for the swimming pool of Kelkheim during their stay. A city tour of Kelkheim is scheduled with, among others, some information about the development of the first democratic institutions in Germany. Heinrich von Gagern, who lived with his family in Kelkheim was the first president elected by the German Parlament in the PaulIs Church of Frankfurt in the years around the Revolution of 1848.A visit to the close metropolis of Frankfurt am Main is also planned. Frankfurt has about 700.000 inhabitants and is considered as both the national and European financial center, which also provides a wide range of cultural offers. Region: Kelkheim (Taunus) with aproximately 30.000 inhabitants is a city quite near to Frankfurt, situated in the hills of mountain range Taunus.
ℹ️ Additional information
After the confirmation of participation it is required to sign a declaration of legal protection of children and youngsters.