📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Youth association «Youth for Smile» is non-profit non-political youth organization established in 2005. Our organization's mission says that we are strong and value-based children and youth non-governmental organization that in achieving its targeted goals, objectives and basic principles, act as impetus for the growth of society and the basic principles of civil society strengthening. Our main aims are unite children's and youth to promote their participation in non-formal education, in order to develop far and wide skills and abilities active take part within social processes in local, national and international level. All our activities are close with our values: fairness and equality; mutual understanding and tolerance; active and healthy way of living; development of personality; understanding and creative atmosphere; be friend of environment.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will help to organise outdoor activities for social disadvantaged children in Vecumnieki municipality. In the first days of work camp participants will have preparation training for outdoor activities with children, for example, orientation, tourism sport, low and high ropes, non-formal education methods for team building, conflict management. Volunteers will assist in integration and consolidation activities for children in age 7 till 15. These activities will be organised in different villages in Vecumnieki municipality (Stelpe, Barbele, Vecumnieki, Misa, Skaistkalne and Valle). We made ecological garden. Volunteers will help as well in gardening work.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Living conditions are very basic. The volunteers are accommodated in the tents or youth centre. Toilets and washing facilities are provided. Cooking is done by volunteers themselves on camp fire or in basic kitchen.
📍 About the location
Work camp will be organized at Vecumnieki municipality. The Vecumnieki municipality borders with Iecava, Bauska, Nereta, Ķegums, Baldone and Jaunjelgava municipalities and the Republic of Lithuania. The municipal territory consists of Kurmene, Valle, Bārbele, Skaistkalne, Stelpe and Vecumnieki parishes. The administrative centre of the municipality is Vecumnieki, located 50 km from Rīga and 30 km from Bauska. During work camp we will have possibilities as well to visit different cultural and historical places. Volunteers will have possibilities to organise intercultural events etc.