📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The partner of the project is the Regional Association for Nature Conservation and Sustainable Development (BROZ), established in 1997. The activities of BROZ are focused on practical nature conservation and sustainable development support mostly in the region of southwestern Slovakia. Activities of BROZ focus on Danube river restoration projects and rehabilitation of adjacent waterways and wetlands.
💼 What the programme involves
Work will be done at the local Eco Farm and Eco Center, where volunteers will spend time helping with renovation efforts. Volunteers will take care of the animals (sheeps, horses, cows, goats) and will help with the environmental conservation efforts of the local nature protection areas. Volunteers will pick up trash and remove invasive kind of grasses.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will stay in the local farm house and will sleep on the beds. The accommodation in tents is possible. A sleeping bag is needed. The centre has fully equipped kitchen, toilets and showers. The volunteers will prepare food by themselves (breakfasts, dinners) and Lunch can be arranged by a local guesthouse, or in the kitchen in apartment house Vegetarian food is possible.
📍 About the location
The area offers several opportunities for leisure. Volunteers can do horseback riding, go birdwatching, fish and kayak.
Zlatna na Ostrove, the south part of Slovakia. The workcamp place is on 3km long Velkolelsky island near the village Zlatna na Ostrove. The volunteers could travel directly from Bratislava or from Komarno where you can arrive from Budapest. The meeting point will be directly in the village Zlatna na Ostrove where the volunteers will be accommodated.
ℹ️ Additional information
You should bring sleeping bag, warm clothes, raincoat, working clothes and gloves,
For more info about the project www.broz.sk;