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22/07 – 04/08
AGRI/RENO
Vols: 12 + 2 team leaders
AGE: 18+

Project: The civic association Camphill tries to create an adequate home for people with mental disabilities. The community runs a day centre and a resident project for people with special needs. At the moment 7 clients are permanently living at the centre. There are also two therapeutic workshops and an organic farm, products of which are sold to organic shops and on markets. According to anthroposophy (the philosophy of the centre), emphasis is put on the harmonic life in a family-like community.

Work: The volunteers will perform two different kinds of manual work. Firstly, they will be helping on the organic farm (planting, watering, weeding, harvesting, preparing the products for selling …) and taking care of a garden. Secondly, they will maintain the area of the community and do some minor construction and renovation works (f.e. building walls, cleaning, cutting grass, reparations). Bring good working gear and boots.

Study part: Lectures about the Camphill movement, anthroposophy and organic farming. Visit to the nearby Terezin Memorial at the location of the former concentration camp for Jews – the Terezin Ghetto. Workshops on different handicraft techniques will be organized for you. It’s possible to organize an intercultural evening with games and intercultural activities, so take some pictures and music that represents you with you as well as some interesting recipes.

Leisure time: You can make trips to the surrounding towns and visit some cultural events there, go hiking in the nearby beautiful hills, swim in the river just behind the centre, have boat trips, do some sports (football, volleyball, table tennis) and go on a cycling tour along the river...

Accommodation/Food: In a big hall on mattresses. Bring a sleeping bag and a sleeping mat. One shower with hot water and internet will be available. The volunteers will prepare their breakfasts and dinners on their own, for the lunches they will assist the community cook with the preparation of the meal.

Location: Ceske Kopisty – a small village near the historical town of Litomerice.

Note: As you will stay in a community for people with mental health issues, smoking and the consumption of alcohol and drugs are forbidden within the community area. Please respect night-time peace and the privacy of the clients’ accommodation.

11/08 – 24/08
AGRI/RENO
Vols: 16 + 2 team leaders
AGE: 18+

This is a special UK-Czech project. The group of volunteers will consist of 8 – 12 volunteers from Wales (and possible other parts of the UK) and of 4 – 6 Czech volunteers.

Project: The civic association Camphill Ceske Kopisty tries to create an adequate home for people with mental disabilities. The community runs a day centre and a resident project for people with special needs. At the moment there are 7 clients permanently living in the community. There are also two therapeutic workshops and an organic farm, products of which are sold to organic shops and on markets. Emphasis is put on the harmonic life in a family-like community on a biodynamic farm. We are part of the international Camphill Movement.

Work: The volunteers will perform two different kinds of manual work. Firstly, they will be helping on the organic farm (planting, watering, weeding) and care for the garden. Secondly, they will maintain the area of the community and do some minor construction and renovation works (f.e. building walls, cleaning, cutting grass, reparations).

Study part: Lectures about the Camphill movement, anthroposophy and organic farming. Visit to the nearby Terezin with the Memorial of the former concentration camp for Jews – the Terezin Ghetto. Workshops on different handicraft techniques will be organized for you. It’s possible to organize an intercultural evening with games and intercultural activities, so bring some pictures and music that represents you and your culture as well as some interesting recipes.

Leisure time: You can make trips to the surrounding towns and visit some cultural events there, go hiking in the nearby beautiful hills, swim in the river just behind the centre, have boat trips, do some sports (football, volleyball, table tennis) and go on a cycling tour along the river...

Accommodation/Food: In a big hall on mattresses. Bring a sleeping bag and a sleeping mat. One shower with hot water and internet will be available. The volunteers will prepare their breakfasts and dinners on their own, for the lunches they will assist the community cook with the preparation of the meal.

Location: Ceske Kopisty – a small village, part of town Terezin, near the historical town of Litomerice.

Note: As you will stay in a community for people with mental health issues, smoking and the consumption of alcohol and drugs are forbidden within the community area. Please respect night-time peace and the privacy of the clients’ accommodation.

21/07 - 04/08
RENO
Vols: 5+5+1 teamleader
Age: 18+

Project: Ledovec is a non-governmental organization offering support to people with psychiatric diseases or mental health handicaps. For their clients it works as a “rural training home” and assists them to keep or improve the quality of their everyday lives. As a part of the centre there is a big garden and a farm with goats, sheep and chicken. The centre organizes a number of interesting activities for the public as well. 
Since 2002 the centre organizes a voluntary project where volunteers from the Czech Republic and from abroad work together with the centre’s therapists to improve the area of an old parish house in the village Ledce where the centre is situated.

Work: The workcamp takes place in the centre which is closed for the majority of clients. The volunteers help with the running of the centre at that time (taking care of the animals, the garden and the house). They perform general cleaning of the house and assist at current reconstruction work (reconstruction of the barn, walls, an outside area of the centre).
Take working clothes and working boots.

Part of the work is to help with the preparation and organisation of the “Traditional Fair Celebration” – a cultural one-day event for the public, where different handcrafts are presented and various kinds of traditional fair entertainment will be seen.

Study part: The volunteers will receive an introductory lecture on the centre’s activities and principles of the psychosocial support offered to the clients. During the project, the centre’s therapeutic workshops will be open for you (weaving, bread making, candle workshop).

Leisure time: The centre will organize trips with their own minibus, often to cultural events in Plzen – Cultural Capital 2015 or other places of interest. For everyday time off after work the centre provides joggling equipment, 5 bikes, 4 canoes and maps for trips to the surrounding countryside.

Accommodation/Food: In the main building in beds or on mattresses; bring a sleeping bag. Hot water, a shower and three toilets are available. You will receive homemade food three times a day in the centre (vegetarian dishes available). The volunteers will be involved in preparing the meals.

Location: The village Ledce, about 8 kilometres northwest from Plzen (Pilsen). In the village you find Ledovec in the old parish house in the very centre of the village close to the church. The participants can be picked up at the train or bus station in Plzen.

Note: The group will consist of 10 international volunteers – 5 from a partner organization of the centre and 5 international volunteers that will be placed by INEX-SDA. There will be only one shower for the group. The group will be responsible for itself and organize itself under the “supervision” of the centre’s manager.

03/06 – 16/06
AGRI/RENO
Vols: 12 + 2 team leaders
AGE: 18+

Project: The civic association Camphill tries to create an adequate home for people with mental disabilities. The community runs a day centre and a resident project for people with special needs. At the moment 7 clients are permanently living at the centre. There are also two therapeutic workshops and an organic farm, products of which are sold to organic shops and on markets. According to anthroposophy (the philosophy of the centre), emphasis is put on the harmonic life in a family-like community.

Work: The volunteers will perform two different kinds of manual work. Firstly, they will be helping on the organic farm (planting, watering, weeding) and taking care of a garden. Secondly, they will maintain the area of the community and do some minor construction and renovation works (e.g. building walls, cleaning, cutting grass, reparations). Bring good working gear and boots.

Study part: Lectures about the Camphill movement, anthroposophy and organic farming. Visit to the nearby Terezin Memorial at the location of the former concentration camp for Jews – the Terezin Ghetto. Workshops on different handicraft techniques will be organized for you. It’s possible to organize an intercultural evening with games and intercultural activities, so take some pictures and music that represents you with you as well as some interesting recipes.

Leisure time: You can make trips to the surrounding towns and visit some cultural events there, go hiking in the nearby beautiful hills, swim in the river just behind the centre, have boat trips, do some sports (football, volleyball, table tennis) and go on a cycling tour along the river...

Accommodation/Food: In a big hall on mattresses. Bring a sleeping bag and a sleeping mat. One shower with hot water and internet will be available. The volunteers will prepare their breakfasts and dinners on their own, for the lunches they will assist the community cook with the preparation of the meal.

Location: Ceske Kopisty – a small village near the historical town of Litomerice.

Note: As you will stay in a community for people with mental health issues, smoking and the consumption of alcohol and drugs are forbidden within the community area. Please respect night-time peace and the privacy of the clients’ accommodation.

24/06 – 07/07
AGRI/RENO
Vols: 12 + 2 team leaders
AGE: 18+

Project: The civic association Camphill tries to create an adequate home for people with mental disabilities. The community runs a day centre and a resident project for people with special needs. At the moment 7 clients are permanently living at the centre. There are also two therapeutic workshops and an organic farm, products of which are sold to organic shops and on markets. According to anthroposophy (the philosophy of the centre), emphasis is put on the harmonic life in a family-like community.

Work: The volunteers will perform two different kinds of manual work. Firstly, they will be helping on the organic farm (planting, watering, weeding, harvesting …) and taking care of a garden. Secondly, they will maintain the area of the community and do some minor construction and renovation works (f.e. building walls, cleaning, cutting grass, reparations). Bring good working gear and boots.

Study part: Lectures about the Camphill movement, anthroposophy and organic farming. Visit to the nearby Terezin Memorial at the location of the former concentration camp for Jews – the Terezin Ghetto. Workshops on different handicraft techniques will be organized for you. It’s possible to organize an intercultural evening with games and intercultural activities, so take some pictures and music that represents you with you as well as some interesting recipes.

Leisure time: You can make trips to the surrounding towns and visit some cultural events there, go hiking in the nearby beautiful hills, swim in the river just behind the centre, have boat trips, do some sports (football, volleyball, table tennis) and go on a cycling tour along the river...

Accommodation/Food: In a big hall on mattresses. Bring a sleeping bag and a sleeping mat. One shower with hot water and internet will be available. The volunteers will prepare their breakfasts and dinners on their own, for the lunches they will assist the community cook with the preparation of the meal.

Location: Ceske Kopisty – a small village near the historical town of Litomerice.

Note: As you will stay in a community for people with mental health issues, smoking and the consumption of alcohol and drugs are forbidden within the community area. Please respect night-time peace and the privacy of the clients’ accommodation.

28/06 – 13/07
KIDS/RENO
Vols: 10 + 2 teamleaders
Age: 18+

Project: The voluntary project is organized by the non-governmental organization “Centre for all”, which organizes free time activities and summer camps for children and youth with and without handicaps. The activities take place in a reconstructed barn with a pretty garden in a small village and in the centre of the organization in the town Nymburk.
For more information visit the organization’s website: www.centrumprovsechny.cz

Work: The volunteers will perform two different kinds of work: Firstly you will help with practical manual tasks indoors and outdoors: gardening, putting up tents and teepees, help in the kitchen, prepare the barn for the arrival of the clients (moving furniture, cleaning, decorating and preparing games and activities for the children and youth), who will arrive at the second week of the project. Secondly the group will work with children and youth with autism and other disabilities, who spend their vacation at the village (general assistance, organization of activities for the clients, going with them on walks outside the centre etc.).

Study part: In the first week you will get a lecture on autism and a workshop on methods how to work with children and youth affected by autism. The group will visit a school for children with handicaps and special needs. You will also learn about the famous Czech author Bohumil Hrabal, who was born in Nymburk.

Leisure time: Tour around the spa town Poděbrady, excursions to the castle of Loučeň, to a local brewery and to the surrounding countryside are planned. We will also organize an intercultural day/evening in Nymburk.

Accommodation/Food: Part of the time you will be accommodated in modern tents or in a barn in Jizbice (the village where the children and youth camp takes place). The rest of the time you will sleep in a house in Nymburk that serves as a centre for the organization. Please bring a sleeping bag and a headlamp. You will help with preparing the food, so bring some interesting recipes with you.

Location: Nymburk and the village of Jizbice (8 kilometres from the town Nymburk).

Notes: Smoking is forbidden while working with the children. Bring working clothes with you that can get dirty! You will need clothes for all kind of weather (raingear and waterproof working boots). A motivation letter sent with the application form is strictly required.

16/07 – 29/07
SOCI
Vols: 8 + 2 team leaders
Age: 18+

Project: The project is organized in co-operation with the Czech humanitarian organization “People in Need” (Clovek v tisni). Besides development work and other activities, the organization is trying to fight social exclusion in the growing “social ghettos” in the Czech Republic. Site of the workcamp is Usti nad Labem, a North-Bohemian city with severe social problems. There, People in Need is offering meaningful leisure-time activities for children and youth from underprivileged families and a centre for mothers with children.

Work: The volunteers will work in the socially excluded locality Predlice, a part of Usti nad Labem. The main work will be the preparation, implementation and coordination of creative leisure activities (especially cultural and sports activities) for children and youth from the locality. The volunteers will be in regular contact with the residents of Predlice. Meetings will be held at the community centre building in Predlice.

Study part: Lecture and seminar about social exclusion in the Czech Republic and about specific problems concerning work with youth from socially excluded areas.  At the beginning of the workcamp the volunteers will be in intensive contact with young people from the locality. During these meetings, with the help of translators, they will exchange their life stories among themselves in order to reach better mutual understanding.

Leisure time: Trips to the surrounding countryside (nature-parks, castles, close-by mountains and historical cities in the whole region). Visit concerts at local clubs. Visit of the county town Liberec.

Accommodation/Food: At the Drop-In Club “New World” in one socially excluded neighbourhood. The volunteers will prepare their own meals. Please bring a sleeping bag, a sleeping-mat, good boots for hiking, working clothing and raingear.

Location: Usti nad Labem

Note: A motivation letter sent with the application form is strictly required!

05/08 – 15/08
SOCI
Vols: 5 + 1 team leader
Age: 18+

Project: Prague 15 is a quarter of Prague, situated at the outskirts of the city. Here the “Centre for social care and nursing” offers social services to the elderly. It provides mobile care and stationary nursing services, where bed-ridden elderly or seniors with limited mobility can convalesce.

Work: The volunteers will work with the elderly and get a fixed part in their daily program. You will organize art workshops, leisure time activities and a garden party for them and assist with occupational therapy and outdoor-activities. The second kind of work will be manual and mainly consist of gardening, reparations, cleaning and help in the kitchen. You will also assist the nurses in taking care for the clients.

Study part: Learn more about social care in the Czech Republic.

Leisure time: The quarter has a lot of green areas and good facilities for sport, a large sport ground is right in the area you will sleep in (play football, beach-volleyball...) and you can swim in the direct neighbourhood. Besides you can visit Prague and see some of the great surroundings.

Accommodation/Food: In wooden cottages on a sports ground, about 10 minutes on foot from the social centre. The cottages are furnished basically, but you have beds to sleep in. Bring your sleeping bag. The toilets and showers are in an extra building. You will eat at the canteen of the social centre. The food will not be always suitable for vegetarians.

Location: Prague 15, a quarter of Prague.

Note: We prefer highly motivated volunteers. A relevant motivation letter needs to be handed in with the application form. Before arriving at the project, the volunteers will be required to submit a certificate of good conduct and a medical form stating they have no infectious diseases (medical form will be provided).

17/8 – 31/08
RENO/KIDS
Vols: 10 + 2 team leaders
Age: 18+

Project: The voluntary project is organized by the non-governmental organization “Centre for All”, which organizes free time activities and summer camps for children and youth with and without handicaps. The activities take place in a reconstructed barn with a pretty garden in a small village and in the centre of the organization in the town Nymburk.
For more information visit the organization’s website: www.centrumprovsechny.cz

Work: The volunteers will perform two different kinds of work. Firstly they will assist during a summer camp for youth with physical and/or mental disabilities, which takes place in the village of Jizbice (the topic of the camp is “journey around the world” and even though the clients are handicapped they are able to play and enjoy their stay). The volunteers will provide general assistance and organize activities for the clients. Secondly the volunteers will help to prepare the area of the Youth camp for the winter and to maintain the centre of the organization in Nymburk (gardening, cleaning after the summer season).

Study part: In the first week you will get a lecture on special education and a workshop on methods how to work with children and youth with special needs. You will also learn about the famous Czech author Bohumil Hrabal, who was born in Nymburk.

Leisure time: Tour around the spa town Poděbrady, excursions to the castle of Loučeň, to a local brewery and to the surrounding countryside are planned. We will also organize an intercultural day/evening in Nymburk.

Accommodation/Food: Part of the time you will be accommodated in modern tents or in a barn in Jizbice (the village where the Youth camp takes place). The rest of the time you will sleep in a house in Nymburk, that serves as a centre for the organization. Please bring a sleeping bag and a headlamp. You will help with preparing the food, so bring some interesting recipes with you.

Location: Nymburk and the village of Jizbice (8 kilometres from the town Nymburk).

Note: Smoking is forbidden while working with the children. Bring working clothes with you that can get dirty! You will need clothes for all kind of weather (raingear and waterproof working boots). A motivation letter sent with the application form is strictly required.