Jeden druhému

30/05 – 12/06
AGRI/RENO
Vols: 10+2
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. 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 care for a garden. Secondly, they will maintain the area of the community and do some minor construction and renovation works (f.e. building a wall, cleaning, cutting grass, reparations, embellishments). 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 sight of the former concentration camp for Jews – the Terezin Ghetto. Workshops on different handicraft techniques will be organized for you.

Leisure time: You can make trips to the surrounding towns, go hiking in the nearby hills, swim in the river just behind the centre, have boat trips, do sport activities, visit cultural events in the near by cities...

Accommodation/Food: In a big hall on mattresses. Bring a sleeping bag. One shower with hot water will be available. The volunteers will prepare their meals on their own.

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

Note: As you will stay in a community for people with mental heath 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

09/07 – 28/07
AGRI/RENO
Vols: 10+2
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. 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 (f.e. planting, watering, weeding, harvesting potatoes…) and care for a garden. Secondly they will maintain the area of the community and do some minor construction and renovation works (f.e. building a wall, cleaning, cutting grass). 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 sight of the former concentration camp for Jews – the Terezin Ghetto. Workshops on different handicraft techniques will be organized for you.

Leisure time: You can make trips to the surrounding towns, go hiking in the nearby hills, swim in the river just behind the centre, have boat trips, do sport activities, visit cultural events in the near by cities…and much more!

Accommodation/Food: In a big hall on mattresses. Bring a sleeping bag. One shower with hot water will be available. The volunteers will prepare their meals on their own.

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

Note: As you will stay in a community for people with mental heath issues, please note that 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

10/07 – 23/07
KIDS/TEACH
Vols: 10+2
Age: 18+

Project: The project is focused on teaching English at primary and secondary schools in different villages around the Moravian village of Skalice nad Svitavou. The aim of the project is to support and motivate Czech pupils to study foreign languages by making those languages more attractive to them. The pupils will be able to fix their current knowledge with this interactive method, making them feel more self-secure actively using the language in conversations.

Work: The volunteers will give unconventional English lessons to schoolchildren. The lessons should be creative and interactive, using games, competitions, outdoor-activities and conversation as methods. The volunteers will teach small groups of children and get the support of a Czech teacher.

Study part: On the last day all kids will get together for a celebration - the volunteers will prepare games and sport competitions, a present their cultures and cook some typical food for them. 

Leisure time: The nearest town Boskovice (11000 inhabitants) is located about 4 km from Skalice nad Svitavou. There are two castles, a 'western city', sport facilities and the old Jewish quarter with a Synagogue. Skalice nad Svitavou is surrounded by very nice countryside.

Accommodation/Food: In a mill, you will cook together from common resources. Take a sleeping bag!

Location: Skalice nad Svitavou, (about 35 km north from Brno, the capital city of Moravia)

Note: Previous experience in working with children is highly recommended. The volunteers must submit a certificate of good conduct, a motivation letter sent with the application form and a medical report, stating they have no infectious diseases.

24/07 - 06/08
RENO
Vols: 5+5+1
Age: 18+

Project: The Therapeutic Centre “Ledovec” (“Iceberg”) for people with psychiatric diseases or mental handicaps started in 2001 as the main project of Ledovec, o.s. (NGO Iceberg). The centre works as a family therapeutic community based on the principle of “mutual social rehabilitation” - a method, which changes not only the attitude of the clients towards the “outer world” but also the attitude of the wide public towards people with special needs. Since 2002 the centre organizes a voluntary project where volunteers from Czech and from abroad work together with the centre’s therapists (and sometimes also clients) to improve the area of an old parish house in the village Ledce where the centre is situated.

Work: Construction and renovation work (small repairing jobs in our barns, decorating corridors in the main house), cleaning (sorting out stuff we have collected in our barns), and garden work (fences for the sheep, harvesting, haymaking etc.). Take working clothes and working boots.

Study part: The centre’s therapeutic workshops will be open for you (weaving, pottery, candle workshop).

Leisure time: During your stay Ledovec organizes the “Traditional Fair Celebration” where different handcrafts are presented and various kinds of traditional fair entertainment will be seen. The centre will also organize trips with their own minibus, often to Plzen - a town famous for its traditional beer. The centre offers their volunteers two days off for a trip to Prague and is ready to offer the cheapest (maybe free) accommodation possible there.

Accommodation/Food: In the main building in beds or on mattresses; bring a sleeping bag. A shower is available. You will receive home made food three times a day in the centre (vegetarian dishes available). The volunteers have the option to prepare their meals on their own.

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 center 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
center and 5 international volunteers that will be placed by INEX-SDA.

15/08 – 04/09
AGRI/RENO
Vols: 10+2
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. 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 (f.e. weeding, harvesting, processing vegetables, storing pumpkins). Secondly they will some minor construction and maintenance works (in houses and outside). 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 sight of the former concentration camp for Jews – the Terezin Ghetto. Workshops on different handicraft techniques will be organized for you.

Leisure time: You can make trips to the surrounding towns, go hiking in the nearby hills, swim in the river just behind the centre, have boat trips, do sport activities, visit cultural events in the near by cities…

Accommodation/Food: The volunteers will sleep in a big hall on mattresses. Bring a sleeping bag. One shower with hot water will be available. The volunteers will prepare their meals on their
own. Bring your local recipes!

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

Note: As you will stay in a community for people with mental heath issues, please note that 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.

01/07 – 15/07
KIDS/RENO
Vols: 10+2
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.

Work: The volunteers will perform two different kinds of work: Firstly they will work with children and youth with autism and other disabilities (general assistance, organization of activities for the children, going with them on walks outside the centre etc.). The children will arrive at the second week of the project. Secondly the group will help with do practical manual tasks indoors and outdoors: gardening, putting up tents and teepees, prepare the barn for the arrival of the children (moving furniture, cleaning, decorating, creating games and activities). Bring clothes with you that can get dirty! You will need clothes for all kind of weather (raingear and waterproof working boots). 

Study part: Excursions to castles, visit an artist blacksmith and a school for children with handicaps and special needs. 

Leisure time: Visit the spa town Podebrady, trips to the surrounding countryside, swimming.

Accommodation/Food: Basic accommodation in tents or in a barn. Please bring a sleeping bag.  You will help with preparing the food.

Location: Village of Jizbice, 7 kilometres from the town Nymburk.

Notes: Smoking is forbidden while working with the children. A motivation letter sent with the application form is strictly required.

11/07 – 23/07
SOCI/RENO
Vols: 10+2
Age: 18+

Project: 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: You will work in two different socially excluded communities in Usti nad Labem: in a centre for mothers with children (community Predlice) and the Drop-In Club “New World” you stay at (community Krásné Brezno). About 70% of your work will consist of organizing activities for the local population, mainly free time activities for kids (making music, painting, sport, games…) and activities concerning intercultural exchange. 30% of the work will be the reconstruction of the Drop-In Club and the centre for mothers with children.

Study part: Lecture and seminar about social exclusion in the Czech Republic and about specific problems concerning work with youth from socially excluded areas. 

Leisure time: Trips to the surrounding countryside (nature-parks, castles, close-by mountains and historical cities). Visit concerts and tea-clubs.

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

Location: Usti nad Labem

Note: A motivation letter sent with the application form is strictly required! Special fee 8 EUR to be paid on arrival (The money directly supports your stay at the project).

14/08 – 24/08
SOCI
Vols: 5+1
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 at the areal you are sleeping at (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 by foot from the social centre. The cottages are furnished very 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 with experiences in social care. Volunteers will be required to submit a certificate of good conduct, a medical note stating they have no infectious diseases and a relevant motivation letter with the application form.

31/8 – 16/09
RENO/KIDS
Vols: 10+2
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 project takes place in the centre of the organization in the small town Nymburk.

Work: Help to maintain the centre of the organization. The work will be outside (gardening) and in the building (cleaning after the summer season, preparing the house for the school year 2011/2012). Besides the volunteers will assist during activities with small and handicapped children (workshops, trips) and help at a public beneficial event and a celebration (workshops, preparations, decorations). Bring working clothes that can get dirty!

Study part: Excursions to a school for children with handicaps and special needs and to the medieval village of Ostra.

Leisure time: Tour around the spa town Podebrady, trip to Prague, intercultural day/evening in Nymburk.

Accommodation/Food: In the international scouts centre in Nymburk on mattresses – bring your own sleeping bag! The volunteers will prepare their own meals.  

Location: Nymburk

Note: Smoking is forbidden while working with the children. A motivation letter sent with the application form is strictly required.