Vjf rothenklempenow 07/08-25/08/06 envi 18-26 10 vols

VJF 1.1. Rothenklempenow 07/08-25/08/06 ENVI 18-26 10 VOLS
Work: During our project you will have the possibility to learn about the history and culture of small villages in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Your main task will be working in the nature around the forests in this area. You will collect old wood and rubbish close to a lake. Another task will be to build a new fence around wild flower grassland. Your help will also be needed cleaning and protecting the nature.

Accommodation: In a house, 4-5 persons p. room

Language: English

Location: Rothenklempenow is a little village in the federal district Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in the northeast of Germany, not far from the Polish border (about 10 km). It is only 45 km to the Baltic Sea. The area is an agricultural one, surrounded by forests.

Terminal: Berlin or Hamburg

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: None

VJF 1.2. Wooster Teerofen; Dobbertin 21/08-02/09/06 ENVI 18-26 10 VOLS
Work: Your work will include different activities: cultivation of a biotope, planting work, clearance of a forest, mowing meadows and removing bushes in the area surrounding Karow. This is a special task for nature lovers.

Accommodation: You will live in big tents. In a separate building are a kitchen and two rooms for meetings.

Language: English

Location: The project is situated in the Nature Reserve „Nossentiner Schwinzer Heide“ situated between the two towns Goldberg and Guestrow in the Federal district of Mecklenburg, in the north east of Germany. This area is covered with forests and you can find a lot of beautiful lakes there. The next biggest village, 5 km away, is Krakow am See.

Terminal: Berlin or Hamburg

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: None

VJF 1.3. Schloss Dreiluetzow; Dreiluetzow 14/08-27/08/06 ENVI/ART 18-26

15 VOLS
Work: The task in this workcamp will be to care for the park behind the castle. We have been trying for several years to change the park back into an old English park as it was in the last centuries until it was destroyed.

The highlight of the workcamp will be the light feast on the last weekend. Here we need your help in preparing and hosting the feast. We would really appreciate, if you play an instrument, if you could it bring with you.

It is possible that your help will be needed to prepare and run another festival close to the castle.

Accommodation: The volunteers will be accommodated in a little building next to the castle.

Language: English

Location: The little village Dreiluetzow is situated in the federal state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Schloss Dreiluetzow is a 300 year old castle with a big park, which will be the workcamp place. The nearest town Wittenburg is about 4 km away and the closest big town is Schwerin about 25 km away. In the area around you’ll find mostly forests and farms.

Terminal: Berlin or Hamburg

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: Remote area

VJF 1.4. Steinreich; Kirch Grubenhagen 26/06-15/07/06 ENVI 18-26 14 VOLS
Work: The task in this workcamp will be to care for a chapel in a big castle park. The chapel belonged to the castle of Vollrathsruhe which is now unfortunately abandoned. You will clean the area around the chapel, remove weeds and bushes and build a path. Inside work will be painting and removing broken stones / tiles.

Another nice part of the working tasks will take place on a dry grass meadow. Here you will turn hay, collect it after some dry days and bring it in.

Optional work may take place in a “boulders park” which is very new.

Accommodation: The volunteers will be accommodated in a little building, the former vicarage. A bathroom and a kitchen are in the house.

Language: English

Location: The little village Kirch Grubenhagen is situated in the federal state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The nearest town Waren /Mueritz is about 20 km and the closest big town is Schwerin about 40 km away. In the area around you will find mostly forests and farms and lots of boulders.

Terminal: Berlin or Hamburg

Special Requirements:

Special Remarks: Remote area

VJF 1.5. Hohenbuessow 29/05 - 17/06/06 CONS 18-26 8 VOLS
Work: In this workcamp you will work on the ground of the provie Theater. Your tasks will be the building of an open-air kitchen out of wood (the work will be led by an artist) including a stove for baking out of clay.

Accommodation: In a house which is used for theatre performances. Also there will be a big Indian tent for sleeping and sitting around a fire place. Nearby at the field, you can build up your own tent. Washing places are outside.

Language: English

Location: Three hours away from Berlin (about 170 km), the next closest towns are Stralsund and Greifswald

Terminal: Berlin or Hamburg

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: Washing places are outside. There are no bathroom and shower.

VJF 1.6. Zarnekla (Vegetarian Camp) 24/07-12/08/06 ENVI 18-26 15 VOLS

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VJF 2.1. Goldnebelhof; Oranienburg 20/08 – 09/09/06 RENO 18-26 12 VOLS

Work: Your main work will be building of a little zoo. You will do fencing, removing weeds, repairing and painting of cages and roofs, maintaining of the ground.

Another task will be the construction of a playground area for children.

Accommodation: You will sleep separately in circus caravans.

Language: English

Location: The Goldnebelhof (golden fog farm) is a horse farm situated in the north of Berlin but is really hard to reach. A few villages are not far away but you have to be aware that Berlin can’t be visited too often!

Terminal: Berlin

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: Prepare yourself to live in a very isolated area. You will for sure also have the possibility to ride the horses.

VJF 2.2. Wulkow; Wulkow OT Lebus; 08/07 - 29/07/06 ENVI 18-26 15 VOLS
Work: There are a lot of people who are interested in ECOLOGICAL WORK in the eco-village. You will work in the following areas: Care of flower beds, Tree plantation, Castlepark, Herb garden, Village pond, Natural water purification system, Work in the Kindergarten/Nursery school, Clay construction. Coming up with your own ideas for the project and implementing them.

Accommodation: You will be accommodated in large, round tents next to the low-energy house called „Dome space“, which looks like a „UFO“.

Language: English

Location: Wulkow, a small village with 230 inhabitants, is situated in the east of Germany, about 3 km to the German-Polish border. Our project takes place about 80 kilometres from Berlin. The nearest town is Frankfurt (Oder).

Terminal: Berlin

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: None

VJF 2.3. Sachsenhausen 1; Oranienburg; 24/07 - 13/08/06 HIST/STUDY/RENO 18-26 15 VOLS
Work: The aims of this special project are:

- To bring together young people from different countries and deepening their understanding of history, enabling them to gain access to the period of National Socialism;

- To show how two different camps as the result of two dictatorships could exist at the same place;

- To go deeper into how the administration and extermination machine worked;

- To consider oneself as part of history and of today’s society, and taking responsibility for the future.

The participants of the workcamp will give their assistance to the memorial site especially in the form of manual work.

Although the main task will be studies of history, manual work like gardening, maintenance work and cleaning-up of specific areas of the memorial are planned. The study part will be the most important part of our project, though.

Accommodation: You will be accommodated in a youth hostel, 2 km away from the memorial centre.

Language: English

Location: 8 km in the north of Berlin

Terminal: Berlin

Special Requirements: For this project it is necessary to have good or very good English skills!!! Volunteers should be able to ride a bike, because different shorter and longer bicycle-tours are planned.

Special Remarks: None

VJF 2.4. Sachsenhausen 2; Oranienburg; 14/08 - 03/09/06 HIST/STUDY/RENO 18-26 15 VOLS
Work: The aims of this special project are:

- To bring together young people from different countries and deepening their understanding of history, enabling them to gain access to the period of National Socialism;

- To show how two different camps as the result of two dictatorships could exist at the same place;

- To go deeper into how the administration and extermination machine worked;

- To consider oneself as part of history and of today’s society, and taking responsibility for the future.

The participants of the workcamp will give their assistance to the memorial site especially in the form of manual work.

Although the main task will be studies of history, manual work like gardening, maintenance work and cleaning-up of specific areas of the memorial are planned. The study part will be the most important part of our project, though.

Accommodation: You will be accommodated in a youth hostel, 2 km away from the memorial centre.

Language: English

Location: 8 km in the north of Berlin

Terminal: Berlin

Special Requirements: For this project it is necessary to have good or very good English skills!!! Volunteers should be able to ride a bike, because different shorter and longer bicycle-tours are planned.

Special Remarks: None

VJF 2.5. Gut Gnewikow 25/08-15/09/06 ENVI 18-26 10 VOLS
Work: You will work in a big forest and in the surrounding areas of the old manor. The forest hasn’t been cleared for many years. It once belonged to the manor owner and was really beautiful. We need your help to get back its old beauty. You will also do other gardening work.

Another task will be cleaning rooms inside and helping in the service area.

Accommodation: You will live in rooms of 4-6 persons.

Language: English

Location: Gut Gnewikow is situated not far from Neuruppin, the birth town from Theodor Fontane, a well-known German writer who had a close relation to this area.

The place was in former time a big manor, close to a lake, a good opportunity for swimming and going by boat.

Terminal: Berlin

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: No vegetarians! You will not have the possibility to cook for yourself.

VJF 2.6. Potsdam 21/08-03/09/06 RENO/HIST 18-26 15 VOLS
Work: You will do different clearing and gardening work on the New Cemetery with its historical war and family graves. You will have the possibility to get a deeper knowledge about the history of Potsdam during the last centuries

Accommodation: In a house with beds, kitchen, showers etc.

Language: English

Location: Potsdam

Terminal: Berlin

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: None

VJF 2.7. Burg/ Spreewald 24/08 - 15/09/06 AGRI / ENVI 18-26 12 VOLS
Work: You will work about 6 hours a day in the special agricultural area of a biosphere reserve.

Some gardening work is planned i.e. working and harvesting in the herb garden.

Study: Environmental protection, special information on biosphere reserves

Accommodation: You will live in the bungalows of a youth hostel near Burg.

Language: English

Location: The project will take place in the famous area of Germany, called „Spreewald“. Burg is a small village with about 3500 German and Sorbish inhabitants.

Terminal: Berlin

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: None

VJF 2.8. Ravensbrueck; Fuerstenberg / Havel 07/08-19/08/06 HIST/STUDY 18-26

15 VOLS
Work: In this year the project in Ravensbrück will continue to connect practical work and study with youth and eye-witness meetings.

It is planned that the group will work in a small unknown special camp near the main area of the women’s concentration camp. There many different tasks to be done: cleaning the area of wild growing vegetation, archaeological work, and investigation work.

Study part: For one or two days (depending on volunteers interest) there are many possibilities to read about the history of the women’s concentration camp and about the background of fascism.

Accommodation: You will live in a youth hostel near the Ravensbrueck memorial. Shower and toilets are available.

Language: English

Location: Berlin

Terminal: Berlin

Special Requirements: For this Workcamp it is necessary to have (very) good English skills!

Special Remarks: None

VJF 2.9. Erholungszentrum Hoelzerner See; Gräbendorf 18/08 – 01/09/06 RENO/ENVI; 18-26 15 VOLS
Work: You will help with small renovation works on the area and inside.

Accommodation: You will live in guesthouse „Hasenhaus“ with 2-4 beds. All that you need is there: showers, bed sheets. Our accommodation is comfortable.

Language: English

Location: The Erholungszentrum Hoelzerner See is situated at the shore of Hoelzener See in Dubrow in the wildlife park of Dahme-Heideseen; just 15 minutes drive by bus from S-Bahn Koenigs Wusterhausen. From the city of Berlin, you will need about an hour by S-Bahn to Koenigs Wusterhausen.

Terminal: Berlin

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: None

VJF 2.10 Kindererholungsdorf Frauensee; Gräbendorf 04/09-18/09/06 RENO/ARTS 18-26 20 VOLS
Work: You will renovate the rooms of the buildings and you will also clean the surrounding areas of the houses. Another task will be to support the staff organizing the “Autumn Spectacle”, a party for children and their parents.

The volunteers are also asked to create a circus program for the children who are in the centre. It will be shown at the “Autumn Spectacle”.

Accommodation: You will live in bungalows of 2-6 persons. All that you need is there: showers, bed sheets, etc.

Language: English

Location: not far from Berlin in the middle of a wildlife park in Dahme-Heideseen, directly at the lake Frauensee

Terminal: Berlin

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: Please be aware that the last bus from Koenigs Wusterhausen leaves at 7.30 pm. There will be no possibility to go to the workcamp after 7.30 pm.! So, even if Berlin is close, be prepared to spend your evenings in a quiet area without cinema or pubs!!!

VJF 3.2.;Berlin in Spring 27/03 - 08/04/06 RENO 18-26 12 VOLS
Work: We are going to prepare our centre for the next season. There is a lot to do for you outside: painting, cleaning, gardening work. Another big task will take place inside: wallpapering and painting.

Accommodation: You will live in the centre in small houses.

Language: English

Location: A quiet place near a lake outside of Berlin

Terminal: Berlin

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: Bring warm clothes, gloves and a torch

VJF 3.3. Language Camp; Berlin 21/04 –30/04/06 LANG/RENO 12 VOLS
Work: You will do some easy jobs like cleaning the windows, removing old leaves and other work which is not very hard. Study part: German lessons and excursions to Berlin with a historic background.

Accommodation: You will live in the centre in small houses.

Language: German

Location: A quiet place near a lake outside of Berlin.

Terminal: Berlin

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: 100 Euro additional fee

VJF 3.4. Maxim; Berlin 07/07–22/07/06 RENO 18-26 15 VOLS
Work: You will help preparing the ground for a rainwater collecting tank. Tasks will be digging and installation work. Besides you will do various garden works.

Accommodation: Your quarters will be very modest, but of course there is a kitchen and bathrooms. However, the youth club is a nice place to work, live and party.

Language: English

Location: The MAXIM youth club is situated in the city district Weissensee in the north-eastern part of Berlin.

Terminal: Berlin

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: None

VJF 3.5. Berlin-Krimiweg 17/07 – 29/07/06 RENO / STUD 18-26 15 VOLS
Work: Your help is needed to make the “project and meeting centre” more attractive for all our visitors - children, teenagers, students, artists and different groups of adults. So the volunteers are asked to do repairing, renovating, cleaning and gardening work.

You will have an extensive study part. The volunteers from different countries will discuss problems of youth unemployment, their solutions and possibilities.

Accommodation: You will live in the centre in small houses.

Language: English

Location: A quiet place near a lake outside of Berlin

Terminal: Berlin

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: None

VJF 3.6. Berlin Marzahn 28/08- 15/09/06 AGRI/CULT 18-26 15 VOLS
Work: You will work on a farm. During the second part of the project your main job will be helping to prepare the annual traditional market in Marzahn.

Accommodation: You will be living in 4-bed-rooms in a big house similar to a dormitory for students in the new housing estate.

Language: English

Location: Your project will take place in a new housing estate of the eastern part of Berlin.

Terminal: Berlin

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: None

VJF 3.7. Jazz&World Music; Berlin 21/07-13/08/06 ART 18-26 15 PART.
The project: The idea of the project is to unite various kinds of traditional folk and world music with elements of jazz. You will form bands with different own styles. At the end of the project the bands will have the possibility to record their programmes and to play four concerts at well-known clubs in Berlin.

Accommodation: Your accommodation will be very modest, but of course there is a kitchen and bathrooms.

Language: German and English

Location: The Youth club “Naturschutzstation” is situated in the city district of Weissensee in the northeastern part of Berlin.

Terminal: Berlin

Special Requirements: You should play an instrument and be interested in folk, jazz and world music.

Write a motivation letter as your application.

Special Remarks: If it’s possible bring your instrument

VJF 4.1. Elben; Doessel 28/07 - 12/08/06 RENO 18-26 12 VOLS
Work: The group will be in charge of the preservation of a historical house.

Accommodation: In a house on mattresses or in tents, depending on the weather.

Language: German

Location: In a village 25 km from Halle/Saale.

Terminal: Leipzig/Halle

Special Requirements: Participants should be able to ride a bike, because it takes a 13km ride to work each day.

Special Remarks: None

VJF 4.2. Schloss Altenhausen 31/07 – 19/08/06 ENVI 18-26 15 VOLS
Work: Your help will be needed to clean up the surrounding of the castle. Your tasks will include the maintenance of an open space on the area of the castle, the building of new paths, the maintenance of the park. If the weather will be rainy you will do renovation work in a house.

Accommodation: You will live in rooms for up to 8 persons.

Language: English

Location: Your accommodation and work place will be the castle of Altenhausen, a beautiful building in the middle of nowhere.

Terminal: Halle/Leipzig

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: Be prepared to live in an isolated area.

VJF 4.3. Rackith ENVI/CONS RENO 18-26 10 VOLS
Work: An everyday task for some of the group will be helping with rabbits and sheep farming. Please note that they do not have horses! You have to be prepared to start your work at 7 a.m.!

You will be helping to harvest oats and maybe help to bring in hay. On some parts of the field this also means removing bushes and use them to make chopped wood for the winter.

Works on the farm will be preparing a compost and removing and establishing a biological purification system of sewage including removing and planting bushes and flowers. A summer party will take place on the last weekend and your help will be needed to prepare and run it.

In case of bad weather you will work inside of the former mill. You will renovate the windows, which means replacing paint, putty and broken windows. You will be asked to build a false ceiling.

Study part:
You will have the opportunity to learn more about ecological farming and alternative and sustainable energies. Please be prepared to talk about the ecological situation in your country.

Accommodation: You will live in rooms for several people.

Language: English

Location: The village of Rackith is situated some kilometres from Lutherstadt Wittenberg which is famous e.g. for the Reformator Martin Luther or the Cranach brothers.

Terminal: Halle/Leipzig

Special Requirements: You should be able to ride a bike.

Special Remarks: This workcamps is not suitable for persons suffering from an allergy! Isolated area!

VJF 5.1. Gut Gamig; Dohna/Gamig 17/07 - 05/08/06 AGRI /MENT 18-26 12 VOLS
Work: Volunteers are asked to do different gardening work and help in the agricultural activities such as apple harvesting and cleaning and harvesting of vegetables and fruits. Sometimes you will work alongside the patients.

Accommodation: You will live in Gamig Castle in very simple conditions.

Language: English

Location: Close to Dresden

Terminal: Halle/Leipzig

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: Remote area

VJF 5.2. Flowerpowerfestival; Freiberg 03/08 – 24/08/06 FEST 18-26 15 VOLS
Work: The Flower Power Festival has run for several years now. The idea of the festival weekend is “3 days of laugh, dance and mutual understanding” during 11-13/08/06. About 40 German and international bands and artists play Hippie, Rock, Reggae, Goa and World music. Additionally, plenty of attractions can be found i.e.: bazaar, workshops, fire-shows, performances and drum sessions.

Your help will be needed before, during and after the festival.

Before: You will help to decorate the festival area, the interior of the event tents and build different constructions for the festival.

During: Help will be needed in the kids area (playing and working with children), in co-ordinating the arriving cars and catering for the artists backstage. There will be the possibility to perform in a show (theatre, music, whatever) organised and performed by the workcamp participants.

After: You will help to remove all decoration and clean up the area.

You see, a lot of work is waiting for you but also lots of fun!!!!

During the last week (18–24/08/06) you will travel through Saxony (federal state) with the whole group.

Accommodation: Very basic, on the festival ground in a big tent

Language: English

Location: Freiberg is a small university town with about 50 000 inhabitants, in the Southeast of Germany, not far from Dresden.

Terminal: Halle/Leipzig

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: None

VJF 6.1. Jena 28/08 - 10/09/06 ENVI 18-26 12 VOLS
Work: The volunteers will help the environmentally engaged organisation “Berggesellschaften” and the local foresters with the renovation and construction of several recreation facilities in the Jena-forest. It is planned to paint small wooden huts, to repair trails, to cut small trees and to renovate signs on the educational way through the forest. Other work is also possible.

Accommodation: In an isolated hostel on a hill in the Western part of Jena.

Language: English

Location: Jena

Terminal: Halle/Leipzig

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: No smoking during the entire project!

VJF 6.2. Weisbach; Weisbach/Thueringen 14/07 - 31/07/06 ARCH 18-26 8 VOLS
Work: The volunteers are asked to help with the excavation work in the fortress with the possibility of doing drawings or helping with the presentation of an exhibition.

Accommodation: You will live in a community house.

Language: English

Location: Weisbach is a small village in the Thuringian mountains.

Terminal: Halle/Leipzig or Frankfurt/Main

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: Isolated area

VJF 6.3. Brandenstein 31/07 - 12/08/06 ENVI 18-26 8 VOLS
Work: The volunteers are asked to do environmental works around the castle, like building and repairing a wall made of rough stones, cleaning and building of paths around the castle. In case of bad weather you will help to redevelop the windows of the castle or paint inside of it.

Accommodation: You will live in the former shepherd’s house. A shower and a toilet are available in the house.

Language: English

Location: Brandenstein is a small village in the Thuringian Mountains

Terminal: Halle/Leipzig

Special Requirements: None

Special Remarks: Isolated area

VJF 6.4. Ilmenau 11/08-01/09 ENVI/RENO 18-26 20 VOLS

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