ALEMANIA IJGD 2008

JUNIO-JULIO

AGOSTO-SEPTIEMBRE-OCTUBRE

Bi - and Tri - National Workcamps

ijgd 8368      Dudenhofen      I5.07.08-27.07.08      TRI / AGRI  12 vols. F, ES, D
Project: In the villages of Dudenhofen, Hanhofen and Harthausen you help to renovate children's playgrounds. Additionally, we would like to create an attractive natural park for all generations in Dudenhofen.
Work: You’ll have a whole range of gardening and landscaping work to do: creating paths, work in plantation, painting, building information boards and if possible, build a waterway. During you free-time, you can ride the bicycle and visit the city Speyer which is close. Your creativity and own suggestions are welcome.
Catering: Done by the group
Accommodation: You’ll stay in different rooms of a gymnasium.
Location: Rhineland-Palatinate; Dudenhofen is 5 km west of Speyer, 30 km from Heidelberg and Mannheim, 50 km from Karlsruhe and 100 km from Strasbourg (France).
There are many leisure opportunities close-by, and you could visit Heidelberg, Mannheim, Karlsruhe and the famous river Rhine. In order to be able to visit all those places, a minibus will be at your disposal (sponsored by the German-French Youth Office).
Train -station: Speyer
Airport: Frankfurt a. M.
NOTE: This workcamp is for participants from Spain, France and Germany only.

ijgd 8462      Barleben      12.07.08-02.08.08      TRI / CONS  16 vols. ES, PL, DE
Project: For three years now, Workcamp-groups have participated in the “IDOL”-project, which is related to “domestic pets”. The aim of this project is to create an area, where rural and technical traditions of the village and the surrounding can be rebuilt. This is in order to safeguard certain customs, bringing locals and visitors closer to each other. Another focus of this project is old “pet-races” and the construction of an education and meeting centre, where a variety of events are going to take place. In the initial construction phase your support is very welcomed. Primary work will include the reconstruction of hedges, stone walls, path construction and the creation of a planned environmental sanctuary (a Biotope).
Accommodation: In the village’s elementary school.
Catering: Done by the group
Location: Saxony-Anhalt. There are a lot of free-time-activities in the surrounding area. There’s a skate park, a football and basketball ground and in the centre “US-Play” is a bowling centre and a cinema. The biggest Linden-forest in Europe and the so-called “water street cross” with the “Trog-Bridge” over the river Elbe are also worth a visit.
Train-station: Barleben
Airport: Berlin
Age: 16-26
Note: This camp is supported by the German-Polish Youth-Organisation

ijgd 8373      Lindlar      19.07.08 – 10.08.08      TRI / ARCH  15 vols. ES, PL DE
Project: The regional authority, “Rhineland”, has built the open air museum for Ecology, Rural Crafts and Culture. Typical houses and farms from the region are displayed; traditional farming is carried out, providing an insight into historical life styles.
Work: You will work in the gardens and fields of these historical farms, using methods applied hundreds of years ago.
Accommodation: In an outbuilding of “Heiligenhoven” Castle, the museum’s administrative centre
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: North-Rhine Westphalia; “Lindlar” is situated in a region known as “Bergisches Land” (meaning hilly land) 35 km north-east of Cologne and 10 km west of Gummersbach.
Train-station: Engelskirchen
Airport: Cologne/Bonn
Age: 16-26
Note: This camp is supported by the German-Polish Youth organisation

ijgd 8110      Kuhhorst      26.07.08–17.08.08      TRI / CONS  12 vols. F, ES, D
Project: In Kuhhorst you have the opportunity to learn about life and work in a rural community. Run along holistic and ecological guidelines, this organic farm will teach you about a way of life where animals and humans live in close harmony. Within the farm you will find a goat, 5 donkeys, 100 pigs, 200 cows, 600 ducks and 800 geese, which are being looked after humanely, as truly domestic animals. These animals are being cared for in co-operation with people with mental disabilities. In addition to potato and vegetable crops, the village has a dairy, a pasta production plant and farm shop. In summer community life is centred on this beautiful farmyard.
Work: This year we would like to continue the construction and renovation of a hog for pigs. Furthermore, you will work in green houses; gardening and doing other maintenance work.
Accommodation: Accommodation will be basic and rustic, within a former barn.
Catering: Lunch will be provided but other meals have to be prepared by the group. Organic milk and organic products for breakfast and dinner can be purchased at the farm shop.
Location: Brandenburg; about 35 km north-west from Berlin, 50km from Potsdam. Kuhhorst offers lots of open countryside surrounded by forests and brooks, all of it accessible by either bicycle or on foot. A special attraction in the summer is the large number of visiting storks. Berlin's thriving city limits are only about 30 km away and you are welcome to organise your own entertainment.
Train-station: Nauen
Airport: Berlin
Age: 16 - 26
Note: For volunteers from Spain, France and Germany only.

ijgd 8461      Beichlingen      02.08.08 – 23.08.08      TRI / RENO  18 vols. ES, PL, D
Project: The national association of Youth Hostels has taken over the running of a new facility, the “Beichlingen Children and Youth Village”. It offers exiting programmes for children and young people under the name: “Adventure, Play & Fun”.
Work: As part of the general remodelling and image building effort of this Youth Hostel, the plan for this summer includes work on the outside grounds, as well as extensive renovation work of the accommodation. Furthermore, you will work in the herb gardens and the animal park. We would like you to help with the “History Experience” which is offered by the YHA (Youth Hostel Association) as part of their educational programme.
Accommodation: You’ll stay in accommodation at the Children’s and Young People’s Village.
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Thuringia. The beautiful area, with extensive grounds, numerous leisure facilities such as a swimming pool, volleyball and basketball courts and a sauna, all come together to offer you an interesting, sporty and relaxing experience in your free time. The closest city is “Erfurt”, the capital of the federal state of Thuringia, and Weimar, which is historically linked to Goethe and Schiller, and is easy to reach - as is the Kyffhaeuser and the Barbarossa cave and many more places of historical interest. Distance to Weimar 30 km, to Erfurt 40 km, to Leipzig 100 km.
Train-station: Koelleda or Soemmerda
Airport: Leipzig
Age: 16 -26
Note: This workcamp is for participants from Germany, Poland and Spain only.

ijgd 8112      Vierraden      02.08.08 – 24.08.08      TRI / RENO  15 vols. ES, DE, PL
Project: The association “Kunstbauwerk e.V.” (www.kunstbauwerk.de) is in charge of the renovation of the former tobacco factory at Vierraden dating from 1880. In order to create an interesting contrast, they would like to introduce modern works of art. Their plan for this summer is to transform the site into a lively art exhibition centre, which attracts artists as well as those interested in arts. We must add that the association’s name (an amalgamation of the words “art”, “building” and “works”) has previously lead to some false expectations for some participants concerning the tasks at hand. To avoid any confusion, we have to inform you that you will only be involved in renovation and construction work. Until 1990, both the factory building and the owner’s mansion have been occupied by a number of different companies, and, as a result, both buildings have been dramatically altered.
Work: We would like your help with the restoration of the factory building to its original design. Local craftsmen will work with you to clear and demolish old storage sheds and restore original boundaries. We would also like you to help with the creation of a parking area and the maintenance of the factory’s grounds. During the second half of the camp, we would like you to work in cooperation with our project partner, the national park “Unteres Odertal”, in both the Polish and the German areas of this international park. Your task will be to create a wildflower meadow, construct information boards and renovate paths. On August 19th, you are invited to the annual tobacco flower festival which is run by local associations. Vierraden is a small village in close proximity to the “Unteres Odertal” National Park, which you might like to explore by bike or on foot. You can also organise trips to the Uckermark region or to Stettin (50 km) and Berlin (100 km).
Accommodation: In the owner’s mansion on-site
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: 100 km north-east of Berlin in Brandenburg.
Train-station: Schwedt
Airport: Berlin
Age: 16-26
Note: For volunteers from Poland, Spain and Germany only.

ijgd 8316      Babenhausen      16.08.08 – 06.08.08      TRI / MANU  15 vols. FR, ES, DE
Project & work: The beautiful village of Babenhausen is close to Memmingen and Ulm, not far from the Bavarian Alps. Under the guidance of an environment-educationist from the youth-Education-venue “Babenhausen” and the support of local workers, you will be involved with different tasks, such as taking care of ecological sanctuaries (Biotopes), rebuilt natural watercourses and help enlarging the garden of senses belonging to the youth centre. You will be introduced to the topic of amphibian life and the importance of water protection; you will be working artistically and creatively. In your free time you can make trips to Lake Constance, to Munich, to Ulm, to Kempten, to Augsburg, or undertake one of the many hiking-tours offered in the Alps. If the weather is good, you can go swimming in the lake close-by. In order for you to discover the region, you can borrow a bicycle.
Accommodation: Shared room in a house, close to the lake.
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Bavaria; 120km away from Munich, 40km from Ulm, 60km from Kempten and 90km from Lake Constance.
Train-station: Sontheim (Schwab)
Airport: Munich
Age: 16-26
Note: This camp is supported by the German-French youth-organisation

ijgd 8116      Felixsee-Bohsdorf      17.08.08 – 05.09.08      TRI / CONS  12 vols. ES, DE, PL
Project: The “Social-Pedagogical-Institute” in Brandenburg has a leisure-centre named “Bergschloesschen” in the city of Spremberg and a place for young people to meet in the community Felixsee. The meeting-place is in a well wooded, idyllic site close to Lake Felixsee, with a look out. Youth-groups will find ideal conditions to spend their free time with sports, games and other outdoor activities.
Work: You can help with the improvement of the bungalows and with the construction of playground, sports equipment and roofing for bicycles. You will meet young people from the region and arrange a vacation day for kids. You’re ideas are welcome!
Accommodation: Wooden Bungalows.
Catering: Done by the group.
Camping site: You can go swimming in the lake Felixsee, play beach-volleyball or table tennis, use the open-air skittle-alley and the Barbeque. In the close surroundings, there are stables, and bicycle-paths. You can bring your own skates. Bicycles are provided. In the city of Spremberg are a lot of things to do: For example, there’s a water park, cinema, bowling centre, a disco, half-pipe, internet-café or a youth-media-centre in the “Bergschloesschen”. Close to the Spremberg Dam there is a high-rope-course, you can rent boats, and play miniature golf.
Location: Federal State Brandenburg; approximately 120km from Berlin and 20km to Cottbus; between Spremberg and Felix Lake there’s a bus connection.
Train-station: Spremberg
Airport: Berlin
Age: 16-26
Note: Knowledge of German or English language is required. You will arrive on Sunday and depart on Friday. Participants under the age of 18 require swimming-permission from their parents. This camp is supported by the German-Polish youth-organisation.

ijgd 8243      Kieler Foerde      30.08.08 – 20.09.08      TRI / MANU  15 vols. ES, DE, PL
Project: Nearby the Kieler Foerde on the coast of the Baltic Sea, the camping club “Brahmsee e.V.” organises the youth-education-venue “Kahlenberg”. The club has taken charge of it for 3 years and now requires your help with the beautification of the facilities. A variety of outdoor tasks, are waiting for you. If it gets too hot during the work you can cool down in the Baltic Sea. As well as your hard work, we also need your creativity, for example in the construction of recovery-points in the area. Also planned are some works in the second building of the club close to the Brahm Lake.
Accommodation: You will be accommodated in one of the houses of the youth-hostel “Kahlenberg”, close to the Baltic Sea.
Catering: During the week, food will be provided by the youth hostel, on weekends the group will cook for themselves.
Location: Lower Saxony. You’ll work and live in the outskirts of Kiel, approx. 13km from the centre. The city (home to 200,000 inhabitants) provides many leisure time activities: bars, cinemas, museums, shopping, and so on. On weekends you can take trips to Hamburg and to other cities, or just relax on the beach.
Train-station: Kiel
Airport: Hamburg
Age: 16-26
Note: This camp is supported by the German-Polish youth-organisation.

Archaeology, cultural - historical camp

ijgd 8115      Brandenburg an der Havel      19.07.08 – 10.08.08      ARCH      15 vols.
Project: The city of Brandenburg, which is over thousand years old, nearby the river Havel, is one of the oldest German cities east of the river Elbe and serves, with its many historical buildings and museums, as documentation for the history of the country.
In this beautiful city you have access to a huge amount of leisure time activities. You can also visit a variety of culture establishments or travel to Germany’s capital Berlin. The city’s museum welcomes your help with the garden-works on plenty memorial places. You will be offered accompanied sightseeing, through which you will have an extensive insight in the history of city. Also you will get to know many locals. On this occasion you will have the opportunity to meet teenagers from Zgierz (Poland) and from Brandenburg (Germany).
Accommodation: You’ll stay in the classrooms of the “von-Saldern-Gymnasium”.
The Cafeteria, will work as a kitchen. The common-room, toilets and showers of the sports-hall are at your disposal.
Catering: Done by the group
Location: Federal State of Brandenburg. “Brandenburg an der Havel” is 40km western of the capital Berlin.
Train-station: Brandenburg an der Havel     
Airport: Berlin
Age: 16-26

ijgd  8104      Berlin-Reinickendorf II      19.07.07 – 10.08.08      ARCH      15 vols.
Project: On the regional graveyard “Freiheitsweg” north of Berlin, you will help restoring the graves of victims of war. These victims are both German and non-German soldiers and civilians.
Work: Your task will be to transport and clean gravestones. In addition you will plant new grass.
Accommodation: Within the scouts’ adventure-playground, in tents and wagons. A nearby house with a kitchen, living-room and sanitation is open for you.
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Federal State of Brandenburg. The adventure-playground is located on a little green island in the middle of Berlin. There are a lot of different possibilities (e.g. archery). Guitars are provided, so the lunch/ dinner campfire will be very nice. It’s easy to reach Berlin using public transport. Tickets are provided.
Train-station: Berlin Hauptbahnhof / central station
Airport: Berlin
Age: 18-26
NOTE: Knowledge of German or English language is required.

ijgd 8320      Bretten      26.07.08 – 16.08.08      ARCH      12 vols.
Project: You’ll help the city of Bretten with some gardening work around an old castle. The historical meaning of this castle in the 11th and 13th century of interest to the population and will be revaluated. With professional guidance you will construct a paved area. An already existing stone-bench will be integrated in the composition with your help. Additionally, you will help placing information boards for visitors and hikers to give them an historical overview over the location and the remains of the Castle.
Accommodation: in a school in Bretten
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Bretten, in the region of Kraichgau, in the federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, offers with its historical city-core and the variety of cultural offers many opportunities to develop the city, its people and the surroundings. The cities of Karlsruhe, Heidelberg and Stuttgart are nearby and always worth a visit. Distance: 60km from Stuttgart, 25km from Karlsruhe.
Train-station: Bretten
Airport: Stuttgart
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8103      Berlin Reinickendorf I      09.08.08 – 31.08.08      ARCH      15 vols.
Project: On the regional graveyard “Humboldtstrasse” in the north of Berlin you help restoring the graves of victims of war. The victims are German and non-German soldiers alike and civilians.
Work: Your task is to transport old stones and to clean the gravestones. In addition you got to plant new grass.
Accommodation: Youth centre “PallasT” at Berlin-Schoeneberg.
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Berlin-Schoeneberg is located in central Berlin. The sights are easy to reach by foot or by public transport. Berlin’s nightlife is also easy to explore. The ticket for public transports is provided.
Train-station: Berlin Hauptbahnhof/ central station
Airport: Berlin
Age: 18-26
NOTE: knowledge of German or English language is required.

ijgd 8372      Titz      30.08.08 – 20.09.08      ARCH      15 vols.
Project: How did our ancestors live 2500 years ago? On the traces of the settlers of the Iron Age, archaeologists from the Rhineland landscape association are building a court in Titz, where one can find the outpost of the Rhenish agency for the preservation of ground monuments. Under professional guidance you’ll build an original house with authentic tools. This will give you an impression of life back then. You’ll work with logs and erect walls. Also you will be making a roof out of Thatch.
In addition you will produce tools, crockery and other things of everyday-life in the Iron Age. There will be a little study, in which you’ll learn about the methods of finding ancient locations and the accomplishment of archaeological excavations.
Accommodation: In a hall on the area of the outpost in Titz-Hoellen, close to the Iron-Age-court.
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: North Rhine Westphalia. Titz is placed in the “city triangle” of Cologne (40km), Duesseldorf (40km) and Aix-la-Chapelle (40km). There are many possibilities for trips to the Lower Rhine, to Belgium and to the Netherlands.
Train-station: Dueren
Airport: Cologne/Bonn
Age16-26

Nature & Environment

ijgd 8322      Regensburg      21.06.08 – 12.07.08      ENVI/ART    15 vols.
Project: In the beautiful city of Regensburg, you will be on the traces of the Celts, the Romans and ancient Bavarian gardeners. The project can be found on the colonies of these tribes, where a new construction-area is being built.
Work: You’ll support the creation of a garden for an ancient Bavarian house, which is more than 2000 years old. You can help at the construction of little theme-parks, which deal with the long history of the area. Furthermore, you’ll help at the implementation of an art-project. Also you can experience how the beaver acts as a landscape-former, forming the ambiance to nearby Lakeland.
Accommodation: The classrooms of a new school
Catering: Done by the group
Location: Bavaria; 120km north of Munich, 100km south of Nuremberg, 200km to Prague. Regensburg, with its 152,000 inhabitants is situated on the northern most point of the River Danube. In the past year the medieval Old Town with many monuments, has become an UNESCO-World-culture-heir. On the border of the Bavarian Forest, Regensburg has a great natural environment, with open air baths, lakes, and a pulsing life with many leisure time possibilities. A van will be provided.
Train-station: Regensburg
Airport: Munich
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8310      Frittlingen      05.07.08 – 26.07.08      ENVI      16 vols.
Project: For the seventh time now in this beautiful camp in Frittlingen there will be nature conservation along the creeks and in the forest. This is in cooperation with the agency for nature conservation, the water department and the local forest management. You can help in different ways, for example by cleaning water, cutting grooves, and take care of young trees as well as setting nature-stones in “biotopes”. You will experience many interesting things about nature conservation.
Accommodation: The fire brigade’s house in Frittlingen.
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Frittlingen is placed in Baden-Wuerttemberg, 100km south of Stuttgart, 50km in the north of the Lake Constance, 15km to Rottweil. It is a little village with 2200 inhabitants, and is found at the feet of the Swabian Mountains in a very nice area. In your free-time, you can make trips to Stuttgart, Rottweil, to Lake Constance or to the Swabian Mountains. There are a lot of possibilities for contact to the youth in the village
Train-station: Rottweil
Airport: Stuttgart
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8204      Hameln      05.07.08 – 26.07.08      ENVI      13 vols.
Project: Last year, the ‘Kyrill’ storm did a lot of damage to the forests in Northern Germany. The cleaning efforts are still taking place. In the area of the Lower Saxony forestry office, the consequential damage is still visual. You’ll help to cut free the new planted trees, as they need space and light to grow. Furthermore, you will remake paths, build or repair recovery places and help at other nature conservation works. You’ll work in changing little groups and will have the possibility to develop nature and to collect background-information about nature conservation and the forest as a habitat, together with the employees of the forestry office.
Accommodation: In the municipality-centre “Hohes Feld” of the Martin-Luther-commune in Hameln (www.martin-luther-gemeinde-hameln.de)
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Hameln in Lower Saxony, called the “rat-catcher-city”, welcomes you. Its historical old city, different museums, the “adventure-world Renaissance”, and a show-glassblowing offer many possibilities for cultural experiences or to go shopping.
Train-station: Hameln
Airport: Hanover
Age: 16-26
NOTE: you should bring weather-proof clothes and hiking shoes.

ijgd 8362      Vallendar      05.07.08 – 26.07.08      ENVI      15 vols.
Project: Vallendar is close to the Rhine, close to historical castles and fortresses. On the city’s graveyard, there is a large amount of war graves (around 100). Your task will be to rearrange these war graves to give special remembrance to the victims of war whilst being a warning for future generations. You will help transport stones and to clean the gravestones as well as planting new grass.
Accommodation: An elementary school
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Vallendar is a city 6 Km north of Koblenz. There are a lot of free-time possibilities like travelling to the Rhine or the Mosel. In Vallendar there are two swimming pools and you can play miniature golf.
Train-station: Vallendar
Airport: Frankfurt a. M.
Age: 16-26

 ijgd 8117      Potsdam-Sanssouci      07.07.08 – 29.07.08      ENVI      12 vols.
 Project: The Prussian Palaces and Gardens Fund (“Stiftung Preussischer Schloesser und Gaerten”) looks after numerous historical parks and palaces in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. At the centre of this man-made cultural landscape (which has developed over three centuries) is Potsdam with its many historical estates, including Sanssouci Palace and Gardens. Your task is to work in the beautiful Sanssouci gardens, which will give you the opportunity to gain a rare insight into this specialist working environment. The Charlottenhof Park, designed by P.J. Lenné in 1838, is one of the areas where you’ll help with the maintenance of paths, flowerbeds and lawns, all of which is an important part of the conservation effort. Your work will take you to all kinds of different areas within the gardens and will help you understand the complexity of this type of establishment.
 Accommodation: A house (with garden) belonging to Babelsberg parish, the bedrooms are in the basement.
Catering: Done by the group.
 Location: Brandenburg, on the south-western outskirts of Berlin
 Train-station: Potsdam
 Airport: Berlin
Age: 16-26
NOTE: Knowledge of English or German language is required.

ijgd 8317      Bad Feilnbach      12.07.08 – 03.08.08      ENVI      15 vols.
Project: In the south-east of Munich, there’s a rare moor. In Germany almost 99% of all moors have been destroyed. The EU-supported nature conservation project LIFE-Nature “Rosenheimer Stammbeckenmoore” has the task to restore dry and exhausted turf moor back to its natural state. You’ll support the project by protecting the primal habitats for dying, moor-specific animals and plants. Furthermore you’ll have the possibility to make nature in the moors accessible, by creating information points which are handicapped friendly.
Accommodation: In the rooms of a kindergarten
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Bad Feilnbach is in Bavaria, 100km south of Munich, 15km to Rosenheim
You can explore one of the most beautiful Bavarian nature and holiday landscapes and use your free time for trips to Munich or Salzburg (both around 100km away) and for mountain hikes.
Train-station: Raubling or Aibling
Airport: Munich
Age: 16-26
Note: Please bring suitable, sturdy shoes.

ijgd 8121      Borna-Birkenhain      12.07.08 – 03.08.08      ENVI      12 vols
Project: At the foot of a wooded hill, surrounded by idyllic hiking trails and not far from a large lake is the home of the “Oekologische Station Borna-Birkenhain”, which is responsible for environmental public relations work, countryside conservation and species protection in the southern Leipzig region.
Work: You will help with the maintenance of pasturelands (mowing and clearing work) as well as habitat and environmental maintenance work in the grounds of the “Oekologische Station”. In your free time, you’ll have the use of bicycles. Life in this camp will be rustic and, admittedly, the work is not easy. But the mining landscape south of Leipzig is beautiful and Leipzig itself is within easy reach by local train.
Accommodation: In tents on grounds of an ecological station. You can use of the sanitary facilities of the station.
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Saxony
Train-station: Leipzig
Airport: Leipzig/Halle
Age: 16 - 26

ijgd 8363      Diemelstadt      12.07.08 – 02.08.08      ENVI      12 vols.
Project: The city of Diemelstadt plans to restore the “Forest-Education-Path” in the landscape-area “Rhoder Hude”. It’s very old and needs to be renewed. In the centre of the area, there’s a spring, which has to be cut free. In addition some information boards, and direction signs are required and it’s your task to construct them, as well as several points of the Forest-Education-Path and some benches. You may bring your own ideas for this. For the topic of ornithology, nest boxes will be constructed. As far as possible, young birds will be marked with a ring.
Accommodation: You’ll stay in a club house close to the sports field, with an open-air bath near by.
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Diemelstadt is located in Hesse, 45km to Kassel, 40km to Paderborn and 100km to Goettingen.
If the mushroom-season has already begun, you will get a mushroom-lesson with mushroom-eating afterwards and an evening at the campfire. During another evening, you can look out for bats. The city Bad Arolsen, near by, with its museums, the castle and the open-air bath is a popular destination.
The 3 Waldecker Bathing Lakes (Eder Lake, Diemel Lake, Twiste Lake) are not far and the neighbour-cities of Marsberg and Warburg have a lot to offer.
Train-station: Warburg
Airport: Hanover
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8224 Wrangelsburg      12.07.08 – 02.08.08      ENVI      12 vols.
Project: A Workcamp in a castle! The Wrangelsburger Castle, built in 1880 is a lordly manor house, which needs to be refurbished, making it attractive for art exhibitions and concerts. The castle is near a beautiful lake and is surrounded by a large park. Here you will do different garden work. You’ll work with teenagers from the workshop of the youth club “Use Your Chances”. This club offers new job perspectives for disadvantaged young people. Together with them, you can also dabble in boat building. The second important task of the Workcamp group is the construction of toys for a playground in the neighbouring village of Gladrow. During your stay, there will be a large village-party on the area of the castle.
Accommodation: You will be accommodated in some rooms of the old castle.
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Wrangelsburg is in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, 18km from Greifswald, 78km from Stralsund.
The village of Wrangelsburg has 162 inhabitants.
You can spend your leisure-time around the beautiful lake, for example bathing or boating. At the weekends, trips to the Baltic Sea or to Poland are possible.
Train-station: Zuessow
Airport: Berlin
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8365      Braunfels      26.07.08 – 16.08.08      ENVI      12 vols.
Project: The city of Braunfels is medieval and old with a ‘fairytale castle’ in the heart of the “Lahn-Dill-Circle”. Here your help is needed in a nature conservation area. Under professional guidance you’ll build a wooden observation deck. Furthermore you’ll build a wooden “balustrade” and erect information boards. If there’s more time, you can renovate a protection-hut with has been build for the honour of the French partner-city Bagnols.
Accommodation: A flat on the area of the building yard.
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Hesse, 60km to Frankfurt a. M. , 60km to Marburg, 30km to Giessen
In your free-time, you can do canoeing on the River Lahn, a lot of hiking and bicycle tours, visit the Castle, go to the open-air swimming bath, or to the wildlife-park. You can do trips to Frankfurt a. M., Koblenz, Marburg and Giessen as well.
Train-station: Wetzlar
Airport: Frankfurt a. M.
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8308      Stuttgart Forst      14.07.08 – 04.08.08      ENVI      13 vols.
Project: Stuttgart is the capital of the Federal State of Baden-Wuerttemberg and for many years has marketed itself as “Stuttgart – city amongst forests and grapevines”. One of the most beautiful local forests is the “Rotwildpark”, this deer park in the western part of the city which is 4 square km in size. The Rotwildpark with its many ancient oaks and beech trees of strange and impressive shapes has been a nature reserve since 1939.
Work: Unfortunately, non-indigenous plants have started to become a problem and this work camp’s main task is to help halt that spread, especially that of the Indian balsam (impatiens glandulifera). As this is only possible with the help of many willing hands, both the Stuttgart Council’s Countryside Conservation Department and the local forestry commission are very much looking forward to your contribution. Besides that work you may be involved in constructing a barbecue site and maintaining other recreational areas including other maintenance of bio topical settings.
Accommodation: You will be living in an idyllic forestry hut, in the middle of the deer park.
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Stuttgart offers a lot of opportunities for leisure activities. The deer park is 10 km from the centre of Stuttgart.
Train-station: Stuttgart
Airport: Stuttgart
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8318      Georgensgmuend      26.07.07 – 16.08.08      ENVI/RENO   12 vols.
Project: Since last year, the environment-station “Haemmerleinsmuehle” organises a workshop for ecology and social work with the aim to create a cultural-garden. This ecological garden will be a place where people can meet, where cultural exchange can take place and where animas will have enough space to live.
Work: In this garden a wooden house will be built as a natural seminar-room. This house will be built in a biological way with natural building materials (wood, straw, loam). With your help the walls will be strengthened with straw-loam.
NOTE: For these works you need sturdy shoes and working-clothes. In addition the area will be formed in a creative way on the area of the culture-garden. With natural-wood you will create a maze and green it with plants. Under an apple-tree there will be formed a “place of calm”, in which you can listen to nature sounds as for example the singing of the birds.
Accommodation: The youth house of Georgensmuend with its cafeteria, its kitchen and a large party- and living-room will be your living place. Your bed rooms are near by.
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Georgensgmuend is in Bavaria, 45km from Nuremberg. It offers a lot of free-time-activities and very interesting cultural and historical attractions, from the Jewish museum to the planetary- or the sculpture-path. Good possibilities for bathing offers the quarry pond, furthermore trips to Nuremberg and to the Frankish Lakes are planned.
Train-station: Georgensgmuend
Airport: Nuremberg, Munich
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8415      Gohrau-Woerlitz      26.07.07 – 16.08.08      ENVI      8 vols.
Project: The “Dessau-Woerlitzer” garden area, which is 145 square kilometre large, has been designed by an English stylist and represents a space for recovery, cultural and aesthetical education for all people. In the park, which is part of the UNESCO-world-heritage since the 2000, you will do gardening, archaeological and landscaping works. This will help improving the image of the complete artwork. A second project you will work in is the forestry sector.
Accommodation: You’ll be accommodated in the international Youth-centre Gohrau, in an elementary school.
Catering is done by the group.
Location: Gohrau is located in Saxony-Anhalt, 5km south-east of Woerlitz, 16km east of Dessau. The medieval village of Gohrau, in the biosphere-reservation “Mittelelbe” is close to the working place “Dessau-Woerlitzer Gardenarea”. You’ll have bicycles for the way to work. On the exterior grounds there are a lot of free-time-activities possible.
Train-station: Dessau or Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Airport: Hanover, Leipzig or Berlin
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8357       Lorch      26.07.08 – 16.08.08      ENVI      16 vols.
Project: The wine-growing town of Lorch is located within the Upper Mid-Rhine Valley region of the Rheingau which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its idyllic countryside, mediaeval towns, castles and stately homes. Your tasks in this beautiful part of the country will be many and diverse.
Work: “Biotopes” (the habitats of indigenous small creatures) need to be cleared of intruding undergrowth; you’ll build a narrow wooden bridge across the Grolochbach (a small stream) and create resting areas and wooden benches within the network of footpaths in the forest. In addition, some cultural and maintenance works are included in your programme. And if you’re interested, you can take part in the “2nd IJGD Soccer Tournament” and take part in excursions to learn about nature conservation. During your free time, you could visit the nearby cities of Wiesbaden and Mainz which offer excellent leisure facilities, take boat trips on the Rhine or go to local wine tasting sessions.
Accommodation: You’ll stay in a school.
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Hesse; Lorch is 35 km to the west of Wiesbaden, Mainz – 40 km, Frankfurt a.M. – 70 km, Koblenz – 70 km.
Train-station: Lorch
Airport: Frankfurt a. M.
Age: 16 - 26

ijgd 8302      Freising      02.08.08 – 30.08.08      ENVI      12 vols.
Project: As in previous years, we offer you this nice camp together with the local community of Freising.
Work: In small municipalities around Freising, you will mow meadows and make hay, repair fences around fruit orchards and secure trees. In addition you will take care of neglected grassland, set up environmental information boards and, thereby, learn a lot about ecology in the region. In the last week you will work at the Freisinger Domberg. Freising is situated in the Isar valley, not far from Munich and the Alps.  As it is situated near Hallertau, the worlds largest hop growing area, there are load of nice beer gardens around.
Accommodation: In first the two and in the last weeks, you will be staying in a self-catering house, 5 km outside Freising, in the week of 22-26 August in an alpine association hut.
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Bavaria; Munich and Landshut are about 35km away
Train-station: Freising
Airport: Munich
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8233 Hamburg-Fischbek      02.08.08 – 23.08.08      ENVI      14 vols.
Project: The Fischbeker Heath is a 770 hectare large nature conservation area in the southwest of Hamburg. To keep the heath, pines got to be displaced. This is urgent for the conservation of the animal life in the heath, as for example the more than 200 different species of ants which are in danger of extinction. These nature conservation works may be physical exhausting, but are therefore placed in a beautiful landscape. In addition you can help with the translation of an information flyer in different languages.
Accommodation: You will be accommodated in a comfortable, Spartan seminar house on the area of the nature conservation centre in Fischbek.
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Fischbek is about an hour by train from the centre of Hamburg. In your free-time you can do trips to the second largest city in Germany. A variety of free-time-possibilities await you: Sights, the harbour, shopping, go out. On the weekend you can do trips to the Northern or Baltic Sea.
Train-station: Hamburg central station
Airport: Hamburg
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8241 Ivenack      02.08.08 – 23.08.08      ENVI      14 vols.
Project: The thousand year old oaks in Ivenack (http://www.ivenacker-eichen.de) are unique in Germany and they attract many visitors each year. The biggest oak has a diameter of 3,49m and is 35,50m tall. Now the area of the park should be expanded and therefore, the forestry office needs your help. You’ll build gates and cut clear the oaks, which are over-grown by other plants. In addition you’ll research the bug-species, which live in the forest, measure and classify trees - an important basis for maps, which are created by the forestry office. You can learn a lot about the forest and its animals from the employees of the forestry office.
Accommodation: You’ll stay in a school or a provisional accommodation
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: The municipality of Ivenack is close to Stavenhagen, in the heart of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It is surrounded by forests, far away from major cities. You’ll be able to discover the beautiful landscape of “Mecklenburg’s Switzerland” by bicycle or canoe. You can go swimming in one of the beautiful lakes around. During the weekend you can visit Berlin or the Baltic Sea Ccoast.
Train-station: Reuterstadt / Stavenhagen
Airport: Hamburg ; Age: 16-26

ijgd 8123      Loessnitz-Affalter      02.08.08 – 23.08.08      ENVI      10 vols.
Project: In 2004, the German Society for Nature Conservation and the city “Loessnitz” have taken over a youth hostel in the city district “Affalter”. This summer the third workcamp will take place in this hostel.
Work: We will need your help for taking care of our tree nursery, for renovating the on-site buildings (you will work with wood and do some painting. You can introduce your ideas) and the outside walls of a barn, as well as taking care of the campsite, volleyball field and the green areas. Furthermore the domestic animals (goat, rabbits, cats and sheep) need to be taken care of. All in all: 100% nature, animals and fresh air, fare away from the city.
Accommodation: youth hostel
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Saxony. The youth hostel is located in slightly hilly region (about 450m above sea level), which has been marked by shale mining and agriculture. The surrounding consists of small lakes and forests. In order to reach the next bigger village you will need about 30 minutes by foot, but it is worth going because it has a nice old village square. Otherwise you can visit old mines or travel to Dresden, Leipzig or Weimar for a day-trip.
Train-station: Aue
Airport: Halle-Leipzig
Age: 16 - 26
Special requirements: Basic knowledge of German or English required.
NOTE: Departure is on a Saturday.

ijgd 8401 Mihla      02.08.08 – 23.08.08      ENVI      18 vols.
Project: In the National Park “Hainich” with a Jungle-Life-Camp, a new hostel of the Thuringian German-Youth-Hostel-Association is under construction. Already during the last three years, ijgd groups worked on this project.
Work:  We will need you help and your creative ideas. Many interesting and diverse tasks are waiting for you. Theses include building a park, plant flowers, set pathways and create a playing area. If you are interested in taking part in the creation of a new youth hostel,
Accommodation: you will stay in a guest house, close to the new hostel.
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Thuringia; Mihla is situated about 15 km northern of Eisenstadt and it is famous for its “Wartburg” castle
Train-station: Eisenach or Muehlhausen
Airport: Hanover or Berlin
Age: 16 - 26

ijgd 8113      Rangsdorf      02.08.08 – 24.08.08      ENVI      15 vols.
Project: A programme has been created by the government in cooperation with the International Airport Berlin Brandenburg, in order to make this beautiful region more accessible to tourists. A network of hiking and bicycling trails should be build, and protected areas for fauna and animals created.
Work: Under supervision of the local landscape-conservation-association, you will help expending and remodelling different parts of the existing trails network. Your work will include restoration and construction of new trail sections, rubbish removal, maintenance works, building park benches, observation points and signposts, which have to be put-up. Most of the work will be done manually. Local partners, such as the forestry office, the nature conservation society and council will help with more technically demanding aspects of your work. At the end of the camp, you have to opportunity to display your work and success to the public.
Accommodation: You’ll stay in a child care centre which offers sufficient bedrooms, a kitchen, a dining room, toilets and shower facilities. Outside there is a garden with a barbecue and a volleyball courts.
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: located in the Federal State of Brandenburg, 15 km south of Berlin. Rangsdorf is a small town southern of Berlin, surrounded by a landscape, typical for Brandenburg. It consists of fields, meadows, small lakes and forests. Bicycles will be provided, so that you can go to work (distance about 3km), reach the train station (distance about 4 km) in order to catch the train to Berlin, and/ or simply discover the surroundings during your free time. There is a lake close-by, where you can go swimming (about 3 km).
Train-station: Rangsdorf
Airport: Berlin
Age: 16-26
Note: knowledge of German and English language is required. You need to be able to ride a bicycle.

ijgd 8355      Runkel      02.08.08- 23.08.08      ENVI      15 vols.
Project: In the beautiful valley of the River Lahn, there is the small city Runkel. This city of castles and fortress is known for its pictorial old town centre and for its idyllic location between the “Westerwald” and “Taunus” mountain range. The city Runkel and the forestry office of “Weilmuenster” have arranged many nature conservation works for you. You will accomplish work like removing grass and weeds; take care of biotopes and habitats in protected sections. All this work will help protecting native lizard species, which are almost unique in Europe. If there’s sufficient time, you will help in taking care of a Jewish graveyard and hiking trails.
Accommodation: In the city hall
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: In the federal state of Hesse; 80 km away from Frankfurt a. M., 60 km from Koblenz, 50 km from Giessen. For your free-time you can do canoeing on the River Lahn, and a lot of hiking or visiting castles. You can do trips to Frankfurt a. M., Koblenz, Limburg or Giessen.
Train-station: Runkel
Airport: Frankfurt a. M.
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8356      Trassem      02.08.-23.08.08      ENVI      12 vols
Project: You will find “Trassem” in the romantic Leukbach-valley; in the southwest of the nature park “Saar-Hunsrueck”. Since 2005 a new forest-experience-house is under construction. Together with the young members of the German Forest-Youth-Group and tutors of the forestry office in Saarburg, you’ll take part in numerous works around this building. You will build walls out of natural stones on the outside of the building; create pathways, built a fireplace and much more. A number of interesting tasks are waiting for you to enhance the forest-experience-path. In addition to building information boards, adventure paths must be recreated. Single projects are offered for little groups in the region of Saarburg. You’ll help in a water-project, where a new habitat for rare water flowers is created. Nature protection or care works complete the variety of nature activities.
Accommodation: In a house of the municipality of Trassem
Catering is done by the group
Location: Trassem is situated in Saarland, 38 km south of Trier and 55 km south-east of Luxembourg. Near by the municipality of Trassem, there’s the beautiful wine town of Saarburg, with its historical castle-ruin and the pictorial Old City with a waterfall. In addition to the many sights, in Saarburg there are a lot of free-time-possibilities, such as cafés, an open air bath, and a bird of prey park. You got the possibility to do canoeing on the river Saar or to climb on the rocks of the Saar-valley. You can do trips to Trier, Saarbruecken, Luxemburg and France.
Train-station: Saarburg
Airport: Saarbruecken, Frankfurt a.M. or Frankfurt Hahn
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8209       Zellerfeld      02.08.-23.08.08      ENVI      15 vols.
Project: Based near the historic mining and university town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld.
Work: You will be involved with a variety of environmental and nature conservation programmes in co-operation with the Wildemann forestry team. Your tasks will include the maintenance of riverbanks and small waterways, creation of habitats and forest pathways. The forestry team will of course be happy to share their knowledge of nature conservation and their involvement in the environmental protection of the forests. This camp is for people who are happy to live, work and spend most of their free time surrounded by “Mother Nature“ – you must be very much in tune with nature to enjoy this project. The Harz region is a popular holiday destination; there are mountains, caves with stalactites, mining museums, nature reserves and vast forests steeped in legends and fairy tales, all waiting to be explored by you.
Accommodation & Catering: You’ll live in a hut in the forest and sleep on beds of hay. On site there is an outside earth closet, water from a well, a barbecue grill and cooking facilities. Showers are available at a camping ground about one kilometre away, cooking done by the group.
Location: Lower Saxony; Clausthal-Zellerfeld is situated in the centre of the Harz region and your accommodation is some 2.5 km from the city centre.
Train-station: Goslar
Airport: Hanover
Age: 16 - 26
Special requirements: You will need a mattress, a warm sleeping bag and weatherproof clothing and hiking shoes

ijgd 8452      Arendsee – „Gruenes Band“      09.08.-30.08.08      ENVI      18 vols
Project: The “Green band”, the former inner-German borderline, is with about 1393 km the longest biotope-system in Germany. This nature camp will be supported by the BUND Saxony-Anhalt. Apart of the work in the “Green band” (creating information boards for walking paths, and relax-stations, as well as cutting bushes) you’ll do nature-development-workshops, walking-tours, and listen to lectures. Close to the former German-German border, the “iron curtain”, you’ll find media for the topic “the foreign in me and in others”. “Wilderness” and cultural landscape areas will be incorporated. Little country-art-installations in the landscape will be installed as enriching signs for us and others. Adventure, nature, arts and culture will be explained and medial documented.
Accommodation: You’ll stay in a summer-hut on the area of the KiEZ Arendsee
Catering: done by the house
Location: Arendsee is in Saxony-Anhalt, 80km north of Magdeburg.
For your free-time, not only the area of the KiEZ offers a lot of sportive possibilities, fun, games and creativity, but in addition the comfortable romantic city of Arendsee in the Altmark. The lake invites you to go bathing and to do water sports and the beautiful landscape invites to go hiking and bicycling.
Train-station: Salzwedel or Seehausen
Airport: Hanover or Berlin
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8231       Hemdingen      09.08.-30.08.08      ENVI      12 vols
Project: In the north of Hamburg there’s the Himmel-moor, the largest high moor of Schleswig-Holstein.
Work: With your work you’ll help maintain the moor and recover the natural condition of the moor. You’ll displace foreign plants, and help at water-conservation works.
Furthermore you can participate in nature-conservation and forest operations and present your achievement to the inhabitants. In this way, a habitat for the animals and plants is formed, which is only found in the moor. The work is sometimes exhausting, but you can take in a lot of fresh air and one can learn a lot about the local wildlife.
Accommodation: You’ll stay in rooms of a school and a municipality centre. The way to the work in the forest you’ll cover by bicycles.
Catering: done by the group
Location: Hemdingen is in Schleswig-Holstein, 30km from Hamburg, and 100km from Luebeck. It has about 1500 inhabitants and is placed in a beautiful landscape. The municipality has already accommodated many Workcamp-groups and you’ll have the possibility to come in contact, with the population. At the weekend trips to the coasts and in the cities of Hamburg and Luebeck are worth it.
Train-station: Quickborn
Airport: Hamburg
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8360      Ingelheim      09.08.-30.08.08      ENVI      17 vols
Project: Together with the employees of the forest district “Emmerichshuette”, you’ll form the outer area of the new built free time house in the well-wooded Hunsrueck. The free time house offers accommodation for grades of school at their forest-adventuring-tours. Additionally you will go on nature conservation works in the city’s forest. For example view plant and forest care works, whilst building and repairing safety fences, tables and benches. If you’re interested, you can learn a lot about the forest.
Accommodation: You’ll stay in the new and modern furnished house, which is idyllic and in the forest.
Catering: Partly done by the house
Location: Rheinboellen, 45km from Koblenz, 60km from Mainz, and 85 km from Frankfurt a. M..
A van will be available and there are possibilities for trips to the river Rhine, to Koblenz, Mainz or Frankfurt a. M..
The forest house „Emmerichshuette“ in Rhineland-Palatinate, is 5km south-east of
Train-Station: Bingen
Airport: Frankfurt a.M. and Frankfurt Hahn
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8303       Rottach-Egern (Tegernsee)      09.08.-31.08.08      ENVI      15 vols
Project: Rottach-Egern lies on Lake Tegern in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps. The local council would like to give you the opportunity to work within this wonderful alpine landscape and explore the natural beauty of this region.
Work: You’ll join council employees in a variety of tasks such as conservation and maintenance of Alpine pastures and biotopes as well as combating neophytes (non-indigenous plants) and restoring existing hiking trails.
Accommodation: You’ll stay at the local school’s sports hall which will become your sleeping and living quarters. You’ll prepare your own meals (paid for by IJGD) in the school kitchen and share the housework.
Location: Bavaria; 56 km south of Munich. Rottach-Egern offers a variety of leisure facilities, amongst them an open-air swimming pool and a bathing lake. At weekends, you could visit Munich, Salzburg, Innsbruck or the beautiful Chiemsee (“Lake Chiem”).
Train station: Tegernsee
Airport: Munich
Age: 16 - 26

ijgd 8225       Wangerooge II      09.08.-23.08.08      ENVI      20 vols
Project: ijgd groups have supported the coastal and dune land protection programme on this North Sea Island for over 50 years.
Work: Under the leadership of the Marine and Waterways Department, your international group will participate in erecting sand-retaining fences, plant marram grass and repair footpaths in the dunes. All these jobs prevent erosion of the dunes by wind and water, and you will make an important contribution to the island’s sea defences. The dunes are a nature reserve and offer a habitat for coastal animal and plant life. You will have bicycles to reach the particular beaches you’ll be working on. This is a project for people who love the sea, the beach, the sun and the wind. Wangerooge has numerous nature and bird sanctuaries and is a car-free zone. It is a holiday island which offers a variety of free time activities such as swimming in the sea, beach volley ball, walking the mud-flats, bicycle tours, small concerts and much more.
Accommodation: A large youth hostel with shared rooms, in a 7-floors-tower; 200 meters to the beach. You will get bikes in order to go to the working-area. Full board.
www.jugendhergerge.de/jh/wangerooge/
Location: Wangerooge is an island in the North Sea. It has approx. 2000 inhabitants. The island belongs to the National Park “Niedersaechsisches Wattenmeer” and has special flora and fauna. Cars are absolutely forbidden at the island.
Train-station: Sande, from there by bus to Harlesiel, from there by ferry to Wangerooge;
Airport: Bremen or Hamburg
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8207      Wolfenbuettel           09.08.-30.08.08      ENVI      15 vols
Project: In the landscape conservation area of OEsel, there are very rare species of plants and animals which need to be protected.
Work: To preserve this natural habitat and biodiversity, the mistreated grassland area needs to be enlarged. According to this, trees and bushes have to be displaced. You’ll be supported by workers of the BUND (alliance for environment and nature protection Germany (www.bund-bs.de)). Of course you’ll learn a lot about nature protection.
Accommodation: In a youth tent camp, there’ll be a tent village for you. Meanwhile there’ll be an international meeting of the youth care. You’ll have many possibilities for international exchange and you can be part of the free time activities of the youth care. The tent camp is about 5 km from Wolfenbuettel. For trips to the closer environment, and for going to your working place, you’ll have bicycles.
Catering: done by the group
Location: Wolfenbuettel is situated in Lower Saxony. Braunschweig is 15km, Wolfsburg 50km, Hanover 60km away. Wolfenbuettel has 56000 inhabitants. It is an old residency city with more than 600 stud work houses, many museums and sights.
Train-station: Wolfenbuettel
Airport: Hanover or Hamburg
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8374 Ludwigshafen      16.08.-06.09.08      ENVI      12 vols
Project: You’ll help in the reconstruction of a donkey enclosure in the wild park. There are around 200 animals living here. For this, poles must be replaced, and cross-pieces must be sawn and bolt. Additional you’ll help at the care of animals and the park: Cleansing of the enclosure, prepare the food and feed the animals, remove plants and care for the paths.
Accommodation: You’ll stay in a house, situated in the area of the wildlife-park.
Catering: done by the group
Location: Ludwigshafen is in Rhineland-Palatinate. 5km from Mannheim, 20km from Heidelberg and 70km from Karlsruhe
In the closer surrounding, there are a variety of bathing lakes and cites of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim offer a culture and free time programme.
Also the university city of Heidelberg with its pictorial castle is worth a trip.
Train-station: Ludwigshafen
Airport: Frankfurt a.M. and Frankfurt Hahn
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8323       Spaichingen      16.08.-30.08.08      ENVI      15 vols
Project: Together with the nature conservation office and the environment advisory council there are a lot of tasks for you. With your help there will be done nature conservation works. Planned is the creation of a new “biotope”. With your support, larger stones (25-30cm edge length) will be placed in the bank of a pond. At existing “biotopes”, you can cut trees and bushes and reopen water ditches. Additional there are planned works for fruit trees, where your help is required. You can learn a lot about nature protection and biotopes.
Accommodation: An elementary school in Spaichingen
Catering: Done by the group, and you can use the school’s kitchen.
Location: Spaichingen is in Baden-Wuerttemberg, 110km south of Stuttgart, 40km north of the Lake Constance. Therefore there are a lot of possible trips, to the Lake Constance, the Swabian Mountains or to Switzerland.
Train-station: Spaichingen
Airport: Stuttgart
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8305       Vaterstetten      16.08.08 – 06.09.08      ENVI      12 vols
Project: Vaterstetten Municipality has worked with ijgd groups for many years.
Work: This year, you will help members of the Environmental Department with a variety of landscape conservation tasks, including wetland habitat maintenance, grass cutting, irrigation work and the conservation of hedgerows.  You’ll have bicycles to get you to and from work, and you are welcome to use them during your free time.  Munich is close-by and with excellent public transport links, you will have ample opportunity to explore Bavaria’s capital city and its surroundings.
Accommodation:  A comfortably furnished and well equipped youth centre, shower facilities are provided in a nearby sports stadium.
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Bavaria; 20 km east of Munich
Train-station: Munich Central Station
Airport: Munich
Age: 16 - 26

ijgd 8215      Wildemann      18.08.-06.09.08      ENVI      12 vols
Project: The small town of Wildemann is scenically situated in the Harz Mountains—offering mountains, stalactite caves, environmental protection areas, and forests. It is a popular destination for tourists and day-trippers. Many German fairy tales and stories originate from this area.
Work: In cooperation with the Lower Saxony Forestry Office you will carry out various nature and landscape conservation tasks, e.g. restoration of courses of streams to their natural state, care and maintenance of young trees and recreation facilities. In addition to these interesting and diverse tasks you can explore the Harz region together with the Forestry Office staff. Substantial hikes, e. g. to the Brocken Mountain, are possible as well. Don’t forget your hiking boots!
Accommodation: Wildemann hiking cottage
Catering: done by the group
Location: Lower Saxony, 20 km to Goslar, 7 km to Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Train-station: Goslar
Airport: Hanover
Age: 16 - 26
Special requirements: weatherproof clothing and hiking boots!

ijgd 8309       Kloster Ensdorf      23.08.-06.09.08      ENVI/ KIDS  15 vols
Project: The old Benedictine monastery of Ensdorf lies on the river Vils in the Upper Palatinate between Regensburg and Amberg. In 1920, the order of Don Giovanni Bosco, an Italian saint, moved to Ensdorf, and following the interests of its founder, the order serves to support young people find their way in life, and helps them realise the possibility of building a worthwhile future. Commitment and involvement go hand in hand with the search to make sense of this life, the issues concerning the future of society, and the questions surrounding how to best live one’s own life and our place in the natural world. The monastery’s motto, “Schoepfungs-Erleben Kloster Ensdorf”, shows the order’s intention to give visiting school children, young people, families and teachers the opportunity to experience nature and the wonders of creation. In recent years, new biotopes were created, such as orchards, a monastery garden and ponds by the river Vils. These, together with the local forests, dry grasslands and water meadows, create a varied nature study area which needs to be sympathetically managed.
Work: Your tasks will include the maintenance of biotopes, green spaces and forests, the renovation of rooms in the Learning Centre and some work in the Centre grounds.
Accommodation: You’ll stay in dormitory-style accommodation in the Meeting House (Haus der Begegnung) within the monastery grounds, where you’ll prepare your own meals (paid for by IJGD) and share the housework. The “special treat” of this camp is the vast choice of leisure activities: beach-volleyball court, cool-water fun park, Gruene Kapelle (“green chapel”), Klanghaus (“house of sound”), rope garden, musical instruments, bicycles, canoes, lots of indoor games (football tables, table tennis, billiards etc.).
Location: Bavaria; between Nuremberg and Regensburg.
Train station: Amberg
Airport: Frankfurt a.M., Frankfurt Hahn or Munich
Age: 18 – 26
Special requirements: English or German knowledge are mandatory

ijgd 8229       Edewecht       11.10.-25.10.08      ENVI      12 vols
Project: This autumn, the small town of Edewecht in the beautiful Ammerland district would like your help to convert an area of agricultural land into an environmental conservation project.
Work: There is a variety of outdoor tasks for you supported by local expertise. Your work will involve planting, the maintenance of existing young plants, designing information boards and building a wooden observation platform. You’ll have the opportunity to take part in small group excursions to learn about local flora and fauna, and during these two weeks you could gain a lot of knowledge about nature conservation and countryside maintenance. And of course this is a great opportunity to spend time outdoors before the winter sets in. With a bit of luck you’ll have two weeks great weather due to an “Indian Summer“. In your free time, you could explore the region’s excellent cycle lane network (bicycles are provided), visit the lovely university town of Oldenburg (20 km by public transport) or, at weekends, take a trip to Bremen or the North Sea.
Accommodation: In a school in Edewecht
Catering: cooking done by the group
Location: Lower Saxony, Oldenburg is 20km away and Bremen 65km
Train-station: Bremen, Hamburg, Hanover
Airport: Bremen, Hamburg
Age: 16 - 26

Social Services & Game Activities

ijgd 8413       Naumburg      21.06.-12.07.08      KIDS/ FEST  15 vols
Project: The grounds of the former Slaughterhouse in Naumburg, now a listed building, are being transformed into a Cultural Centre for historic crafts and building materials. Your hands-on support with this project is very welcome.
Work: For two weeks, you’ll help with renovations and other work in the grounds as well as the recreation of the historic kitchen garden. For the new eco-gardens, you could design and build units for a mosaic layout and furniture, using historical materials and wood from the local forests. In addition, your workload will of course include the preparation of plant beds, laying paths and general ground clearing operations. You might also help with the restoration of historic building materials, which will then be reused during further renovation work. In the third week, we would like you to take part in a number of creative workshops with local young people. You might discover a fascination for the rhythm and power of samba drumming, and also create costumes, props and stage sets for your leaving party. There will be time to visit the beautiful countryside of Germany’s northernmost wine-growing region, and to explore the attractive town of Naumburg and its history.
Accommodation: Your accommodation will be in a hall in the grounds of the former slaughterhouse.
Catering: done by the group
Location: Saxony-Anhalt; Naumburg is 45 km south-west of Leipzig and 40 km south of Halle
Train-station: Naumburg
Airport: Leipzig or Berlin
Age: 16 - 26

ijgd 8414       Osterwieck      21.06.-12.07.08      KIDS      15 vols
Project: In “Osterwieck” in the “Harz” Mountains, you’ll be able to participate in the work with kids and teenagers and be creative in different parts.
Work: In age-based groups, you can bring the culture of your home-country to German kids and teenagers - your culture, language, country and people, friends and family, tales and history. The kids are looking forward in playing, singing, listening to tales from all over the world and doing many other things with you. In addition, it’s very important, that you bring along ideas for games, music, creative handicraft and recipes from your home-country. For example photos, cards and books about the city and the country, in where you are living, may help you at this work here. You will work in kindergarten or the after-school care club, where you care about kids in the age of 1 to 10 and work with them in self-prepared projects. In the first days you’ll have time to prepare for the projects together and to erect a great programme as one group.
Accommodation: You’ll be accommodated in a community building of the Catholic Church in Osterwieck.
Catering is done by the group.
Location: The small town Osterwieck is situated in Saxony-Anhalt, 86 km from Magedeburg and 48 km from Braunschweigh. Osterwieck is 1025 years old, lies in a beautiful valley in between two mountains.
Train-station: Halberstadt or Vienenburg
Airport: Hanover or Berlin
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8370       Dortmund-Rahm III      28.06.-19.07.08      KIDS      12 vols
Project: The Dortmund-Rahm Youth Office runs varied holiday programmes for children and young people aged 4 to 18 in its youth leisure centre and the affiliated adventure playground. The youth centre and the adventure playground (an area of some 12,000 square metres) offers a number of different activities, such as a Young People’s Café with billiard and football tables, internet point, fitness room, bicycle repair workshop, an area for building huts, a mud-and-water area, campfire, workshops and sports field.
Work: After a few days of introduction you’ll work in all of the above activity areas – you’ll supervise play sessions as well as sports and crafts activities for children and young people. We also plan to take children to the outskirts of the city for a 5-day camping trip, for which your help is also required.
Accommodation: You’ll stay in the youth leisure centre, where you’ll prepare your own meals (paid for by ijgd) and share the housework. We envisage joint free-time activities with the other work camp groups staying in Dortmund, and there are numerous possible excursions, for example to the cities of Bochum, Cologne and Hamburg.
Location: North Rhine-Westphalia; 20 km north-east of Bochum, 90 km north-east of Cologne
Train-station: Dortmund
Airport: Dortmund, Duesseldorf, Cologne-Bonn
Age: 17 – 26
Special requirements: good German knowledge is mandatory. Minimum age for this camp is 17 years, a good working knowledge of German is required, and an aptitude for working with children and young people is essential.

ijgd 8371       Dortmund-Eichlinghofen IV      28.06.-19.07.08      KIDS      10 vols
Project: Each year, the Eichlinghofen leisure centre for young people, run by the City of Dortmund Youth Office, offers two separate activity holidays for children and older youths respectively. These take place for one week each in camps in the leisure centre grounds. The third week is for joint excursions to a nearby lake.
Work: After a few days of introduction you’ll help with a variety of activities, but your main task will be preparing meals and drinks (breakfast, lunch and dinner) for the groups and it would be great if you could provide recipes from your native country so that you all feel at home here. In addition, your help is needed with educational activities, and some cleaning up. All in all, most of your “work” is about “leisure” activities!
Accommodation: You’ll stay in tents in the grounds of the leisure centre, where you’ll prepare your own meals (paid for by IJGD) and share the housework. We envisage joint free-time activities with the other work camp groups staying in Dortmund, and there are numerous possible excursions, for example to the cities of Bochum, Cologne and Hamburg.
Location: North Rhine-Westphalia; 20 km north-east of Bochum, 90 km north-east of Cologne.
Train-station: Dortmund
Airport: Dortmund, Duesseldorf, Cologne-Bonn
Special requirements: Minimum age for this camp is 18 - 26 years and a good working knowledge of German and some educational experience would be an advantage.

ijgd 8369       Dortmund-Scharnhorst  II      05.07.-26.07.08      KIDS      12 vols
Project: The Dortmund Youth Office runs varied holiday programmes for children and young people aged 6 to 20 years in its Scharnhorst Centre and adventure playground. The Scharnhorst Centre is a large modern youth leisure centre with internet café, sports facilities, a common room, rehearsal rooms for bands, and an adjacent leisure area that was designed by young people. The huge adventure playground has an on-site playhouse and features pools, a site for building huts, a campfire, sports fields, meadows, stables and a riding arena. During the first two weeks, the adventure playground offers holiday activities for local children. The programme includes play sessions, sports and creative activities and, during the first week, games with historical themes. During week three, holiday sessions for young people are being offered at the “Blue Place” in the grounds of the Scharnhorst Centre.
Work: After the introduction you’ll help with a variety of activities: You’ll help run the historical games, the sports activities including those with horses, and all the other holiday activities.
Accommodation / Catering: You’ll stay in the youth leisure centre, where you’ll use kitchen. Catering and housework will be done by the group.
Location: North Rhine-Westphalia; 20 km north-east of Bochum, 90 km north-east of Cologne. We envisage joint free-time activities with the other work camp groups staying in Dortmund, and there are numerous possible excursions, for example to the cities of Bochum, Cologne and Hamburg.
Train-station: Dortmund
Airport: Dortmund, Duesseldorf, Cologne-Bonn
NOTE: Minimum age for this camp is 18 - 26 years. A good working knowledge of German is required, and an aptitude for working with children and young people is absolutely essential.

ijgd 8213      Rodewald       19.07.-07.08.08      KIDS      12 vols
Project: In the idyllic village of Rodewald, you’ll be part of a holiday-fun-action for kids between 6 and 16. Together with members of the “Binderhaus e.V.” and other complimentary helpers, you’ll form a 15-day-programme for them. A kid’s camp is part of the programme. You’ll introduce your home countries with music, dances, fairy tales, games and typical meals. For the older children there will be a PC-workshop, which has the task to document the camp. Your ideas are welcome!
Accommodation: In large rooms in the building
Catering: done by the group
Location: Rodewald is situated in Lower Saxony, 55 km north-west of Hanover
Train-station: Schwarmstedt
Airport: Hanover
Age: 18-26
Special Requirement: Knowledge of German language (basics) is required, pedagogical skill and artistic, technical or sportive interests are advantages. Note: Further information www.Binderhaus-Rodewald.de.

ijgd 8351       Dortmund Big Tipi I      19.07.-09.08.08      KIDS      10 vols
Project: Adventure-world Fredenbaum, offers a holiday-programme for kids between 4 and 16 years. In the centre there’s the largest Indian tent in the world, “Big Tipi”, the former kids and youth stage of the EXPO 2000 in Hanover. In the Big Tipi and the 22000m² large area, kids and teenagers can spend their free time. After settling in during the first days, you’ll support different stations. You’ll attend to the kids, who participate in the open summer-holiday-programme. You’ll organise games, climbing and sportive and technical activities (building of musical instruments, practice of dances)
This workcamp is in cooperation with the adventure-pedagogical Club “Experience Learn Develop” (www.e-l-e.de)
Accommodation: In tents in a Tipi-village on the area
Catering: done by the group
Location: Dortmund is in Northrhine-Westphalia, 20km north-east of Bochum, 90km from Cologne. In Dortmund there are open-air and indoor swimming pools, the Westfalenpark, museums and the stadium of the BVB are possibilities for trips. The city is to reach by subway in about 7minutes. Additional the city and the region “Ruhrgebiet” of course offer all possibilities of a major city.
Train-station: Dortmund
Airport: Dortmund, Duesseldorf, Cologne-Bonn
Age: 18-26
Special requirement: Good knowledge of German language and pedagogical skill are absolutely necessary!

ijgd 8352       Bad Oeynhausen      19.07.-11.08.08      KIDS      15 vols
Project: This year again, the Youth- & Social-Work department of Bad Oeynhausen will run a two weeks holiday program for 150 children aged between 6 to 13 years.
Work: Under the slogan “Wickie and the stong kids” (according to a modern tall) games and a lot of creative things are going to take place. Inspired through old tales you will – together with the staff - be converting the whole into a huge pirate-Camp. At the end, there will be a big festival. In addition, there are huts to be built, excursions to be made and the program includes one overnight stay with the children. Your creative ideas will be very welcome!
In your first week, you’ll be helping staff from the Department for Youth and Social Work with preparations this holiday program, and week two and three you will be spening the time with the children.
Accommodation: In the Youth and Leisure Centre in town, this offers numerous free time activities.
Catering: partly done by the group.
Location: North-Rhine Westphalia; Bielefeld – 30 km, Hanover – 80 km
Train-station: Bad Oeynhausen
Airport: Hanover
Age: 18 -26 years
Please note: Good German is absolutely essential

ijgd 8240 Wismar      19.07.-09.08.08      KIDS      15 vols
 Project: Wismar, a beautiful old town on the Baltic Sea, is running a children’s play scheme this summer.
 Work: As part of this, we would like you to prepare and run a holiday play scheme with an international flavour in the town gardens. Your first week is preparation time and the next two weeks will be spent putting your prepared plans into action with the children of Wismar. You’ll love this work camp if you enjoy contact with children and creative and sports activities and thrive on meeting lots of new people. You’ll have bicycles to get to and from work and to use in your free time. Wismar lies on the Baltic and is surrounded by beautiful countryside. The Hanseatic Cities of Luebeck and Rostock with their multitude of recreational and cultural facilities are within easy reach, as is Poel Island.
 Accommodation: In the “Schwalbennest“ Youth & Leisure Centre in Wismar (www.schwalbennest-wismar.de), near the beach, which is owned by the Wendorf district Workers‘ Welfare Association
 Catering: cooking done by the group
 Location: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania; 30 km north of Schwerin and about half-way between Luebeck and Rostock
 Train-station: Wismar
 Airport: Hamburg
Please note: Minimum age for this work camp is – Age: 18 -26 years

ijgd 8242       Kiel      26.07.-23.08.08      KIDS      15 vols
Project: The grounds of the Falckenstein Youth Holiday Camp, which served as accommodation for young participants of the 1972 Olympics, are right on the shores of the Kiel Fjord (“Kieler Foerde“). Every year, this vast area by the water’s edge is used as a play centre for some 1500 children.
Work: We would like you to help us with providing day care for the children. Each week has its own theme, for example “Living like Native Americans” or “Magic Worlds”. You’ll be involved in all kinds of activities – playing, making things, fancy dress and many more. If you love working with kids, are keen to gain working experience in this field and enjoy the seaside, you’ll have fantastic four weeks. The first week gives you time to get to know each other, take a look around Kiel and become familiar with the holiday camp. During the other three weeks, you’ll spend every day playing with the children. Each afternoon, the kids return to Kiel and the beach is yours – time for volleyball, table tennis, barbecues…
Accommodation: In one of the houses in the grounds, cooking partly done by the group.
Location: In the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein; Kiel, the capital of the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein, is some 12 km away from your accommodation. Hamburg – 100 km, Flensburg – 80 km
Train-station: Kiel
Airport: Hamburg
Please note: Age: 18 -26 years, good knowledge of German or English required.

ijgd 8100      Berlin-Lichtenberg      02.08.-24.08.08      SOCI      10 vols
Project: This camp is about helping to look after residents of the “Evening Sun” old people’s nursing home.
Work: Your tasks will include supporting the carers by distributing and assisting with meals as well as organising and devising free time activities for the residents, for example games, exercise and trips out. You might read to residents or go for walks with them (on foot or with a wheelchair) and an important part of your day will be caring for individual bedridden residents, maybe you’d sing to them or make music, play games or just talk with them. You are particularly welcome to create programmes of entertainment with an international flair.
Accommodation: Youth hostel “Prosocial” with shared rooms, cooking partly done by the group.
Location: Berlin
Train-station: Berlin
Airport: Berlin
Age: 18 -26 years
Please note: Good German is absolutely essential

ijgd 8206       Helmstedt      09.08.-30.08.08      DISA      12 vols
Project: On the area of the Speech-recovery-kindergarten and the healing-pedagogical-kindergarten of the life-aid in Helmstedt (www.lebenshilfe-he-wf-ggmbh.de) a large natural area will be formed as a playground and free-time-place.
Work: You will work together on this creative project with disabled employees of the life-aid-workshop, build paths, a hut, and create kid’s corners for playing close to nature. You can of course bring your own creative ideas. The employees of the life-aid support you at your free time programme and they are planning collective trips. Visiting the working stations of the life-aid and a large party with all kids and employees are planned as well.
Accommodation: You’ll stay in the nature-friends-house on the outskirts of Helmstedt, which isn’t far from the city’s centre.
Location: Helmstedt is situated in Lower Saxony between Magedburg and Braunschweig. Helmstedt has with 25.000 inhabitants. There’s a large offer for doing sports, for example swimming, fishing, tennis, horseback riding and skate-boarding. There are cinemas and discotheques. The zone-border-museum Helmstedt and the memorial “German Division Marienborn”(one of the most important former border crossings of the divided Germany) provide you an insight into the country’s history and the reunification of both of the German states almost twenty years ago (following the fall of the Berlin Wall).
Train-station: Helmstedt
Airport: Hanover
Age: 16-26
Special Requirement: Knowledge of German language is required for being able to talk to the disabled people and the kids.

ijgd 8203      Hildesheim       09.08.-30.08.08      DISA      12 vols
Project: The disable workshop in Hildesheim offers work in different categories (packaging, montage, metal, pressure, wood, kitchen or garden) for adult people with a physical or/and psychological handicap. Here they can establish their independent life, where they feel good and are able to live within their individual possibilities. Together with the carers of the workshop you’ll create a holiday programme for these people. In small groups you’ll work 3 days a week, on a bicycle project (repairing, traffic training, and bicycle tours) and a garden creation project. One day each week is planned for free time activities and trips. Friday there’s a collective barbecue-day.
Accommodation: You’ll stay in the youth hostel in Hildesheim-Drispenstedt.
Catering: partly done by the house.
Location: Hildesheim is in Lower Saxony, 30 km from Hanover. It’s a “little big city” with 100.000 inhabitants and you’ll find some culture and free time offers.
Train-station: Hildesheim
Airport: Hanover
Age: 18-26
Special Note: Knowledge of German language is important in order to be able to talk to the handicapped Hanoverants.

Work & Study

ijgd 8118      Storkow      05.07.08-27.07.08      LANG / ENVI  13 vols.
Project: “Storkow Peace Village” is an anti-racism youth project which aims to promote humanity, solidarity and inter-cultural youth work. In addition to your work, this camp gives you the opportunity to learn German.
Work: You’ll work for about three hours per day. You will help in taking care of parks in the city and within the Peace Village.
Study: Beside work, you will have two hours of intensive language class. All tutors are experienced teachers of German as a foreign language and they are participants in this work camp too.
Accommodation: In the Peace Village
Catering is done by the group
Age: 16 - 26
Location: within Brandenburg; Storkow is 50 km south-east of Berlin. During your free time, you’ll have full use of all cultural and sportive facilities around, including volleyball and basketball courts and football fields. You can also explore the beautiful surrounding countryside by bike, boat or by foot, or take a trip to Berlin.
Train-station: Storkow
Airport: Berlin
Please note: EXTRA FEE 300 €

ijgd 8221      Goehrde      02.08.08-23.08.08      STUDY      12 vols
Project: The educational institution “Bahnhof Goehrde” is placed on a 14.000m² big area, where there is a apiary, mixed orchard and a herbage garden. The employees of the educational institution care a lot about this area and the historical building, a former imperial train-station.
Work: You’ll help in taking care of the building and the surrounding complex.
Study: “Work and Utopia - What future do teenagers have in Europe?” is the topic of the study. Beside theoretical and philosophic questions like “Has our kind of society become to its highest level?” and “Are we on a historical turning point?”, you’ll work with extracts of utopias work, job market and education. What do you wish form the future? And how do your personal plans and utopias look like? Are there cultural differences in planning and the wishes for the future? If you got material concerning these topics, please bring them with you. You’ll be guided by the head of an educational institution.
Accommodation: You’ll inhabit the comfortable educational institution. http://www.bahnhof-goehrde.de
Catering is done by the group
Location: Goehrde is in the Lower Saxony, 40km from Lueneburg, 80km to Hamburg. The educational institution is placed in a natural surrounding and is easy to reach by train. The River Elbe and the large Goehrde-forest offer beautiful free time possibilities. On the weekend you can go to the medieval city of Lueneburg, to the metropolis Hamburg, or the coast of the Northern Sea.
Train-station: Goehrde
Airport: Hamburg
Age: 16-26
Special Requirement: The participants should come from Europe and should be able to speak English or German.

ijgd 8301 Berchtesgaden      16.08.08 – 06.09.08      STUDY/ENVI  12 vols.
Project: Work and explore nature in the fascinating alpine countryside of Berchtesgaden National Park. Since many years we are offering this camp with lots of success.
Work: During the first two weeks you will help the national park staff to remove roots and branches from alpine meadows. Through this ‘forest-pasture separation’, the alpine pasture should return to its natural state, instead of one designed for human use.
Study: The third week of your camp will be spent on hikes and excursions with mountain experts. You will learn a lot about the alpine ecosystem and the work of looking after a national park.
Accommodation: A simply equipped self-support hut in the national park without showers but with water, no telephone or electricity, but within the beautiful mountainous area of the Alps.
Catering: Done by the group.
Location: Bavaria; 150km south-east from Munich and 20km northern from Salzburg. The park is situated close to the German-Austrian border. During your free-time you can hike in the beautiful mountains or go shopping in Munich or Salzburg.
Train station: Berchtesgaden with transfer to the national park
Airport: Salzburg (Austria) or Munich
Age: 16 - 26
Note: this camp will be rustic – be prepared to leave your everyday comforts at home! Don’t forget to bring sturdy hiking boots.

ijgd 8106      Berlin-Spandau      23.08.08-14.09.08      LANG / DISA  15 vols.
Projekt: This workcamp takes place at the Spandau branch of the “Mosaic Workshop for the Disabled” and includes twelve different workshop areas, such as industrial assembly, laundry, joinery, home-grown produce, canteen etc, and providing work for 260 mentally disabled people. The facility also provides care, support and education.
Study: In addition to working at the Mosaic workshops, this camp gives you the opportunity to learn and improve your German. During week one, you’ll have four to five hours of language tuition per day. Your tutors are experienced teachers of German as a foreign language and also participate in this workcamp. During the next two weeks, you’ll spend about four hours each day in the workshop areas, where you can practise and improve your newly acquired knowledge of German. An hour’s German tuition straight after work should help to ensure that you retain whatever new words and phrases you learned that day.
Work: During the following two weeks you will work for about 4 hours in the mosaic workshop. Your work will include to rearrange the surrounding area, to plant flowers and to arrange sitting areas. Furthermore you will have the chance to gain an insight view into the work of this workshop. If you want you can help and learn how to cooperate with disabled people.
Accommodation: You’ll stay at the Grunewald centre, in the middle of the Grunewald forest and close to Lake Grunewald.
Catering some meals will be prepared by the group and some will be prepared by the centre.
Location: The centre of Berlin is within easy reach by public transport. You will receive the tickets for it. The 3 hectare big area is big enough for camping, built an outside theatre, for BBQ, and to play football.
Train-station: Berlin
Airport:  Berlin
Age: 18-26
NOTE: This camp is for participants with a basic knowledge of German
EXTRA FEE: € 300,-

ijgd 8101       Berlin-Koepenick      23.08.-10.09.08      STUDY/FEST  10 vols
Project: In the Koepenick district on the outskirts of Berlin, within close proximity to two rivers, lakes and extensive forests, is a home for mentally handicapped people run by the social foundation “Koepenick”.
Work: Your main task will be to organise and run a summer fete together with the residents. We would hope that the preparation of decorations, games, entertainment (for example, music and theatre) and food would mirror the varied cultural backgrounds of the participants. Other tasks are the creation of a herb and vegetable bed for each of the groups living in the home, and take day trips with the residents. Most of the residents work in workshops until early afternoon and you will need to be flexible in arranging your working time and be prepared to work in the afternoons.
STUDY: This year, this international workcamp should offer you, next to work and meeting residents of this centre, the possibility to learn and improve your German. You will have two hours of intensive German classes every day, followed by 3 to 4 hours of work. All tutors are experienced teachers of German as a foreign language and they are participants in this work camp too.
Accommodation: In rooms belonging to the protestant parish of Berlin-Oberschoeneweide
Catering: cooking partly done by the group
Location: Berlin
Train-station: Berlin     
Airport: Berlin
Age: 18 - 26
Please note: A basic knowledge of German is an advantage for this camp.
EXTRA FEE €240,-

Playground Construction

ijgd 8358      Nidderau      12.07.08-02.08.08      CONS      12 vols.
Project: Very close to the national parks of Spessart and Vogelsberg is the municipality of Nidderau with its historical centre.
Work: Here you will rearrange the area of the city’s youth centre “Blauhaus (blue house)”. For the formation of tidier grassland, we will take care of the wild growing area, plant new plants. Your help is also needed for rearranging the school yard. First, you will arrange the area and then create playgrounds for kids.
Accommodation: You’ll stay in the youth centre “Blauhaus”
Catering is done by the group
Location: Nidderau is located in Hesse, 20km from Frankfurt, 70km from Mainz and 85km from Fulda. The city offers a variety of cultural and free time activities. In the youth centre you can play billiards and there is an adventure swimming-pool. There are very good travel connections to Frankfurt a. M., Mainz, Fulda and possibilities for trips to the river Rhine and to Spessart or Vogelsberg.
Train-station: Nidderau
Airport: Frankfurt a.M.
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8353      Krefeld      19.07.08-09.09.08      CONS      15 vols.
Project: In the outside of Krefeld, a children’s day-care centre should be renovated and rearranged with your help.
Work: Together with the employees of the green-area office you will do different tasks in the outside area. You will build a new water-play-area; install two pergolas and help constructing a by-pass, so that the children will have more space. Additionally, you will redecorate the inside walls and make the entrance of the day-care more attractive by building variable walls.
Accommodation: You’ll stay in a children day-care centre.
Catering: done by the group
Location: Krefeld is in North Rhine-Westphalia, 20km from Duesseldorf, 60km from Cologne. The city offers an interesting cultural and free time programme. There are possibilities for nice trips to the Lower Rhine, to Cologne, to Bonn, to Duesseldorf or the Ruhr Region. There is also a large swimming pool, a billiard-café and bowling.
Train-station: Krefeld
Airport: Duesseldorf
Age: 16-26

ijgd 8367      Bielefeld      02.08.08-23.08.08      CONS      15 vols.
Project: the municipality of Bielefeld will need your help with the renovation and reorganisation of a playground.
Work: In order to create a safer place for kids to play in, your tasks will be to repair old play equipment, renew old footpaths and install new equipment. Some of this work is physically demanding, but we would like you to be creative: you’ll have the opportunity to use paint and your imagination. The camp will finish with a big re-opening party organised by the group, which will include parents and children from the surrounding area.
Accommodation: In the “Niedermuehlenkamp “Youth Centre
Catering is done by the group.
Location: North-Rhine Westphalia; 50 km east of Muenster, Hanover – 80 km. Bielefeld is a university town with many cultural and free time facilities. Nearby  is the Teutoburg Forest is great for hiking, and Hanover, Muenster and Dortmund are within easy reach by public transport.
Train station: Bielefeld
Airport: Hanover
Age: 16 - 26

ijgd 8361      Duelmen      09.08.08.-30.08.08      CONS      12 vols
Project: Together with the employees and participants of t the youth development program a playground should be build in a small park.
Work: Your task will be to prepare the grounds and have the opportunity to design and create some exciting toy equipment and “play sculptures” from tree trunks, to give the site some artistic flair.
Accommodation: You’ll stay at a guesthouse for young people.
Catering is done by the group.
Location: in North Rhine-Westphalia; 30 km western of