May 31, 2006

11 Volunteer Camps in Denmark

DANEMARCA

MS02 AABENRAA PICNIC HUT AABENRAA 24/06- 08/07
CONS 12 VOLS 18+
WORK: The volunteers will construct a large picnic hut at a nature school in the woods of Aabenraa. The picnic hut will become a place where local youth can meet and enjoy themselves and do various activities close to nature, and even stay overnight. Free time activities could include: Kayaking, seal watching safari, and a visit to a pre-historic Viking centre, visit to Graasten Castle, plus a one-day trip to the
island of Aeroe, which is the site of the world’s largest solar cell energy facility. There will also be time for visits to private Danish homes and shopping in nearby cities.

MS03 VINGSTED IRON AGE VEJLE 08/07–22/07
ARCH/CONS 13 VOLS 18+
WORK: The Vingsted Historical Workshop is a culture activity and teaching centre owned and run the county of Vejle. Vingsted Historical Workshop is divided into two sections – The Iron Age environment and Vingsted Mill, an old restored mill farm. Both are situated in beautiful scenic surroundings. Through the past 27 years a number of houses have been erected in the iron-age environment. Here school classes come to spend a few days living and working like people would have done during the
Iron Age. The Vingsted Mill contains workshops for old crafts like blacksmith, wood, textiles and pottery. The Mill is hosting a range of teaching activities. All activities of the workcamp will take part in the Iron Age environment, where workcamps in 2004 and 2005 have started the reconstruction of a manor farm consisting of 3 great long houses. The workshop will supply the necessary tools and instruction on how to use them and how to do the work. The concrete work projects will be: 1) Furnishing and decorating the living rooms and the gathering/ceremonial room. 2) Making clay walls. 3) Cutting wood for the pillars in the construction. The 3 work projects can be fitted to the participants’ technical skills, physical condition and stamina.

MS04 FAIR TRADE FESTIVAL ROENNE 09/07-23/07
STUDY/FEST 12 VOLS 18+
WORK: Practical assistance with the events (concerts etc.) at a Fair Trade estival at Bornholm, Denmark. The festival started in 2005 and was a major success. Several Danish and foreign world music and rock bands performed, and large sales of fair trade products from esp. Africa were carried out. The camp will contain a major study part about issues of fair trade and trade policies, global justice and the role of labor unions in creating the Danish welfare state, also since the sponsor of
the camp is the large Danish labor union 3F There will be visits to companies, meetings with labor unions and politicians

MS05 NAESBY IRON AGE ODENSE 23/07-05/08
ARCH/CONS 18 VOLS 18+
WORK: The iron-age village is a historical workshop, with reconstructed houses and environment, where schoolchildren come to try their hands at iron-age crafts and to experience what everyday life was like 2000 years ago. We will create a courtyard surrounding the recently constructed smithy, by building fences of intertwined branches. We will also renovate the reconstructed sacrificial place of the village to make it even more historically correct. When possible we will use tools in keeping with the iron-ages. The work will take place under skilled supervision.

MS06 VESTPARK FESTIVAL LANGAA 25/07–
08/08 FEST 10 VOLS 18+
WORK: The Vestpark Festival is a small, non profit, 3 day music festival that takes place every year in the little town Langaa. The music is rock, folk and jazz. Normally there is also a play for the smallest children. During the 3 days 5-600 people visit the festival. This workcamp is organized in cooperation with the group of local volunteers who are organizing the festival. Volunteers will work together with the festival people on preparing the festival area, setting up fences and tents, podium etc. During the festival they will take part in cooking, selling
tickets, helping the bands, cleaning etc. and cleaning and storing the equipment after the festival. During the 3-day festival, working hours will be long. The other working days the work will be 3-4 hours, and there will be various social events, such as tours to see the surroundings, nearby cities and museums; a football match (Team the World vs. Langaa) and canoeing trips.

MS01 TINGBJERG KIDS COPENHAGEN
23/06-07/07 KIDS/SOCI 8 VOLS 18+
WORK: Many of the residents in the Tingbjerg-Utterslevhuse area are children (33%) with a non-Danish cultural background (Somalia, Iraq, Pakistan, Yugoslavia, Morocco, and Lebanon). Most of the children come from families with unemployed parents that speak poor Danish. These families have no network and very little connection to Danish society in general. The children do not belong to a peer-group and drift around, especially during the summer vacation. They miss the opportunities to join
networks and groups that could create the references they need to really become integrated in the community. We think that the ethnic diversity is a resource and we want to highlight that in this project. The aim is to give the children shared experiences and insight into games, music, food and movement from different cultures. To give the participants an opportunity to discover what they have in common and how they are different through working together and to form a network outside school. Furthermore, many of these children desperately need positive
interaction with adults. They need to experience that grown-ups can be there for them. We don't expect their lives to change overnight, but we do expect them to get a more nuanced picture of grown-ups. After the last two years of summer activities, we have experienced closer contact and the children have been more open to taking part in different activities.

MS02 AABENRAA PICNIC HUT AABENRAA 24/06- 08/07
CONS 12 VOLS 18+
WORK: The volunteers will construct a large picnic hut at a nature school in the woods of Aabenraa. The picnic hut will become a place where local youth can meet and enjoy themselves and do various activities close to nature, and even stay overnight. Free time activities could include: Kayaking, seal watching safari, and a visit to a pre-historic Viking centre, visit to Graasten Castle, plus a one-day trip to the
island of Aeroe, which is the site of the world’s largest solar cell energy facility. There will also be time for visits to private Danish homes and shopping in nearby cities.

MS03 VINGSTED IRON AGE VEJLE 08/07–22/07
ARCH/CONS 13 VOLS 18+
WORK: The Vingsted Historical Workshop is a culture activity and teaching centre owned and run the county of Vejle. Vingsted Historical Workshop is divided into two sections – The Iron Age environment and Vingsted Mill, an old restored mill farm. Both are situated in beautiful scenic surroundings. Through the past 27 years a number of houses have been erected in the iron-age environment. Here school classes come to spend a few days living and working like people would have done during the
Iron Age. The Vingsted Mill contains workshops for old crafts like blacksmith, wood, textiles and pottery. The Mill is hosting a range of teaching activities. All activities of the workcamp will take part in the Iron Age environment, where workcamps in 2004 and 2005 have started the reconstruction of a manor farm consisting of 3 great long houses. The workshop will supply the necessary tools and instruction on how to use them and how to do the work. The concrete work projects will be: 1) Furnishing and decorating the living rooms and the gathering/ceremonial room. 2) Making clay walls. 3) Cutting wood for the pillars in the construction. The 3 work projects can be fitted to the participants’ technical skills, physical condition and stamina.

MS04 FAIR TRADE FESTIVAL ROENNE 09/07-23/07
STUDY/FEST 12 VOLS 18+
WORK: Practical assistance with the events (concerts etc.) at a Fair Trade Festival at Bornholm, Denmark. The festival started in 2005 and was a major success. Several Danish and foreign world music and rock bands performed, and large sales of fair trade products from esp. Africa were carried out. The camp will contain a major study part about issues of fair trade and trade policies, global justice and the role of labor unions in creating the Danish welfare state, also since the sponsor of
the camp is the large Danish labor union 3F There will be visits to companies, meetings with labor unions and politicians

MS05 NAESBY IRON AGE ODENSE 23/07-05/08
ARCH/CONS 18 VOLS 18+
WORK: The iron-age village is a historical workshop, with reconstructed houses and environment, where schoolchildren come to try their hands at iron-age crafts and to experience what everyday life was like 2000 years ago. We will create a courtyard surrounding the recently constructed smithy, by building fences of intertwined branches. We will also renovate the reconstructed sacrificial place of the village to make it even more historically correct. When possible we will use tools in keeping with the iron-ages. The work will take place under skilled supervision.

MS06 VESTPARK FESTIVAL LANGAA 25/07–
08/08 FEST 10 VOLS 18+
WORK: The Vestpark Festival is a small, non profit, 3 day music festival that takes place every year in the little town Langaa. The music is rock, folk and jazz. Normally there is also a play for the smallest children. During the 3 days 5-600 people visit the festival. This workcamp is organized in cooperation with the group of local volunteers who are organizing the festival. Volunteers will work together with the festival people on preparing the festival area, setting up fences and tents, podium etc. During the festival they will take part in cooking, selling
tickets, helping the bands, cleaning etc. and cleaning and storing the equipment after the festival. During the 3-day festival, working hours will be long. The other working days the work will be 3-4 hours, and there will be various social events, such as tours to see the surroundings, nearby cities and museums; a football match (Team the World vs. Langaa) and canoeing trips.

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Pentru voluntarii din Bucuresti, inscrierile se vor face exclusiv la adresa workcamps.bucuresti@yap.ro, iar regulamentul de inscriere semnat se scaneaza si se trimite prin email sau se depune personal la sediul organizatiei Leaders din Str. Popa Tatu nr. 3, persoana de contact: Ioana Nicolau.

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