Workcamp Details - SCI International Voluntary Projects

Live Big in a Tiny House (Glücksburg near Baltic Sea)

Camp code:

DE-SCI 11.52

Country:

Germany

Start Date:

Jul 15, 2023

End Date:

Aug 04, 2023

Topic:

11: Climate and sustainable lifestyle

Special Topics:

COM_SCIOPS_CAMPS_NO_MORE_WAR_LABEL
Climate for Peace Programme

Options:

Mixed Age Camp

Work Types:

Construction / Manual / Study, discussion, research

Number of volunteers:

Number of places still available:

Free places last update:

Jul 12, 2023

International age:

18 - 99

National age:

16 - 99

Required Language:

English

Child friendly camp

Yes (Minimum age: 0)

Description: Build a Tiny House together with other volunteers and learn more about minimalist lifestyles. The Tiny House will later be used as an information mobile on sustainable housing and renewable energy. At the end of the work camp, the participants may have acquired some skills to plan their own Tiny House. The individual building steps will be explained and put into practise. Depending on work phases there are parallel maintenance activities in the climate park of the centre: the work camp will take place on the grounds of the artefact climate park https://www.artefact.de/, where visitors explore the "fossil" greenhouse effect at more than forty stations and develop ideas for building, living and working in a "sustainable" way.

Type of Work: Under expert guidance, the house walls are manufactured and installed, windows and doors are built-in and the roof construction is built. The wooden post-and-beam walls are insulated and covered with wood on the inside and outside. Other work on the grounds of the "Climate Park" visitor centre: woodwork, painting, gardening and other maintenance work.

Study Theme: Tiny House movement, minimalism, sustainability, alternative lifestyles, climate change, use of renewable energies

Accommodation: In your own tent (please bring with you a tent, a sleeping mat and a thick sleeping bag); on the site of the Climatepark, toilet (interesting compost toilets) and shower (experience solar shower) available. You will cook together in the recreation and cooking building of the Africa House in the nature experience room.

Language: English

Requirements: Interest in manual work as well as motivation and willingness to do physical work. Previous knowledge of crafts is wanted.

Approximate Location: Glücksburg, near Flensburg at Baltic Sea.

Notes: Please bring work shoes and robust work clothes! The work can exceed 5-6 hours on individual days, for which there is compensatory time off.

INCOMING FEE for volunteers applying via partner organisations and contacts of SCI: https://sci-d.de/incomingfee

Organization Description: This workcamp is organized by the German branch of Service Civil International (SCI). SCI Germany was founded in 1946 and is approved as a non-profit organisation. We are one of the oldest peace and volunteer organisations. SCI Germany aims to promote peace, non-violence, international solidarity, social justice, sustainable development and cross-cultural exchange through international voluntary work. We cooperate with a network of branches and partners in more than 90 countries. Every year, SCI Germany organizes about 50 international workcamps in Germany.

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