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Workcamp Details

Language festival

Dates to be confirmed - apply later

Camp code:

RU-SOD 12.3

Country:

Russian Federation

Start Date:

23 Oct 2018

End Date:

29 Oct 2018

Topic:

12: Art, culture and local history

Work Types:

Festival

Number of volunteers:

Free places for Males:

Free places for Females:

Free places last update:

02 Feb 2018

International age:

18 - 99

National age:

16 - 99

Extra fee to be paid in the hosting country:

0.00

Spoken Language:

English

Description: This international language festival is organized by our project partner – NGO “Youth Esperanto Association of the Chuvash Republic”. This year it will be the 18th Festival in Cheboksary. The main aim of the Festival is to draw attention to language diversity and emphasize its value. The Festival is an important and big event in the republic where about 1000 participants of different ages take part every year.

Type of Work: Helping in preparing the festival; Presenting the volunteers’ culture and languages during the festival; Taking part in the festival activities; The work is done 8 hours a day, one day off per week, for the days off there are planned sightseeing excursions.

Study Theme: The volunteers will have the chance to learn the local culture and local language by visiting small ethnic villages. Cheboksary is the capital of Chuvash Republic and here we have two official languages Russian and Chuvash.

Accommodation: The volunteers will be hosted in host families and youth hostels. The food will be provided. No sleeping bags are needed.

Language: Esperanto, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian etc.

Requirements: The volunteers are expected to have some experience of organizing activities, intercultural experience is very welcome. We also expect the volunteers to be open-minded, flexible, tolerant to differences in cultures, backgrounds, nationalities, races. Knowledge of Esperanto required.

Approximate Location: The workcamp is situated in Russia, Cheboksary. The volunteers will need to fly (or arrive with any other transport: train, bus etc.) to Moscow and take the train from Moscow to Cheboksary. In Cheboksary the volunteers will be met by the Russian volunteers and move altogether to the workcamp.

Notes: If you would be interested in learning some Russian before you start the camp, you can come to the project several days before the start of the camp. Our partner – NGO “Language for success” – organizes high quality intensive Russian language course for our volunteers. The price of individual language course: 50 Euros a day including 4 hours of studies and accommodation in a hostel or host family.

Organization Description: “Sodrujestvo” is an organization for volunteers which was founded in 2003. The organization is located in Cheboksary, the capital of the Republic of Chuvashia and in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. Chuvashia and Tatarstan are the small local ethnicities in the Volga region 600 km to the east from Moscow. Cheboksary is a provincial city, and although Chuvashia has a long and rich history, not so many foreigners come here. That’s why there are not a lot of possibilities for youngsters to meet other cultures and have international friends. Sodrujestvo is trying to fill this gap. Every year volunteers from all over the world regardless of gender, culture, nationality or religion are invited to participate in the organized projects. What does Sodrujestvo? We make short and long-term cultural and social projects for the local community, for example: intercultural summer camps for kids in Chuvashia a weekly intercultural communication club in the local orphanages a weekly intercultural communication clubs for secondary school kids ecological projects in the Volga region Sodrujestvo is also a hosting organization for long term foreign volunteers The philosophy of Sodrujestvo Our projects are very practical, based on the philosophy of ‘Deeds, not Words’. This way we try to make small but useful changes in our local community. The main goal of all our projects is that every participant can get new specific knowledge about some actual topics and improve skills which are important in life. We don’t preach but try to break down prejudices and stereotypes by living and working together with people of different backgrounds. This way, the participants can experience a world of respect and understanding, in which conflicts are solved without violence. We promote volunteering, positive attitude and optimism. Our special attention goes also to environmental respect, which is a critical problem in the Volga region.