volunteer shorttime or longtime in the green heart of Germany, with woodworks, gardening, household-activities, artprojects or homepageworks

Description

+++urgent projects in autumn 2019 you can choose+++
- producing of poster-collages for non-profit nature-camps and hang them up + postcards/flyer
- painting an indoor-bathing-tube with acryl-colors
- brushing the garden from colourful leaves
- collecting / sawing heaps of birch-firewood for the heatable bathtube and sauna
- plumber-works (if you have the skills)
- checking/preparing/gardencleaning of alternative flats in the city-center of Chemnitz, esp. in case you are interessted to live there and/or run a hostel / small stage / worldmusic-pub / creative clothes-store there from spring 2020
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This is an opportunity for people who want to spent SHORTER or LONGER time in the beautiful, hilly nature in the middle of Saxony (middle-east-Germany) and joining freethinker-projects (which can also be hard work :-)

HELPING here means being in your "own bungalow or room" much of the time (simple holiday-bungalow, beautiful nature-near garden), but we also offer the opportunity to travel to other places nearby and help there for some days too. This means you have to be FLEXIBLE concerning work and time.

Near the old heritage village of Koessern nearby Colditz-Castle (Leipzig 40km, Dresden 70km, Berlin 180km, railwaystation 5km), right in a forest with a lot of birds, next to a lake and a small river with fishes a beaver.


TARGET AUDIENCE
Volunteers
off-year / off-time
craftsmen on "off-tour"
school-leaver or -dropout
Students / Trainee / Alumni, in particular engeneering, the arts, fine arts, architecture, archeologie, arts & crafts, human & veterinary medicine .......
dropouts; people with alternative living-concept;
on the way to "find yourself"
singles, couples, "easy-going" families (of each age / origin)

Type of help

Gardening
Building
Babysitting / child care
General Maintenance
Cooking / shopping
Other
Help with Eco project
Help in the house
Art project
Help with Computers / internet

Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

in general:
- experience (as far as possible) independend- / self-supporter- / offgrid- / simple living- lifestyle
- acquire skills in forestry-, gardening-, building-, tool-handling- & media-supply techniques
- practice english and/or german language
- join ageless music (Folk, Pagan, Rock, Blues, Reggae etc.)
- explore rich natural & cultural landscape nearby & architecture
- may meet other volunteers from all over the world (teambuilding AND boosting of independent action)

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especially, if you join the building-projects:
- theoretical education in engineering-/architecture-disciplines (analysing of structure & damages, systematically marking…)
AND
- practical exercises (working with traditional building-materials wood,nails,shingles,limewash / timber-joints, / handling of tools, hoists & lashing straps / generall tricks with packing & storing)
trainee-certificate or officially assessment possible

Help

SHORT TIME 28.10.2019 - November 2019 and 2020 (stay 1-12 weeks):
(longtime-options see below)

For short-time-help you can choose one part of the following parts A, B, C, D, E or combine several

A) garden-works (no skills necessary, but will and toughness, doesn't matter if man or woman)
- winning already cutted tree-branches out of a forest nearby, saw them to firewood and store them
- bringing leaves from the garden to the compost by wheelbarrow
- rearrange an area, influenced by a flood of the bordering river (sawing & stacking wood, hewing grass, raking leaves, ground-leveling)
- Shaping places for tiny houses / off-grid-living

B) building-works (experiences/skills helpful, but not mandatory, doesn't matter if man or woman)
- tiler-works to renew a 5qm bathhroom-floor
- plumber-skills wouldn't be bad for that task too
- creative renovating of a bungalow for simple living
- help with presaving of oher historical heritage-houses (some days in towns nearby, then comming back to nature)
- simple scaffolder roof- and cleaning- works

C) artworks (creativity and experiances with artisitic paintworks or graphic-design necessary)
- shape an old, ordniary enamel-bathtube to one with natural painting-motives (abrasion- & water-resistant colours)
- creating the graphic-design for a new nature-homepage
- creating a new logo for a worldwide free-thinker-, education- and naturetravelling-project
- a wide range of possibilities waits for you in the art-sector - here, there and everywhere

D) household-activities
- buying and preparing of meals for 2-6 people
- collecting strawberries, apples and other fruits/vegetables/herbs for completing daily meals and storage
- make the laundry (not much) and clean the house (not much)
- after admission: heating the outside-hotpot (daily), cleaning and refilling the hotpot and heating the sauna (weekly)

E) homepage (computer-skills nessessary)
- building up e new nature-homepage (responsive CMS, SEO)
- train the host for hosting this homepage
- other computer- and network-related works


LONGTIME EVERY YEAR
(stay 1-6 months in warm season up to several years:
reliability, kindness, diligence, self-reliance neccessary; other skills not mandatory; drivers-license, if you have):

organisational maintaining of independent nature-activities for young people (non-profit-project, supplying equipment & food, picking up from the destination etc.)

maintaining house, yurt, boats (handing over, subsequent cleaning)

and/or

creative renovating of a bungalow for simple living

and/or

help with presaving of historical heritage-houses and with the rise/care of a culture-centre
for "strong" people (doesn't matter if man or woman) with interest in historical buildings & construction work (e.g. as an University-Laboratory, Internship).
This special projects are in the historic city-centers of Chemnitz and Annaberg Buchholz (Saxony) and will lead to maintainig-needs in a curlture-/worlmusic-pub (Bar etc.) and a "stage" for artists and bands

facultative: renovating a boat, renovating a caravan, repairing bikes, maintaining equipment, simple medical help for humans & animals; if wished completion with other works possible

Languages spoken

english, german

Accommodation

your "own", simple bungalow (ca. 40m², "GDR-style") with proper meadow- & forest-ground (600m², wild strawberries, grapes; cultivating of vegatables & herbs possible) nearby Thümmlitz-Lake/-Creek

forest-hiking-paths, amazing emerald-swimming-lake (insider-hind) & canoeing-river Mulde quite near (100m-1km)

mini-kitchen (small cooking-stove, sink);
2 living-/eating-/sleeping-rooms 2-3 pers. each;
flushing-toilet (inside flat);
cellar with food-depot;
big patio (ca. 60m², western orientation, nice sunsets!) partly with roof;
simple Sauna, Scandinavian hot-tub (free, to be wood-heated);
solar-shower (garden);
free parking-space;
sand box, small playing-pool;
220V (billing according to consumption); WLAN possible;
in warm season living in caravan or yurt possible (20-60%);
If you want, you can also pitch your tent in the garden;

durable basic-food is provided/payed (eating individual or together)

What else ...

Possibilities for your SPARE TIME

Visit the surrounding nature, take a canoe for paddling, go fishing, horseback-riding, hiking, biking.
Visit old castles and museums.
Citytrips to Leipzig, Chemnitz, Dresden, Berlin/Potsdam can be started from the near train station (10 min via bike). In Chemnitz are possibilities to stay for free for some nights at other projects of the host (e.g. go for Live-Bands or Party).

and/or

just relax on the pation, in the bathing-tub (warm or cold), in the sauna or in the gras between butterflies and birds under a "green roof" of oak-trees.
eating individual or together: durable basic-food is provided / the tab-water has drinking-quality


PLACE / ARRIVAL
Central-Eastern Germany,
from Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, Prague (Itntl. airports)
take Flixbus/Train to Tanndorf / Saxony (best via Leipzig)


TO ORGANISE / BRING WITH BY YOURSELF
arrival/departure;
if necessary fresh / special / luxury food;
tough footwear, 2 pair of gloves, clothing of the season; sleeping-bag/1 bed sheet/small pillow, personal belongings

A little more information

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  Internet access

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  Limited internet access

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  We have pets

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  We are smokers

How many Workawayers can stay?

More than two

Hours expected

Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week