Collect memories – your international summer on Mosel
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16-26
Ages
Dates
🗓️
04/7/26 - 25/7/26
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Location
Germany
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Max Volunteers
16
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£250 for adults
Cost Range
🏷️
Project Type
Environment & Animals
Vegetarian Food
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Yes
ijgd 26336
Project Code
🆔
Nearest Airport/Station
✈️
Frankfurt international
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Traben-Trarbach via Bullay
The project
You support the youth department of the city of Nürtingen with several projects in different parts of the city. Creativity and manual skills are required.
Old Town Festival
A street festival is taking place in Nürtingen's old town. You will be busy for three days: Day 1: Setting up. Day 2: Helping out at the festival. Day 3: Taking down.
Sheep pasture
In Nürtingen, there is an association called Wiesenliebe e.V., which grazes seven therapy sheep on orchard meadows near your accommodation. You will carry out a re-grazing campaign, for which you will prepare a new pasture. This means clearing areas for the fence, putting up fences, moving pasture fencing equipment, etc. Afterwards, the sheep will be taken to the new pasture on foot. Finally, you will have a barbecue on the new area together with the association members.
Landscape conservation
Under the guidance of the Swabian Alb Association (your accommodation host), you will carry out various landscape conservation measures.
Graffiti wall
The back of a building on the Neckar River is declared a free graffiti wall. You will paint the area white and organise a small inauguration party.
Construction trailer
You repaint the wooden surface of a construction trailer used for art therapy work.
Beautification in the Zizishausen district
There are a few creative beautification projects in the Zizishausen district. Among other things, you will design a signpost to your countries and set it up in front of the town hall. You will also saw and paint flowers and figures out of wood and then set them up throughout the town. In addition, you will carry out a few repair works: the seating at the public barbecue area and a few pieces of public fitness equipment need to be restored.
Accommodation & food
The Swabian Alb Association is nice enough to let you use its building on a hill in the Neckarhausen district. From the spacious grounds with an open-air stage, you have a wonderful panoramic view of the Swabian Alb. On the first floor you can use the large, light-flooded dining room. Behind it is a professional kitchen with a catering dishwasher. In the basement is the room where around ten people in your group can sleep on 10 cm thick insulating mats. If you wish, you can also lay out your mats in the garden in tents, in the shed or under the canopy. Please bring your own sleeping bag and pillow. We will set up an outdoor shower for you in a shower tent. Of course with hot water.
You cook together. You will be provided with money for shopping. Vegetarian or vegan meals are possible. Please indicate any intolerances when registering.
Location & leisure
Nürtingen has about 41,000 inhabitants and is located on the river Neckar near the Swabian Alb. You will be provided with well-maintained bicycles. Ride through the beautiful landscape, to nearby lakes, along the Neckar or explore the biosphere area at the foot of the Alb. You can reach the outdoor pool in eleven minutes, the city center in eight. There is a direct train connection to the nearby student city of Tübingen with its numerous half-timbered houses. The train takes half an hour to the state capital Stuttgart. Many possibilities await you there: Museums, galleries, shopping, big zoo, planetarium, theater, clubs, vaudeville, etc. The city of Nürtingen invites you to various activities. Among them is an excursion with minibuses. You will visit a castle on the Swabian Alb and make a cave crossing. You will also meet young people from Nürtingen. The members of the youth council are eager to meet you. One evening you are invited to a barbecue in the youth center Roßdorf.
Project host
Ijgd, organising volunteer service programmes since 1949. They are an independent, non-profit association for international youth work, a recognised independent youth welfare organisation, and one of the largest and oldest workcamp organisations in Germany. Each year, they assist around 4,000 young people into volunteer work in Germany and abroad. They give them the opportunity to be creative, act in solidarity, take responsibility for themselves, and discover their own true potential and strengths.
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