Els camps de treball en família permeten la participació d’infants i joves menors de 16 anys que vulguin ser part d’un voluntariat transformador
Els camps de treball no només són per joves o adults sinó que també n’hi ha que donen cabuda a famílies. En aquests camps, infants i joves menors de 16 anys poden participar-hi acompanyats de les seves tutores legals. Per trobar-los, només cal que posis el filtre “camps que accepten infants” a l’apartat d’opcions del buscador de camps d’SCI Internacional.
La quota de participació en un camp és de 150€ que inclouen els 100€ en despeses de gestió, formació prèvia i assegurança i els 50 € de la quota anual de sòcia de l’SCI Catalunya. Aquí tens tots els passos a seguir per inscriure’t a un camp de treball. Abans de participar en qualsevol camp de treball és obligatori anar a alguna de les formacions prèvies. Enguany són els dies 24 i 25 de maig a Mura i el 5 i 6 de juliol a Fogars de Montclús.
Important: el camp no tindrà cap cost per les persones menors de 16 anys, que tampoc hauran de participar de la formació de voluntàries.
Aquests són alguns dels camps disponibles per a menors però pots consultar-ne més al buscador de camps d’SCI Internacional:
ESTONIA: Kingu Organic Farm 1 (12th – 24th May)
Description: Kingu Organic farm is a berry, fruit and vegetable micro-farm in the South Estonia. The main berry crops are raspberries, various currants, gooseberries, Japanese quince, garlic and rhubarb. Everything is grown in an environmentally sustainable way using straw and hay. The farm promotes a sustainable lifestyle, and this camp is proposed for volunteers who appreciate and share its values, want to learn more and to help hardworking people in countryside.
Type of Work: The main task is harvesting various berries and vegetables such as rhubarb, currants, raspberries, Japanese quince, then helping with juice making and products packaging. But there is also weed control and fertilization with mulch in plantations, mowing grass, cutting branches, removal of bushes and wood chipping, assistance in the construction of various small buildings, vegetable beds and other necessary structures on the site, and painting as well.
ITALY: Rebuilding Utopia (10th – 17th July)
Description: La Città dell’Utopia, a project by SCI Italy in Rome’s San Paolo district, is a social laboratory for active citizenship and local development. For 20 years, volunteers and workcamps have maintained and renewed the space. Due to its age, constant renovation is needed. The project hosts seminars, workshops, festivals, and events to connect the local community with international participants. This workcamp focuses on restoring and improving the site while fostering learning and community bonds.
Type of Work: Restoration activities at La Città dell’Utopia focus on revitalizing its historic building and outdoor spaces. Volunteers will paint and repair furniture in the kitchen, repaint the office, clear out the cave, and improve the garden and common areas. Additional tasks include maintaining shared spaces and making the environment more functional and inviting.
SWEDEN: Storholmen Viking Village – Open-air Museum (15th July – 4th August)
Description: Storholmen Archelogical open air museum is a museum where we focus on the Viking age. Visitors are encouraged to take part in activities that demonstrate how everyday life was led in the Viking Age. At Storholmen the Viking age never ends. Therefore, we try to keep the Viking age spirit which means we wear Viking age clothes during all times in the Village (even when the museum is closed) and avoid modern technology in open spaces.
Type of Work: Work includes guiding visitors, showing/working with ancient handicraft and working in café. This will include activities with children. Thus it is a big advantage if the volunteers enjoy working with children.
SWITZERLAND: Pro Terra Engiadina (27th July– 9th August)
Description: The Foundation Pro Terra Engiadina (PTE) is a cross-sector foundation which aims to maintain and promote the natural and cultural landscape, as well as biodiversity in the Engadin valley. Given its involvement with many sectors, PTE integrates ecological connectivity into the spatial planning which is one of its strengths.
Type of Work: The focus is on the maintenance and promotion of biodiversity in dry meadows, peatlands or community gardens. Other work depends on weather conditions: clearing shrubbery from dry meadows, peatlands and along cultural structures; collecting stones to build cairns or dry-stone walls; retrieving branches and stacking them into piles; maintaining water streams; help in community or school gardens, participating in a Littering Project by collecting litter in an area along the main river in Engadin, the Inn River.
SWITZERLAND: Mountain Farm Loasa Cooperative (3rd – 9th August)
Description: Alpe Loasa is a full-year organic mountain farm in southern Switzerland, at the Italian border. The farm is remote from cities or villages, accessible only by walking or horse riding, with frugal accommodation. The many works are usually done by the tenant and the cooperative by hand. Many helping people are therefore very valuable. In return of the work and the remoteness of the site, we offer an intense community experience.
Type of Work: Various tasks are pending: Haymaking, installing cross-cuts (rain gutters), installing new stairs, renovating the house yard. Work tasks can be rotated among volunteers and need to be planned spontaneously according to the weather conditions.
TOGO: Collection of Tales : Cultural and Educational Animations (10th – 29th August)
Description: This summer, ASTOVOT is organising an international project to provide socio-educational activities and produce a collection of stories in the village of Agomé-Tomégbé in Togo. The aim of the project is to mobilise children and the local community around the importance of culture, education and the preservation of oral heritage.
Type of Work: Storytelling workshops and story collection, animation workshops, training in socio-educational leadership, story writing and editing, creation of a collection of stories, and storytelling shows.
ESTONIA: Family Camp at Kiidi Farm (11th – 17th August)
Description: ProjectFor a decade EstYES promotes camps where parents and children can participate together. The idea is to create a kind of temporary community where adults and children can share the ideas of voluntary activity for the benefit of rural area. The schedule of the camp allows adults to act as volunteers like in any other voluntary camp working 4-5 hours a day for practical tasks. Meanwhile children work as well, in the sense that they take part in the activities helping parents and sharing easy tasks with them.
Type of Work: WorkVarious works in the forest: cutting unwanted trees and bushes, burning old tree brunches and brushwood, preparing firewood for heating the farm; also, some odd jobs around the farm buildings as well as general household work. Most of the work will be outdoors. There can be also some light maintaining works indoors if weather is too rainy.
Description: The T.E.A. Project Centre for Children’s Empowerment supports disadvantaged children & young people from poor tea plantation communiTEAs. Extending support to children nationally and grassroots NGO’s, education service providers, orphanages and government schools. The T.E.A. Project develops ambition, practical skills, knowledge and important opportuniTEAs for underprivileged children and their communiTEAs.
Type of Work: Preparation of vegetable beds and nursery beds for organic farming, repairing the water source, the fence and the wall cupboards in the centre, building outdoor kitchen, cleaning outside well and Teaching English.
CZECH REPUBLIC: Back to the Nature for Families (23th – 30th August)
Description: The workcamp takes place in a remote but exceptionally beautiful, hilly area of the Bohemian Forest, near the western border of the Czech Republic. The campsite is isolated from civilization volunteers are welcome to try a basic and active lifestyle in the forest. The main goal is to help maintain meadows in a nature-protected area, maintain the campsite and enjoy nature.
Type of Work: Children and parents will work together when possible (e.g. helping with cooking, collecting wood, harvesting vegetables and gardening). Work will be organized in two groups. The first one will be working in a nature reserve located 3km away from the campsite, their work will consist of mowing grass, raking and collecting grass. The second group will be working on the campsite preparing food, collecting wood, doing maintenance tasks or working in the nearby forest.
SWITZERLAND: Maintain Vitality of Alpine Biodiversity (21st – 28th September)
Description: The Alpes Vivantes association is involved in concrete maintenance activities in the Alpes Vaudoises such as cutting invasive species and green alders bushes. The long-term goal is to enhance the biological richness and ecologically valuable habitats of the Alpes Vaudoises, by managing projects within a regional organisation.
Type of Work: The volunteers will take part in a workcamp to remove invasive or undesirable plants such as green alders (Alnus viridis) and to maintain mountain pastures. Thanks to their commitment, the volunteers will work for fragile ecosystems that are home to sensitive species such as black grouse, grouse and deer.
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