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WE ARE DIFFERENT, BUT WE ARE TOGETHER-2 | RU-SOD 7.7 | 2019-07-19 - 2019-08-03 | KIDS, | Age: 17 - 45

 

This camp for Russian kids takes place every year on the bank of the lake Shap in the middle of the pine forest. Foreign volunteers work together with Russian volunteers as counselors and organize cultural and educational activities for the participants (local school kids i aged 8-16).

Work: 1. Making intercultural and educational workshops (about the volunteers native countries, ecology, water resources, human rights, antiracism, etc); 2. Teaching foreign languages to the participants (in the form of playing games, singing songs or improve their language skills through discussions); 3. Organizing some sport activities, strategic games, shows and handycrafts.

Accomodation and food: In the camp for children Shap , in wooden houses; counselors live together in male, female, mixed rooms. Shower and Russian sauna are available all the time. No sleeping bags are needed, food is provided in the local camp cafeteria.

Location: CHEBOKSARY

Location and Leisure: 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 a train from Moscow to Cheboksary. In Cheboksary the volunteers will be met by the Russian volunteers and move altogether to the workcamp. As the workcamp is located in Chuvashia i a small local ethnicity to the east from Moscow i the volunteers will get the chance to learn the culture of this local ethnicity, its history and difference from the Russian Culture.

Train/Bus station: Cheboksary

Requirements: The volunteers are expected to have some experience of working with kids and organizing activities, intercultural experience is very welcome. We especially welcome those who can swim as this season is normally hot here and we swim a lot with the kids. Motivation letter is required. Certificate of no criminal record is required.

Language: eng,rus

Extra Fee: .00 EUR