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MARBURG MARBACH PRO-NF11 XMS 

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 22/12/2019 - 3/01/2020 

 Additional host fee EUR 160

 20 volunteers 

Environmental

Language

Work

will depend on the weather as it is wintertime then. Participants will be doing various manual works to prepare the area around the house of the nature-friends for leisure activities of groups coming from the city. Also in the building itself there will be some renovation work. Time of work will be 5-6 hours daily, excluding Saturday and Sunday.

Accomodation and food

Participants will live in a house with several-bed-rooms, kitchen, bathroom, showers. Cooking, cleaning, shopping etc. will be done by the group itself. Like in each workcamp, accommodation, food and travel-costs for excursions are free as well as materials/copies needed for the lectures.

Location and leisure

Marburg is a historical and picturesque old university town, 100 km north of Frankfurt/Main. It has 82.000 inhabitants, including 25.000 students (from actual 120 different countries). The camp is located approx. 2 km away from the city center.

Project hosted by

Host organization is an environmental organization: Nature Friends of Marburg. They have already been organizing international volunteer camps for many years. It is a workcamp including German language training. The training will be daily, two hours per day (excluding Saturday and Sunday when the group will go on excursions). Bigger groups will be generally divided in two classes, depending on level of knowledge. One topic during the lectures will be intercultural diversities. So, the basis of the lectures will be firstly communication and secondly grammar. The teachers will be native speakers, partly trained teachers, partly students. The language-course won t have the same standard as a professional language-school, but past experiences with this concept have given very good results. In total it will be 18 hours for lectures.

Requirements

As the language course is not for absolute beginners, participants must be able already to communicate in German, at least on a level which ensures simple communication (A2). Participants also must be willing to communicate with each other during the camp in German and not in English or in their own mother tongue for the whole time, not only during the lectures. This is one important part of the concept. Because of the language-course there is an extra-fee of 160,00 EUR to be paid upon arrival. A certificate for participating in the language-course will be given at the end of the camp.