RÉPUBLIQUE TCHÈQUE 2008
INEX-SDA + 18 ans
Places
left only for boys on SDA 408 !!!
INEX - Association for Voluntary Activities
(INEX-SDA),
Czech
Republic
.
Goals
of an INEX - SDA camp :
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The
organisation of international voluntary projects incorporating
young people from all over the world.
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Furthering
inter-cultural learning and education.
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Providing
an alternative way of travelling by encouraging active
participation in the places to which people travel.
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Getting
to know different cultures and countries, making new friends.
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Helping
people in places where help is needed, supporting civil
associations and non-governmental organisations.
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Encouraging
an active attitude to responsibility for both the environment
and society.
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The
improvement of teamwork and the organisation of international
voluntary projects.
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Throughout
our projects we aim to revive and re-vitalise the environments
in which they take place.
Mission of INEX-SDA
workcamps :
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We
expect your good will to come and help where help is needed.
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We
don’t expect professionalism but we count with your interest
as for program and individual project.
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We
can not offer you luxurious accommodation and board but basic
conditions corresponding with the focus of the project. We
expect your modesty and tolerance in this point.
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We
make an effort to get in touch with local community and we
suppose you being the main strength in it.
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We
don’t expect you to spend your leisure time lying, sleeping,
sitting in pub every evening or visiting mass-tourist
attractions, but we invite you to spend leisure time actively
and submitted to the aims of the project, too. We offer you to
take part in games, visiting local people, seminars, lectures,
debates with interesting people, walks etc.
Who
we are :
INEX - Association for Voluntary
Service (INEX-SDA)
was established in 1991 on the basis of the activities of the
Centre for International Youth Exchange and Tourism. INEX –SDA
has been designed especially for young people with the aim to
promote international peace, understanding and tolerance. INEX
– SDA is a non-governmental, non-profit-making organisation.
Our activities consist of implementing of the projects based on
voluntary work and on the activities in social, cultural and
environmental fields. These projects were established according
to the topics of our current and developing activities. One of
the important parts is accepting and sending volunteers within
international exchanges. The form of voluntary work includes
mostly short-term camps of voluntary work, known as workcamps
abroad. We are especially trying to increase the co-operation
with places – villages, towns, local authorities and
inhabitants, where our camps were successful.
We
organised 41 workcamps last year. Moreover, we received about
450 volunteers from abroad and we sent about 700 of our
volunteers abroad. Under the program “Youth – European
Voluntary Service” we host long-term volunteers on two
projects. INEX – SDA is approved by the Czech National Agency
as hosting as well as sending organisation.
What
are our objectives?
INEX-SDA wants
to help through its activities especially in these above
mentioned areas. The most important is organising
of both short and long term international publicly beneficial
projects of voluntary work that do not
only help at particular places but also promote the idea of
voluntary service, especially among young people. Part of these
activities is also enabling
young people to participate in similar projects abroad and
to learn about other cultures and opinions. We especially want
to enable young people to learn about other countries and
cultures in a different and deeper way than superficial one as a
tourist. We would like to let them see social and economic
differences and through understanding diversity of the current
world to promote reciprocal tolerance. One of the important
objectives is the above mentioned voluntary help in places where
it is necessary: in small villages, in socially oriented
communities, in the countryside, for the support of development
of country micro-regions. Through our projects, camps of
voluntary work, seminars and meeting people we want to actively
contribute to revitalising particular places and support
activities of citizens and non-governmental organisations in
participating at local affairs.
We join people who are united by the
idea of voluntary contributing to looking after our environment,
our community, promoting the idea of voluntary service, and the
personal active part in publicly beneficial activities.
Basic
general information for workcamp participants
Age
limits
:
minimum age is 18 years,
no maximum age limit (with exceptions)
Length
of INEX workcamps:
±
14 - 21 days
Number
of volunteers per workcamp:
generally 5 - 18
Insurance:
INEX-SDA
does not provide any insurance for participants of the workcamps.
We recommend volunteers to arrange their own insurance and bring
necessary documents. In case of accident INEX – SDA does not
take any responsibility for your harm or damage.
Camp
leadership:
INEX-SDA camps are led by one or two camp-leaders who are
responsible for organising the work and for material equipment
in the camp (board and accommodation) in co-operation with the
co-ordinator of each project. All camp programmes are
created on a democratic basis (by the group itself to decide on
the balance of work, leisure and study activities).
Camp
language:English
Letter
of motivation:
Please send us the letter of motivation for the marked projects! We
need to know :
WHO
is coming so that we can plan a programme according to
participants, WHY
do you want to come to take part in this project, WHAT
are your reasons to come, WHAT
sort of interests and experience do you have so that you can
contribute to the dialogue about stated problems (for example
countryside).
We
have arranged 36 international voluntary projects for the year
2008.
They
are included in four basic programs and each program has its own code number:
v
1."Meetings
in the Countryside" – involving
into the daily life and work of an individual village,
including local and country life problems
v
2."Hands
and History" - help
with the renovation and care of castles, chateaux or small
monuments in the landscape, help with building up experimental
medieval village
v
3."One
to Another" – co-operation
with communities and associations working in the area of
people with special needs, people with drug problems, children
from socially handicapped families
v
4."Bridges
to Nature" – help in the area of care of landscape, protected areas,
environment and public spaces, work in eco-centres
LES
CHANTIERS 2008
Lo =
Location W =
Work A/F =
Accomodation and Food
1. Program
"Meetings in the Countryside"
This programme is based on projects aimed
at helping small communities and developing long-term co-operation
between and within these communities. The programme might
involve volunteers into the daily life of the community or
local NGO and provide an experience of country lifestyles
whilst working for the benefit of the local community. Thanks
to the kind of work, thanks to art
workshops (traditional local craft), seminars,
trips, excursions or games volunteers might get a better
understanding of the local problems (social problems,
eco-environmental and sustainability questions,
self-administration problems) connected with sustainable life style in the countryside and discuss them with
local people.
The
inhabitants of the village have the opportunity to join camp
seminars. This should improve their inner relationship towards
the village and the care for it. The presence of the
volunteers might increase self-confidence of inhabitants,
involves them into solution of problems and brings them new
ideas. The long term aim is to maintain the continuity of care
and interest in places where the camps were successful and
where the inhabitants joined the camp activities.
We
are looking for highly motivated volunteers who are able to
work manually in outdoor conditions.
SDA 110
TvaroZNA
lhota III
06/09 – 24/09
ENVI/CONS
L:
Village lies in White Carpathian (Bile Karpaty mountains) in
South Moravia
border region – region with strong traditional feelings and
habits. There are Protected landscape area around which
protect cultural landscape with mosaics of meadows and forests.
In village itself INEX-SDA has South Moravian Centre (IN Klub)
which run some projects for landscape and local people.
W:
herb collection, collection of special local berries for
making tea and local brandy. Terrain work on outdoors children
centre (farm with sheep).
A/F:
Inklub- INEX – SDA branch in
the village, take your
sleeping bag and light mat! Cooking together, small
kitchen available in the Inklub.
Leisure
activities: Trips, cultura
SDA 111
KOSTELECKE HORKY II
31/08 –12/09 ENVI/CONS
Lo:
Kostelecke Horky in
Eastern Bohemia
is a small village with about 150 inhabitants situated in the
rolling landscape between Divoka and Ticha Orlice rivers. It
is situated in North Eastern Bohemia, not far from the town
Hradec Kralove
,
6 km
from the important railway junction Chocen. You will help
local NGO INEX – SDA Kostelecke Horky.
W:
Autumn gardening, collecting of fruits and preparing products
(apple juice). Work for village benefit: cleaning public
areas, wood making for winter, reconstruction work in a
Centre.
A/F:
Basic
in a former village school (bathroom, hot water available),
sleeping bag needed. Cooking together from local and common
resources in a school kitchen.
2.
Program "Hands and History"
The programme is aimed at promotion of the
co-operation in the field of the protection, care and
documentation of historically significant locations. Included
in this are public places and minor architectural monuments in
the countryside such as crosses, sculptures, monuments. We
also maintain pilgrim roads, and the crosses and monuments
found thereon. We focus on the revitalisation and
commemoration of our heritage and bringing back awareness of
traditions to our modern lives.
Volunteers might meet daily problems connected with the
protection and maintenance of these sites. This programme as
well as the programme MEETINGS IN THE LANDSCAPE stresses a
modest life style, respecting cultural heritage, caring for
the environment and the principals involved in a sustainable
lifestyle.
SDA
212 CIMBURK II
16/08 – 05/09
RENO/ARCH
Lo:
The
Cimburk castle is situated
4 km
from the small town Korycany (
Southern Moravia
, Kromeriz district). It is almost lost in the
forest
of
Chriby
mountains, quite far away from civilization. The castle was
founded in the 14th century and abandoned in 1705.
Now you can find only ruins which form a significant dominant
feature in the lovely countryside.
W:
You will help with securing castle static. The kind of work is
various: clearing walls from vegetation, building walls of
stones, painting, auxiliary building activities, sorting
archaeological material.
A/F:
Right
in the castle bastion (take your sleeping bag). Cooking
together from common resources. The shower is procured at
nearby swimming pool (
2 km
).
Leisure
activities:
Trips to surrounding countryside, visiting of nearby
historical monuments (Velehrad monastery, Buchlov castle),
rock climbing.
Note:
We
are working even if it’s raining. Accommodation is rather
uncomfortable. Good choice for people, who are fond of
medieval kind of living.
3. Program
"One to Another"
This program is designed to help in the
humanitarian and social field. The aim is to provide voluntary
work in the communities and centres that work with and take
care of the handicapped, both adults and children, children
with special needs and learning difficulties, senior citizens
in difficult life situations, drug addicts and former drug
users. These centres are there to help with the re-integration
of those people into normal society. Primarily the program
provides manual work such as the building of new centres,
however, we consider it very important to try to integrate the
volunteers into the everyday life of the centre or community.
With this in mind we expect and accept extremely motivated
people, preferably with previous experience of work in these
fields to take part in this program. The program also makes
space and time for the exchange of experience in the
international context.
The project is based on a co-operation with
authorities of Landscape Protected Areas, centres of
ecological education, ecological farms, which needs to be
supported in the starting point of their existence. The
project is supposed to co-operate with town authorities in the
area of public place management. The programme concept is the
man in the countryside, his position in the midst of nature
linked to the ideas of sustainable growth, organic farming,
environment-friendly lifestyle etc. We aim to educate young
people in ecology, landscape protection and a lifestyle that
is sustainable for nature. The work is placed outdoors – in
the midst of protected areas, in forest etc. Expected kinds of
works are renovation of the tourist paths, fitting desks of
tourist information, planting trees, work with farm animals,
scything protected meadows, care of public spaces and
gardening. The programme includes seminars and discussion on
ecological education, alternative energy sources, landscape
protection and ideas and principals for a sustainable way of
life in the
Czech
Republic
. The programme also offers the opportunity to participate in
the lifestyle and work in
Ashram (a centre for yoga and lifestyle) giving volunteers a
chance to learn about the attitudes to
nature of people living in Ashram and their programme.
4. Program
"Bridges to the Nature"
SDA
407 NOVA ZEME
25/08-12/09 ENVI
Lo.
The camp is organised in co-operation with the association NOVA
ZEME (
New
Land
), which has already implemented many summer activities in this
abandoned (nearest village
11 km
far) but exceptionally beautiful, hilly area of Cesky les (The
Czech Forest) near the western border of our country. The NOVA
ZEME association is Czech partner of
European organisation Eurosolar (www.eurosolar.org). The
camp lies near Tachov, an old town with the population of about
10 000 inhabitants, but the camp place is totally isolated from
civilisation.
W:
Pruning trees and bushes, mowing
grass, fence building, wood preparation, care for the camp
place.
A/F:
In Tee-pees (Indian tents with a
fire place in the middle) on wooden pads. Good sleeping bag is
necessary (nights are cold, in the morning there could be a
temperature around
0°C
), blanket or carry mat, too (! but for your comfort it’s
useful to bring two old sheets which you sew together and then
can be filled with hay). Washing is possible just in a small “bath”, which was made in a
small stream near the camp =
very cold water. Strictly only vegetarian food
and we will prepare it ourselves. The eating set is necessary.
Leisure
activities : Games, performances,
ceramics, woodcarving, trips. An original pottery kiln and an
Indian sauna available. We plan different excursions.
Note:
No drugs, no alcohol allowed!
SDA
408
NOVY PRALES 14/09-28/09
ENVI
Lo:
Mountain
range nearby a famous mountain Jested near
Liberec
city, northern part of the country. Border region with
Poland
, mountains Jizerske hory in a vicinity of
Liberec
city.
Co-operation:
With local NGO Friends for Nature Liberec
W:
Preparation work for tree planting and the planting, cleaning
the forest, moving the wood. The aim is to recover original mixed forests destroyed by
monoculture planting. Be prepare to work in all types of weather.
Water-proof clothes and boots necessary. The
work is manual and rather hard.
A/F:
Probably
tourist hostel – will be specified later in an infosheet.
Leisure
activities: Hiking
in beautiful landscape, trips to
Liberec
and other towns, ecological discussions.
INEX SDA WORKCAMPS 2008 Czech Republic
|
| code |
name |
date |
Female
vacancy |
Male vacancy |
note |
| |
|
| |
|
|
|
| SDA
109 |
DYSINA |
12/08-26/08 |
0 |
0 |
Full |
| SDA
110 |
TVAROZNA LHOTA III |
04/09-22/09 |
0 |
2 |
No Finland, No Poland |
| SDA
111 |
KOSTELECKE HORKY II |
31/08-12/09 |
0 |
2 |
No Poland, No Korea, No Japan |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| SDA
211 |
HARTENBERG IV |
16/08-30/08 |
0 |
1 |
Full |
| SDA
213 |
PUTIM I |
17/08-24/08 |
0 |
0 |
Full |
| SDA
214 |
PUTIM II |
24/08-31/08 |
0 |
0 |
Full |
| |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| SDA
406 |
PALAVA |
16/08-31/08 |
0 |
0 |
Full |
| SDA
408 |
NOVY PRALES |
14/09-28/09 |
0 |
2 |
No Finland, No Korea, No Ukraine,
No Turkey |
|
