The door to Europe - level 2

The project will take place in Klimontow, a small village of 400 inhabitants on the border of three regions/voivodeship: swietokrzyskie, malopolskie, slaskie. The idea of working in a rural area is the base of the project.

The volunteers tasks are shared between three areas:
1. Work connected with the local community
This will include:
- organizing small fests in various places in the region in cooperation with the local organizations and cultural institutions. volunteers will use the Foundation’s car – EuroCar – for the purpose to reach the villages all over the region
- organizing meetings and workshops in schools and kindergartens; topics will cover such issues as tolerance and openness to diversity. Some workshops should also deal with the immigration crisis in Europe to fight prejudice among youth. Volunteers can also prepare workshops and meetings on topic that they find interesting for them.
- providing guidance and support for local youth who would like to take part in international youth exchanges or volunteering (EVS or other opportunities).
2. Work connected with the Foundation’s building and area around.
This will include:
- taking care of the garden: weeding, planting, watering, sowing, harvesting, etc. - the garden will not only have decorative function. We have created a permaculture garden. It produces vegetables for the use of all CampoSfera inhabitants.
- organizing the area according to the season: mowing, snow removal, raking leaves, etc.
- works connected with some finishing work in the building: painting walls, drilling, nailing, cutting, furniture renovation, etc. - the building offers a workshop with many tools which our volunteers use for their creative work (instrument creation, making wood furniture, renovating old furniture, handcraft).

3. Helping with the events organized and hosted by the Foundation
Important part of the Foundation tasks are international and local projects happening in CampoSfera. We host groups of youth exchanges, training (international and for Polish participants), festivals. During those events we involve volunteers into work such as:
- Cooking for the group,
- Cleaning after the group,
- Organizing free time for the group
- Arranging the space for the events
If it is possible, volunteers may be included in workshops happening during the events.
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Volunteer’s profile:
The volunteers we would like to host should first of all be willing to live and work in the rural area and not be afraid of physical and outdoor works. We would especially welcome people who are interested in ecology, permaculture, gardening, and alternative forms of social coexistence (for example cohabitating). Our main concern is that the volunteers will find the project interesting, personally developing, fruitful it terms of knowledge and skills and simply satisfying. In our opinion, people with the above mentioned features and interest would feel most fulfilled.

Time and place of venue:
March-October 2018, Klimontów (about 60 km from Cracow). The village has frequent and cheap connection to the cities of Cracow (760 000 inhabitants, 1 h by train) and Kielce (200 000, 1h train). In April-September we host international groups from all over Europe and volunteers from all over the world through other volunteering programs and internet portals such as workaway.info.
Accomodation:
The volunteers will be accommodated in double room in the school building rented and renovated by CampoSfera. The volunteers will have access to kitchen, bathroom, chill-out room. The board members live above the school building in an apartment, where organization meetings may take place.
Contact: jakubkubiec@gmail.com, www.camposfera.pl, +48531503972 Mob.