Improve your German and help in workshops for disabled in Berlin

  Germany

• Berlin: 
Berlin

Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Dates: August 23 - September 14, 2008

Description: This volunteer project takes place at the Spandau branch of the Mosaic Workshop for the Disabled which includes twelve different workshop areas, such as industrial assembly, laundry, joinery, home-grown produce, canteen, etc, and provides work for 260 mentally disabled people. The facility also provides care, support and education.

During the second and third week you will work for about 4 hours in the Mosaic workshop. Your tasks will be to rearrange the surrounding area, to plant flowers and to arrange sitting areas. Furthermore you will have the chance to gain an insight view into the work of this workshop. If you want, you can help and learn how to cooperate with disabled people.

The centre of Berlin is within easy reach by public transport. You will receive the tickets for this. The 3 hectare big area is big enough for camping, an outside theatre, for BBQ, and to play football.

There is an extra fee of 300 Euro for participation in this project.

Highlights: In addition to working at the Mosaic workshops, this project gives you the opportunity to learn more German. During week one, youll have four to five hours of language tuition per day. Your tutors are experienced teachers of German as a foreign language and also participate in the workcamp. During the next two weeks, youll spend about four hours each day in the workshop areas, where you can practise and improve your newly acquired knowledge of German. An hours German tuition straight after work should help to ensure that you retain whatever new words and phrases you learned that day.

Qualifications: This project is for participants with a basic knowledge of German.

Cost in US$: $290 US

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: motivated to work voluntarily within an international team, tolerant, open-minded and cooperative young person with adventurous spirit.

Age Range: 18 - 26 years old

This Program is open to American and Canadian Participants.

Participants Travel to Germany Independently

Typically Participants Work in Groups

CADIP - Canadian Alliance for Development Initiatives and Projects's Mission Statement: CADIP is an independent, non-governmental, non-religious, not-for-profit Canadian organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Through various youth initiatives, Cadip promotes peace, cooperation, tolerance and understanding in international, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural surroundings. The organization also promotes patterns and examples of civil activities focused on serving others, on building social ties and strengthening communities, on supporting civil society development. Aims and general objectives: " To promote volunteering as an expression of civic contribution " To strengthen the international contacts among young people " To build tolerance and understanding in multicultural and multi-ethnic surroundings " To promote multiunderstanding among youth all over the world " To facilitate the individual growth of the volunteers through the acquisition of work, life and learning skills " To work for the recognition and promotion of non-formal learning " To support the community initiatives and assist in community development.