Community, Conservation Care and Schools (Boarding) Projects in Germany

  Germany

Bonn,  Cologne (Koln),  Dresden

Durations of Program: 3-6 months and 7-12 months
Typical Duration of Program: 3-6 months
Dates: January, February, September

Description: With such a wide variety of projects, Germany offers the chance to try your hand at teaching, working with people with additional needs or contributing to conservation projects.

Highlights: Community Care projects can be in schools for disabled children, or schools catering to special educational needs. In special schools volunteers may give practical support to individual students or work with staff in family groups. There are projects in kindergartens (attending to early learning as well as social development) and Kinderheime, a supportive environment to which children with difficult backgrounds return after morning school. There are also Community and Care opportunities in residential homes for the elderly.

Conservation projects are with Freiwilliges Oekologisches Jahr, a renowned program that carries out work on farms or in locations of special environmental significance, or Denkmalpflege, which deals with the preservation of historic buildings and monuments.

Schools (Boarding) projects are in secondary schools, which usually have both boarding and day pupils. Volunteers assist primarily with supervision in the boarding house and with free time activities, but there will also be opportunities to help in the classroom, with English or subjects where volunteers may have a particular skill, e.g. music, sport, or computing.

Qualifications: Cultural differences and dependence on a second language will require resilience and determination on the part of the volunteer

Cost in US$: $ 2775

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: These projects will suit flexible, determined, and compassionate young people who would also like to improve their German. .

Age Range: 18

This Program is open to Australian Participants.

Participants Travel to Germany Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups

Application Process Involves:

• In-Person Interview when Feasible
• Other
• Phone Interview
• Resume

Post Services Include:

• Exit Debriefing Abroad
• Alumni Network

Lattitude Global Volunteering Canada (formerly GAP)'s Mission Statement: Lattitude Global Volunteering Canada provides a distinctive, international experience for young volunteers, through a journey of discovery that fosters independence, helps others and promotes global understanding. Lattitude Canada places youth (ages 18 to 29) in volunteer placements overseas (3 to 12 month terms - depending on country).

Year Founded: 1970