Denmark 2011

Workcamps with MS

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MS02 International Kids Camp Tingbjerg 24-06-11 - 10-07-11 SOCI-KIDS 12 vols
LOCATION: Copenhagen
DESCRIPTION: This is the fourth year that Global Contact and our local partner arrange a Kids Camp in the residential area Tingbjerg, which is located a little outside of Copenhagen. Many of the residents in Tingbjerg are children (33 %) and most of them have a non-Danish background (Somalian, Iraqi, Pakistani, Yugoslavian, Moroccan and Lebanese). We think that ethnic diversity is a resource and we want to highlight that through this camp. The unemployment rate in Tingbjerg is very high and lot of residents have low or no education and speak poor Danish. This situation causes a lot negative consequences, in particular for the children. In the summer holiday these children are often left to drift around and hang in the streets. The overall purpose of the Kids Camp is therefore to organize exciting, healthy and funny summer holiday activities for children in Tingbjerg. The camp will be based at a local school, so it will be possible to organize all kinds of activities – from sports and events to theatre and painting workshops. The main goal of the Kids Camp is to give the children who participate in the activities great and memorable summer holiday experiences. At the same time we hope, that the meeting between the international volunteers and the children will promote understanding across cultural differences.
REQUIREMENTS: You do not need any special skills to attend this work camp. You only need to be highly motivated to give the kids the summer of their life. Therefore we would kindly ask you to attach a motivation letter with your application, where you in brief describe yourself and why you want to go.
LOCATION: Tingbjerg is located 8 kilometres from the centre of Copenhagen (the capital for Denmark) and there are various bus connections from Tingbjerg to the city centre. There live app. 5.600 people in Tingbjerg and the area is situated close to beautiful nature areas.
ACCOMMODATION: You will stay in a house close by the school.
AIRPORT: Copenhagen (CPH)
TRAIN_STATION: Copenhagen Central Station
LANGUAGES: English
REMARKS: If you go to www.youtube.com and search for “Tingbjerg work camp”, you can see a short film from one of last year’s other Kids Camps. Or you can follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuE_KaAyO10. The film is called “Summercamp/Workcamp in Tingbjerg.”

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MS03 International Kids Camp Mjoelnerparken 02-07-11 - 16-07-11 SOCI-KIDS 12 vols
LOCATION: Copenhagen
DESCRIPTION: This is the fourth year that “Sjakket” – a neighbourhood after school centre, is hosting a Kids Camp in the residential area Mjoelnerparken. 97 % of the residents in Mjoelnerparken have a non-Danish background and they represent 38 different nationalities. We think that ethnic diversity is a resource and we want to highlight that through this camp. The unemployment rate in Mjoelnerparken is very high and a lot of residents have low or no education and speak poor Danish. This situation causes a lot negative consequences, in particular for the children. And in the summer holiday these children are often left to drift around and hang in the streets.The overall purpose of the Kids Camp is therefore to organize exciting, healthy and funny summer holiday activities for the children who live in Mjoelnerparken. The camp will be based at the after school centre Sjakket. Sjakket has a lot of different facilities so it will be possible to organize all kinds of activities – from sports and dance events to theatre and painting workshops. The overall goal of the Kids Camp is to give the children who participate in the activities great and memorable summer holiday experiences. At the same time we hope, that the meeting between the international volunteers and the children will promote understanding across cultural differences.
REQUIREMENTS: You do not need any special skills to attend this work camp. You only need to be highly motivated to give the kids the summer of their life. Therefore we would kindly ask you to attach a motivation letter with your application, where you in brief describe yourself and why you want to go.
LOCATION: Mjoelnerparken is located in an area of Copenhagen called Noerrebro. Noerrebro is a multi-ethnic melting pot in Copenhagen, with a great vibe, many unique shops and cosy cafés which reflect the multicultural area. Noerrebro is close to the centre of Copenhagen and downtown is just a short walk or a bus ride away.
ACCOMMODATION: TBA – but accommodation will definitely be indoors with shower and toilet facilities
LANGUAGES: English
AIRPORT: Copenhagen (CPH)
TRAIN_STATION: Copenhagen Central Station
REMARKS: If you go to www.youtube.com and search for “Tingbjerg work camp”, you can see a short film from one of last year’s other Kids Camps. Or you can follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuE_KaAyO10. The film is called “Summercamp/Workcamp i Tingbjerg.”

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MS04 Summer at the Women’s Centre IKC 09-07-11 - 23-07-11 SOCI-KIDS 10 vols, 21+ years
LOCATION: Copenhagen
DESCRIPTION: The work camp is arranged in cooperation with the Women’s Centre IKC. IKC is a daytime offer to women with immigrant backgrounds. Throughout the year, the IKC arrange activities, network opportunities and different kinds of counselling, ranging from legal advice to assistance with job applications. In the summer, these activities are expanded, as the centre is among the few open facilities during the school holidays. Two days each week, the work camp volunteers will be responsible for planning activities at the centre – these activities could include sports, creative projects, cooking food from different cultures etc. The activities will be planed upon arrival and will therefore depend on the participants’ skills and ideas – this will give the volunteers a great opportunity to develop the work camp! During the two weeks, it will furthermore be up to the participants to plan a great summer party that will take place the last Friday of the work camp, and where all the women, children and staff at the centre will be invited to attend. The remaining three days of the week, participants will assist with the already existing activities at the centre - these could for example be bike-riding courses, cooking, sewing and activities with the children, as well as helping out with the weekly excursion out of Copenhagen.
Social and cultural exchange is an important part of the camp and during the evenings and the weekends, volunteers will have plenty of free time to get to know each other, and each other’s different cultures and the beautiful city of Copenhagen!
REQUIREMENTS: This work camp is only open to female volunteers, because it takes place at a centre exclusively for women and their children. In order to make this work camp successful, it is important that all participants are flexible, full of initiative and open-minded as the women at the centre come from all around the world and have varying backgrounds. As most of the women speak Arabic, it would be an advantage if you have some knowledge of the Arabic language – however, this is not a requirement for participation. Previous experience from similar projects, or with teaching or working with children, is a plus, but as with the above, not a requirement. The most important thing is that the volunteers are full of ideas and want to put them into action! A short letter of motivation is required.
LOCATION: The camp will take place in an area of Copenhagen called Noerrebro. Noerrebro is a multi-ethnic melting pot in Copenhagen, with a great vibe, many unique shops and cosy cafés which reflect the multicultural area. Noerrebro is close to the centre of Copenhagen and downtown is just a short walk or bus ride away.
ACCOMMODATION: TBA – but accommodation will definitely be indoors with shower and toilet facilities.
AIRPORT: Copenhagen (CPH)
TRAIN_STATION: Copenhagen Central Station
LANGUAGES: English
REMARKS: This is a work camp for female volunteers above the age of 21 only.

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MS05 Summer School Gellerup 13-07-11 - 24-07-11 SOCI-KIDS 10 vols
LOCATION: Aarhus
DESCRIPTION: Summer School Gellerup can celebrate their fifth year anniversary this summer and to make sure that this will stand out as an extraordinary event, they have decided to invite international volunteers to be part of this year’s Summer School. This Summer School takes place in the suburb Gellerup, which is located a little outside Aarhus (the second largest city in Denmark). There live app. 8.000 people in Gellerup, out of which 88 % have a non-Danish background. Summer School Gellerup believes that the many cultures represented in the area are a resource and the project wants to make this visible. Over half of residents who live in Gellerup support them self and their families on low income transfer from the Danish Government, a lot of them speak poor Danish and have no education. This gives cause to a range of negative consequences, in particular for the children who live in Gellerup. That is part of the reason why a group of students form Aarhus for the last four years has organized Summer School Gellerup. Summer School Gellerup is not really a school; it is more like a 4-day (from 18th – 22th of July) summer holiday event, where the children through fun activities learn more about different cultures. Last year’s theme was Asian cultures. This year’s the theme will be the Romani people, Mongolians, Inuits from Greenland and the Masai people of Kenya. The Summer School is organized together with the local activity centre Globus1. Globus1 have all kinds of facilities, so the activities for the children can range from dance and theatre to all kinds of sports and creative activities. In the days before the Summer School the volunteers will help developing and preparing the activities. During the summer school the volunteers will be “teachers” and organize the activities and when the Summer School ends there will a couple of days to close it all down and clean up.
REQUIREMENTS: You do not need any special skills to attend this work camp. You only need to be highly motivated to give the kids the summer of their life. Therefore we would kindly ask you to attach a motivation letter with your application, where you in brief describe yourself and why you want to go.
LOCATION: The camp is located in suburb Gellerup, 8 kilometres outside Aarhus. A population around 300.000 makes Aarhus the second largest city in Denmark. There are various bus connections from Gellerup to the centre of Aarhus.
ACCOMMODATION: At a local school
AIRPORT: Aarhus. It is also possible to fly to Copenhagen and then go by train to Aarhus.
TRAIN_STATION: Aarhus
LANGUAGES: English

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MS06 Himmelstorm Festival Dyssekilde 22-07-11 - 04-08-11 FEST-ENVI 12 vols
LOCATION: Hundested
DESCRIPTION: Himmelstorm Festival is a 2 day music festival in the ecovillage Dyssekilde.
The festival will host a broad palette of Danish musicians, poets and artists. The festival will communicate the values of the ecovillage in all the aspects of the event, from the food and drinks to how we use energy and treat waste at the festival site. Between 200 and 300 guests are expected to visit the festival. The work camp volunteers are going to be a part of the volunteer group that arranges the festival. The volunteer group consists mostly of people from the ecovillage. Volunteers will help build up the festival site, run the festival and take it down again. In the first days of the camp the food and drink stands of the festival will be set up. Volunteers will also help local artists in creating large installations, prepare and decorate the stage and the whole festival site, set up the camping site, paint and put up signs in the village etc. During the festival volunteers are going to help in the bar, ticket sale, at the stage etc. and after the festival volunteers will help take down the festival, clean up the festival site etc. There will in all aspects of the festival be focused on sustainability. This applies both to the food and drinks, which will be sold, energy consumed during the festival and the treatment of the festival's waste. During the camp the volunteers will live in and therefore be an integral part of ecocommunities. Volunteers will get acquainted with and learn about the many forms of sustainability. Just as they will gain experience they can use in their daily lives when they return home. It is the first time a festival like this takes place in the ecovillage. The ecovillage is very much looking forward to it, but underlines that volunteers should expect and be ready to accept and help when problems and unexpected incidents occur. Volunteers should be patient and ready to help solving new challenges as they occur during the camp. Additional information about the festival can be found at www.himmelstorm-festival.dk (in Danish).
REQUIREMENTS: Volunteers are expected to come with the motivation to be an active part of the festival. A short letter of motivation is required.
LOCATION: Dyssekilde is a 22 year old ecovillage situated in the north of Zealand in the village Torup 5 km from the town Hundested. You can read more about the ecovillage on www.dyssekilde.dk/uk
ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers will be sleeping in tents a few 100 meters from the festival site and have access to the community’s common house where volunteers will cook by themselves, take showers and use the toilet facilities.
AIRPORT: Copenhagen (CPH)
TRAIN_STATION: Nearest train station: Dyssekilde (just at the ecovillage). From the airport you take the train to Copenhagen central station – there you change to train B to Hilleroed. In Hilleroed you change to the yellow train going to Hundested
LANGUAGES: English
REMARKS: Work permit is required for non-European citizens

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MS07 Peace and Tolerance Camps 23-07-11 - 05-08-11 STUDY 15 vols
LOCATION: Soenderborg
MAX_AGE: 30
DESCRIPTION: The Peace and Tolerance Camp is hosted by Soenderborg Student Foundation (SSF), which is a foundation working to create an exciting, appealing and rich learning environment, for all students in Soenderborg no matter their nationality. The camp is located in the city Soenderborg, near the border between Denmark and Germany. The Peace and Tolerance Camp is making a statement towards the intolerance that exists today between different countries, cultures and religions. The aim and purpose of the camp is to educate the volunteers to become peace and tolerance ambassadors. Based on the wish to make the world a better place, the work camp will work with examples from all over the world, which proves that all humans can live together and benefit from diversity. There will be workshops, lectures and debates about the problems and how people can learn from different conflicts around the world. At the end of the work camp, the aim is to create an action plan based on the different solutions discussed and debated during the camp.The idea behind the location in the border area, is to explore the living and coexisting habits from the past and up to the present in this particular area, as an example on how people of different nationalities, co-exist in the border area. Denmark and Germany were at in war for many years and even though they have been enemies many times in the history of mankind, there is a minority of the Danish and German families living on both sides of the border. They live with each other, in peace and tolerance, benefiting from each other’s diversity. The work camp wants to explore if there is something we can learn by studying this community and the way they coexist, which can be related to the rest of the world. There will of course be free time outside the camp and the team of work camp leaders and helpers will make sure that the volunteers get to know each other and the wonderful surroundings in Soenderborg.
REQUIREMENTS: It is important that the volunteers are interested in the different issues surrounding minorities, religious and cultural diversity and at that same time are motivated to take active part in the debates, workshops and lectures. We would therefore kindly ask you to write a short motivation letter where you tell a little about yourself and why you want to be part of the Peace and Tolerance Camp.
LOCATION: Soenderborg on the island of Als
ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers will stay close to the University of Soenderborg in a place with beds, shared kitchen and bath. Volunteers will cook and clean by themselves.
AIRPORT: Billund (From here there are bus connections to Soenderborg). Soenderborg also has its own airport but it is very small
TRAIN_STATION: Soenderborg
LANGUAGES: English
REMARKS: The volunteers are expected to be active participants in debates and lectures. It is therefore required that the volunteers master English at a level of conversation.

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MS08 Vingsted Historical Workplace 27-07-11 - 05-08-11 CONS-ENVI 17 vols
LOCATION: Vejle
DESCRIPTION: The work camp is arranged in cooperation with Vingsted Historical Workplace/workshop. Since 1976 Vingsted has built up a large Iron Age environment with farms and houses and the possibility of many historical activities. The purpose of Vingsted Historical Workshop is to create, operate and develop practical work, educational and cultural activities where users can have a direct experience with various natural and historical contexts. During the last 7 years Vingsted has been in the process of (re)constructing a chieftain's house from the Iron Age in Denmark (the time around the year 0). The task of the work camp-volunteers will be to help build the fence which will encircle the entire chieftain farm. Work at the camp will consist primarily of cleavage, shaping and setting the oak logs to the fence. The entire fence is approx. 100 meters long. Volunteers are supposed to work and live as in the Iron Age. Accommodation facilities and work will give the volunteers an insight into and understanding of human interaction with nature. During the camp focus will be on food procurement and food preparation, use of raw materials, energy sources and energy consumption, waste and recycling, household and agricultural technologies. The work will focus on the provision and use of natural resources, different materials and their uses, craft technology and work processes.
REQUIREMENTS: Volunteers should have an interest in history and different ways of living in different cultures at different times. Participants must be prepared to live as people did in Denmark during the Iron Age.
LOCATION: Vingsted Historical Workshop is located in Vejle Valley - approx. 10 km west of the city of Vejle in Jutland. The area around Vejle River Valley is known for many archaeological findings from the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Viking age. Some of the area's historical sites and attractions can be visited during the camp.
ACCOMMODATION: Participants will stay and live in two reconstructed Iron Age houses in the area. Participants will have access to modern bathing facilities. Meals will be prepared by participants – sometimes over an open flame.
AIRPORT: Billund, from here it is possible to go by bus to Vejle. It is also possible to fly to Copenhagen and then go by train to Vejle.
TRAIN_STATION: Vejle
LANGUAGES: English
REMARKS: Participants must be willing to undertake work tasks that can be physically demanding and require good cooperation. Work permit is required for non-European citizens.

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MS09 Sustainability, Life and Amazement 07-08-11 - 27-08-11 CONS-ENVI-STUDY 18 vols
LOCATION: Brederup
DESCRIPTION: The camp is hosted by Brenderup Folk High School. Brenderup Folk High School is working as a boarding school with an international approach and accept both Danish and foreign students. You can read more about the school here: http://www.brenderuphojskole.dk/filer/english.htm. For the last years, Brenderup have hosted work camps that have supported the building process of Brenderup’s environmental friendly straw bale house and the ellipse-shaped ‘’lotus house’’. This year Brenderup wants to develop the idea of sustainability further into different ways of constructing. The volunteers will in cooperation with the constructors of Brenderup build various small buildings and activity equipment in the school garden, by using environmental friendly materials – also considering a nice aesthetic look. One of the bigger constructions will be to make a boulder wall for climbing, which also should be used as a roofed corridor between some buildings. The wall will be made in natural sustainable materials, with an artistic shape, challenging the other buildings in the garden. Everything will happen according to sustainable principles and sustainable materials. During the work camp participants will take part in workshops facilitated by the staff and students of Brenderup, where the idea of sustainability will be challenged and debated and also other workshops about recycling design, music, art and gym are planned. The work camp will be an integral part of the daily life at Brenderup Folk High School. The international volunteers will each day eat together with the rest of the school’s students, and common social activities will be arranged. The school has many international students and their integration with the camp contributes to cultural exchange and understanding, which is one of the school's basic values.
REQUIREMENTS: People, who are used to work with their hands in combination with artistic skills, will be preferred to the work camp and volunteers are expected to be ready to share their culture with the other participants and students at the school. All volunteers should prepare a presentation for the work camp entitled "How do youth in my culture think about sustainability, and what do they do towards securing a sustainable world?". The volunteer presentation will form the basis for debate on how young people can help to promote sustainable development around the world.
LOCATION: Brenderup is located on the island Funen (Fyn) in Denmark. The village Brenderup (2000 inhabitants) is close to the beach, forests and idyllic countryside.
ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers will be accommodated in a tent camp in the middle of Brenderup’s huge garden and will have access to showers and toilets in the school buildings. Food is prepared by the schools kitchen staff and served 3 times a day. Volunteers should expect to assist doing dishes and preparing meals. The school is making ’’green food’’ from sustainable products and also serve vegetarian food - volunteers just need to sign up for this upon arrival. There is wireless internet at the school and bicycles can be rented for the whole stay. Age: 18+ Terminal: (Train): Odense (36 km.) or Middelfart (16 km.) – from there by bus to Brenderup.
AIRPORT: Billund or Copenhagen – from here it possible to go by train or bus to Odense and from there to Brenderup.
TRAIN_STATION: Odense or Middelfart.
LANGUAGES: English
REMARKS: English at a conversational level is also required. The school is a folk high school and will have students and course participants (50 people) during the work camp. They have their own program but there will a lot of opportunities for volunteers to interact with the students, especially during dinner and through different social activities during the evenings. Volunteers are expected to follow the rules at the school. Pls. Read about the school at http://www.brenderuphojskole.dk/filer/english.htm. Work permit is required for non-European citizens.

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