10. June 2010

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New LTV Project in Switzerland

Work start:2010-07-01   Work end: 2010-11-01

Application deadline: June 01, 2010 or as soon as possible!

Project description

The organic farm is located on a 900 meters mountain-plateau near Zug. From there you have a beautiful view on the lake and the Alps. Deer breeding is a part of the activities of the farm. Alternative courses are offered and a festival is organised. The farm welcomes guests for holidays and meditation and offers meals for hiking-tourists. They work regularly with people with special needs, who live in a caravan fleet, do garden work and handicraft. The farmer-family wishes to establish a community all around the year. It is an organic agricultural-, spiritual-, artisan-, community.

Work description

According to season and your skills, you will do organic gardening, construction work, general farming, welcome visitors in the small restaurant, housework, you will be involved in arts project and maybe do some public relation activities. Moreover, Hirschenhof welcomes an SCI Workcamp with 6 to 8 volunteers every year in July. The LTV can help to organise the workcamp.

You will work seven-eight hours five days a week.

From time to time, the volunteer will also be asked to help the kids living in the house for different activities.

Requirements

The work can be physically demanding.

You also have to be willing to live and work with people in difficult living situations and to share life and work in a community. As the farm is located in a remote and very beautiful surrounding, it helps if you feel comfortable living away from ”civilisation”.

As the deer are slaughtered on the farm, you must be OK with the thought of going to see blood and dead deer at some stage of your stay.

Basic German needed or strong motivation to learn German.

Accommodation

Private caravan [ trailer ], shared showers and toilets

Pocket money:  150 CHF per month

Insurance: Provided by SCI

Application deadline : [ June 1, 2010 ]  Please apply as soon as possible

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KVDA - Kenya    SPECIAL PROJECT

PROJECT: WORLD HERITAGE VOLUNTEERS AT SACRED MIJIKENDA KAYA FORESTS IN PARTERSHIP WITH SHIMBA HILLS FOREST GUIDES ASSOCIATION

CODE: KVDA/STV/SPECIAL WORK CAMP-WORLD HERITAGE VOLUNTEERS
DISTRICT: KINANGO   
THEME: SACRED MIJIKENDA KAYA FOREST
ORIENTATION: 9TH JULY 2010         DURATION: 10TH – 31ST JULY 2010

PROJECT ACTIVITIES: 

The work will include the following:

·          KVDA will mobilize the local people towards tree planting and brick making as awareness creation strategies Volunteers and local people will have face to face discussions, meetings where they will educate each other on conservation initiatives and the significance of preservation of the World Heritage site significance of preservation of the World Heritage site.

·          Environmental clubs in Primary and Secondary schools will be revamped as active partners in the process. KVDA will be revamped as active partners in the process. KVDA will proactively involve learning institutions and jointly develop a curriculum to guide efforts to preserve the Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forest.

·          Training of trainers on Entrepreneurship will be carried out during the work camp and the target will be leaders of youth and women groups as well as other focus groups working in the area. Justification of this activity to the preservation of the World Heritage Site is prompted by the fact that high poverty levels continue to fuel social discord, encroachment of humans to forest and scramble for natural resources, leading to depletion and untold destruction.  Equipped with skills, the youth will have more opportunities for self-advancement and this will also enlighten the entire community to be more conscious of effects of their present actions that could jeopardize sustainability of future generations.

·          Volunteers will have the opportunity to work with the Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forest. Ideally, project placement will attract both skilled and unskilled and unskilled volunteers who will enormously contribute towards improvement of Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forest and by extension raise of profile both on national and international level, aware that the site has a bigger potential to attract as many tourists visiting Kenya every year if its profiling is improved.

·          It is important to note that KVDA’s guiding philosophy is “Development Against Dependence” with more efforts expended to support already existing structures at the local communities in order to effectively respond to emerging development challenges and why our intervention recognizes the good efforts carried out by the SHIFOGA project and the partnership together with other community based organizations to spearhead the agenda for socio-economic development and highlight prominently the significance of all players and actors to integrate environmental conservation in their program area and the billion tree planting campaign launched in Kenya and vigorously supported by environmental lobbies, NGO’s and Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Wangari Maathai should drive our determination to put the campaign of the restoration of the Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forest on the World Platform.

·          The volunteers will be involved in the conservation of the Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forest in close cooperation with medium and long-term volunteers and workers of the Shimba Hills Forest Guides association, in order to develop the tourism potential of the site. To do so, tree planting and brick making activities with environmental best practiced on the other hand will be carried out. The objective is to increase local people awareness about the preservation of the World Heritage, cultural diversity and biodiversity diversity through mutual learning with the volunteers.  A wider promotion and recognition of voluntary service in the region is also expected to be among the main results of the project.

·          Promotion and recognition of voluntary service in the region is also expected to be among the main results of the project.

IF INTERESTED, PLEASE APPLY ASAP TO sciivs.placement@gmail.com

 

8. December 2008

"The project “Volintegration” run simultaneously in 12 countries all over Europe, aims to establish an European network of different bodies to promote volunteering as powerful means to develop sense of belonging to local and European communities, feeling of ownership and therefore commitment toward the society. In the same time we want inform young people and youth leaders on European opportunities on social inclusion and integration." (Src: http://www.volintegration.eu/en/home.htm)

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