• Applications shall consist of cv, foto and a motivationletter concerning the project you are interested in. A general motivationletter is not enough. Please explain why you are interested in the project. And please name the project number otherwise it is not possible for me to relate your application to the single project.

• good English and German language skills required

Responsibilities of the volunteer:

- cooperation with other local partners like the organic garden, "house of the forest" etc.
- preparation and organisation of natural and environmental measures with children and youth groups in the framework of the project offers for school classes.
- help and support in the environment and planning measures in the children´s recreational village (willow huts, planting, small log road for the backpack trail etc).
- collaboration in the educational centre in the content of the educational care of the children´s group (play and cultural work with children, handicrafts, sport etc).
- co-leading of an international workcamp during the summer
- support and cooperation in the "hobbybude" (suggest creative offers like casting of gypsum, silk painting, to confect candles, doing handycrafts with organic products, common cooking and baking, etc.)

working times / description of a normal week day:

- 30 hours a week, depending on the guests possibly Saturdays and Sundays, and then free time in the week; breakfast and lunch break, flexible daily division of the working hours depending on need and prior arrangement, division of working hours between morning - afternoon, afternoon - evening, or morning and evening

- approx. 7.00 getting up
- approx 8.00 breakfast with colleagues and volunteers from the national voluntary service
- 9.00 - 12.00 working outside (e.g. making the educational trail), taking care of groups or free time
- 12.00 lunch
- 13.00 - approx. 18.00 partly involved in taking care of the groups (hiking, handicrafts etc) or free time
- 18.00 dinner
- 19.00 - approx 22.00 the evening care of groups (helping with camp fire, night hikes etc) or free time

In the framework of the EVS we plan visits to and exchanges of experience with other children´s recreation centres, and with our partners in the recreation area.

On days off it is possible to visit places in the area such as Berlin, Potsdam, the Spree forest, go on bike trips and borrow boats.

In the children´s recreation centre full board is available all year round for the guests, employees and volunteers. When the village is closed for holidays (such as christmas) it is possible to take holiday or to be cared for at a partner institution.

Language training will be guaranteed in several ways:
- guidance and training by the pedagogical colleague or tutor
- constant contact through work with colleagues and therefore 'learning by doing'
- contact in free time with colleagues and volunteers from the national voluntary service who live there
- if possible, necessary or relevant in local evening classes

other training and support for the volunteer:
- guidance and training by the pedagogical colleague/tutor and the director
- constant contact through work with colleagues, national voluntary service volunteers and therefore 'learning by doing'
- involvement of the volunteer in experience exchanges and further training with our partners (Märkischer Wald e.V., national park administration, other children´s recreational centres).
- involvement in the activities of the board of governors, the life of the organisation and recreation offers

The volunteers who would like to do the EVS should have the following attributes/skills:

- interest in working with children and young people
- basic german language skills
- flexible working hours
- independent, out- going, friendly,
- able to work in a team
- bond to nature
- The volunteer should be able to live in an isolated place in aforest outside villages or towns.

Because of the different working fields in which the volunteer can be involved, we are able to consider different volunteers skills and abilities.

Regarding the sending organisation, we have no special wishes. We keep in touch with those organisations that sent us volunteers in the past years. But even when the collaboration with these organisations has worked very well, we continue to remain open for "new" organisations, countries and cultures.

The project is NOT in berlin. it seems to be nearby berlin but finally it takes more than 1 hour by car and at least 2 hours to reach the center of berlin if you use the public transport. the project is situated in an isolated place and the volunteers should be aware of this.