Blaubeuren offers popular sights like the monastry and the beautiful landscape of caves and the popular lake "Blautopf", you can do rock climbing as well (look at the web-site www.blaubeuren.de). There are coffehouses and bars, but also the cultural summer-scene and traditional festivals. The city of Ulm is easily reachable by public transport in about 20 minutes.
Blaubeuren is a meeting point for youngsters of the rural area because of the grammar school. The youth club and a wide spread of bonds offers attractive programms especially for youngsters. There is also a big offer of leisure facilities: swimming pool, library, shopping facilities, youth hostel, pre-historical museum, boarding school and the adult education centre that creates an atmosphere of a typical small town in Germany. .

The motivation of the protestant youth association is to admit volunteers to offer them an interesting and varied field of work. Furthermore the cooperation with young people affords new impulse and ideas for the youth work and supports intercultural learning.
Our volunteer tasks will include the attendance of children and youngsters, collaboration in the youth-coffehouse and in organising holiday camps, youth events, projects and seminars. The tasks are very diversify and affords to get easily in contact with other young people. Openness, inde-pendent and responsible working is important for this field of work. There is a scope for develop-ment to create own projects but also the competent tutorial by a social worker. The volunteer will do practical work and administration tasks. Furthermore there is a special educational offering for the volunteer and meetings with other volunteers to get in contact and work on projects together.

Practical activities are:

• collaboration in holiday activities and holiday camps (prearrangement/ workshops/ guidance of the participants)
• collaboration in the youth-coffehouse (kitchen/ guidance of the pupils/ organisation)
• planning and accomplishment of events, actions and projects
• creation of the culture - and movieprogramm in the youth-coffehouse
• barservice in the youth-coffehouse

Administration activities are:

• correspondence
• management of material
• design of the homepage
• public relationship (textcomponents, flyer, poster)
• collaboration in boards, commitees and teams

Special educational offers are:

• basis course in leading youth groups
• training pc-course (word, internet, web-design)
• first-aid course
• special topic seminars
• workshops (creative courses, cooking, invironmental-protection ..)
• excursions
  

The volunteer placement will be published in the internet and spread over the contacts of the network of the supporting organization.We are ready to work with all kinds of sending organisation.We are looking for young people who
enjoy working with youth
like working with others
are reliable, committed and creative
want to learn for life and their future professional care

The Kreisjugendring aids all young people that likes to work in an organisation of youth-work in the Alb-Donau-Kreis.
The volunteer should be aged between 18 and 30 years. Also he or she should be interested to spend 6 - 12 months in Germany and be willing to learn the German language.
The international volunteering should be used to make self-experience, to get to know yourself, adept your own ideas and talents, be open for everything that's new an power for something you are assured.


The volunteer will get the same risk prevention that our local volunteers get, and even more, he will get an every week supervision of the supporting organisation, together with all the other volunteers of the region. The volunteer will get language courses and we will help him in every kind of way to integrate in our community.