Maniitsoq
You should be fit and an active person, to keep up with the children for so many hours - otherwise this camp can be tough. We expect you to participate in all kinds of activities, both creative and sports.
DO NOT BUY YOUR PLANE TICKETS TO COPENHAGEN, DENMARK BEFORE MS DENMARK CONTACTS YOU AND ALLOWS IT!!!
We will all meet in Copenhagen Airport and travel to Greenland together. As it is NOT possible for you to buy tickets to Greenland due to few departure days, you will have to do it through MS Denmark.
Since the price on tickets is very high, we substitute volunteer according to the schedule below:
4000 DKK (approx. 540€): Outside Europe
6000 DKK (approx. 800€): Europe (Russia incl.)
8000 DKK (approx. 1075€): Nordic Countries: (Denmark, Sweden, Norway)
We will provide you with banking details, and you are required to pay for the tickets before May 15th 2022.
The meeting point is Copenhagen Airport on the 29th of June around 07.00 in the morning. It is very important that you are at the airport on time, and therefore, it might be necessary for you to stay a night in Copenhagen from the 27th to the 28th of June. You will have to pay for this stay yourself.
It is possible to get stuck on the way home due to weather or technical problems, why we suggest that you plan to have at least two nights in Copenhagen before your connecting flight. This way the risk for missing your connecting flight is less.
More detailed information about transportation will be sent to you personally and given in your info sheet after acceptance.
OBS! To participate in this Work Camp, we require you to provide:
COVID-19:
In regard to COVID-19, it is our ambition to complete our Work Camps this summer, but it is essential for us, that our volunteers feel safe during the time they spend at our camps. This is why we constantly keep ourselves updated on the situation and we follow the Danish and Greenlandic government's instructions. Furthermore, we are ready to answer any questions that you might have, and we will keep all our volunteers updated right up until the start of the Work Camp.
Your Work Camp host will have guidelines on how to handle COVID-19 during your stay, including how to handle isolation and enforcement of government guidelines.
English, as a conversational level is necessary. You will be working with kids six hours a day, so you should find joy in spending time with children and know how to be patient with them. Most of the children do not understand English so you should be open to other ways of communicating.
English will also be the only language spoken. All participants must be willing to speak English, even though being from the same country or having troubles with the English language. Try your best!
You should be fit and an active person, to keep up with the children for so many hours - otherwise this camp can be tough. We expect you to participate in all kinds of activities, both creative and sports.
Association for Greenlandic Children wants Camp K to give the inhabitants a fantastic, creative, active, interesting summer. The activities will take place Monday through Friday 12.00-18.00, and will fall into these categories: Music, Dance, Singing, Games, Sports and Excursions.
The volunteers will decide which activities to offer during the camp.
You should expect long days, and it is expected that you will participate in all activities.
On Saturdays we will invite the entire population to a social event 18.00-21.00. This could be a night of music and dancing, teaching each other to play an instrument, cooking food from your home country, movie night etc.
Sleeping facilities:
We will fly directly from Copenhagen to Kangerlussuaq in Greenland and continue on to the town of Maniitsoq. We will stay at the school dorm in Maniitsoq from the 29th of June until the 2nd of July.
The Association for Greenlandic Children ensures that you will get a place to stay. We expect you to stay on a mattress on the floor at the school. You will stay in a shared room with other volunteers of the same sex. Telephone coverage might be scarcely, and you might not be able to use the internet more than once a week for a very short time.
Kitchen + bathroom facilities: Shared with volunteers of same sex
All food will have to be transported by ship. Therefore, you should be able to adapt to these local conditions or bring a small stock of goods yourself. It can be difficult to be vegetarian or vegan since many meals in Greenland is based on meat and fish. Therefore, you will have to bring some stuff yourself if you need a special diet.
Vegetarian/vegan food is available, but it can be difficult to obtain the necessary protein, especially if you do not eat fish. Therefore, we recommend, that you bring some extra protein and snacks. We do have access to vegetables, that is mostly frozen and other canned food products. Let us know if you want vegetarian meal on the airplane.
We will make cooking and cleaning teams. The group is responsible for shopping, cooking, cleaning etc. which is also going to take up some of your time every day.
In Maniitsoq we will get to know each other and do a lot of planning of the camp activities. We will also try to arrange an excursion in the area.
On the 2nd of July, we will go to Kangaamiut by ferry. This will be a very beautiful ferry ride. If you are lucky, you will get to see whales on this trip.
The nature in Greenland is in general amazing. In Kangaamiut, you can hike, go boat riding etc. in your leisure time.
Hiking in the fells is an amazing and unique experience. You can decide to organize a weekly leisure activity going hiking, fishing etc. on Sundays, which is your weekly day off.
Hopefully, the gym will be accessible to us around the clock. It will also be possible to play football or other sports with the community.
