Desuselbach
Please add a motivation letter in English or German to show your high motivation for the project, your interest and experience and what you think you can contribute. This project is a Volunteering Team within the European Solidarity Corps program. Volunteers have to have legal residency in an EU country, there is a strict age limit of 18 to 30 years and there are a few important steps to take before and after the project in addition: • Registering in the ESC portal • signing a Volunteering agreement • handing in a personal report and travel tickets In return participation is free of charge, as well as food and accommodation. Volunteers need to stay the full duration of the project in order to get their pocket money (5 euros per day) and travel cost reimbursed (20-360 euros depending on distance). Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, all volunteers need to be either fully vaccinated (2 to 3 shots of one of the following vaccines: BioNtech/Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca or Johnson&Johnson) or recovered (date of infection must be at least 28 days old and max 90 days old).
“Support rural youth and rural development”. We want to make this rural area international: So, we asked local associations, youth initiatives and communities in five neighbouring small villages where they want to get help from international volunteers and they found plenty of different small projects. Due to this structure of the project, a wide range of different tasks awaits you: There will be different activities in the field of landscape protection, improving playgrounds and public places. But also more specific projects as the one in cooperation with the association "Nationalparkbahn Hunsrück": You will work on their goal to revive the historic railway line through the region. This should enable tourists to explore the Hunsrück in an environmentally friendly way and allow residents to use other means of transport than the car (https://www.facebook.com/ignationalparkbahn/) . You will work in small teams to support different projects at the same time.
You will stay in I the community centre of Deuselbach. A village with 265 inhabitants. The accommodation is spacious, has a huge kitchen including a dish-washer and a living room, toilets and showers. There is one big sleeping room with camping beds. You will have wifi and a washing machine. Your group of volunteers will be responsible for grocery shopping and cooking together. The food will be bought with the camp budget and everybody will take turns for cooking, washing the dishes and cleaning. In order to reduce our carbon footprint on the planet, we encourage volunteers to reduce meat and try more sustainable dishes.
The Hunsrück is a very rural upland area in Rhineland-Palatinate. The densely wooded low mountain range is characterised by small villages, meadows and peatlands. It is bounded by the valleys of the Moselle-Saar (north-to-west), the Nahe (south), and the Rhine (east). The region has become one of Germany's major onshore wind power regions and nature-based tourism is widespread. In 2015, the new National Park Hunsrueck-Hochwald was inaugurated. Most of the activities will take place in the area: outdoor activites as hiking or a high-rope-course. But for sure you will have the opportunity to a couple of interesting places, e.g. to Trier, the oldest German city with many World Heritage sights from Roman period (Porta Nigra), a beautiful city centre, pubs, shops and much more.
