ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION
Are you thinking about a gap year? You can stay with us for up to 9 months! What would you do? Taking care of the park in general: gardening, forestry, cleaning, and maintenance works in a historic park (including mowing, weeding, transplanting, sawing wood, collecting deadwood, laying the wood, removing snow and leaves, painting small architecture, etc). Moreover, helping with open-air events and exhibitions organized by the Foundation and helped in the Artist’s House – maintenance and reception tasks, chores, and organizing workshops for locals and tourists. If you are willing to spend time in a beautiful park’s nature surrounded by 130-year-old beech trees and want to help maintain the park with a rich history, meet artists, and attend different cultural events, create a place where people like to come back, apply now!
ACCOMMODATION, FOOD AND TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENTS
Accommodation: Shared room in a rented flat with a fully equipped kitchen and bathroom in walking distance from the park and Foundation office. You will get a bicycle for your use. Pocket money and food: you will get the food equivalent every month plus pocket money paid in Polish zloty. The international travel will be reimbursed according to the EU regulations.
TRAINING DURING THE ACTIVITY
The volunteer will have Polish classes and also will participate in the on-arrival and mid-term training organized by the National Agency.
PARTICIPANT PROFILE
We are looking for passionate nature lovers, interested in landscape protection, gardening, and forestry enthusiasts. You also have to be moderately fit, and can chop and saw wood, like weeding, mowing and raking and weeding and raking..;). Be ready to work outside in different weather conditions. And, if in addition, you have the soul of an artist, this project is for you. Your work in taking care of the park will be very valuable, it will arouse the recognition and interest of the local community and tourists who spend time in it. Your help in the Artist’s House will be appreciated.
ACTIVITY LOCATION:
Parkowa 12, 48-340 Głuchołazy Poland
PROJECT DURATION: 1 year
START: 2024–2025
DEADLINE: ASAP
APPLICATION LINK: https://b24-zh51xm.bitrix24.site/crm_form_ovkhb/