Childcare at the Baltic Sea

CODE: ijgd 15040

Work:

Do you like playing with children and would you like to help children from the district of Nordwestmecklenburg experience great holidays?
Then join us and look after 20 to 30 children between the ages of six and twelve every day in the Hanseatic city of Wismar and in three or four other towns in the district of Nordwestmecklenburg as part of the holiday play activities. With your ideas and your desire for creative activities, sports games, music and dance, make sure that these days are a great experience for you and the children. With games, songs and handicraft ideas from your home countries, you can give the play weeks an international flair.
On Monday 4.8. and Tuesday 5.8. you will prepare the vacation play activities and the press conference on 5.8. Afterwards, from Wednesday 6.8. to Friday 8.8. and from Monday 11.8. to Friday 15.8., you will look after the children together and with the help of the educational staff on site and implement your prepared ideas.
The vacation play activities take place in the Hanseatic city of Wismar and in the youth facilities of the district of Nordwestmecklenburg. The Wismar Children's and Youth Recreation Center will provide you with bicycles for the entire time. You can also use the bikes for trips into the city and the surrounding area. For trips to other places in the district, you will be given vacation tickets to use public transport if possible, or you will be driven by the team.
A good knowledge of German will make it easier for you to communicate with the children. Communication at the camp is almost exclusively in German and only in English in an emergency.
Please remember to bring some game ideas and music from your home countries!
Please note: The holiday offer is a voluntary open offer. Therefore, more or less children can participate on the days.

Accomodation and food

You will be staying at the Children's and Youth Leisure Centre (KJFZ) in Wismar, where most of the children's holiday activities take place. You will all sleep together in one room on air beds. There are 3 showers, 5 toilets, a kitchen, a dining and meeting room and a leisure room with air hockey, billiards, darts and table football. You can also use a skate park, a table tennis table, a basketball court and a volleyball court in the outdoor area. You will cook together. Money for food will be provided. Vegetarian or vegan meals are possible. Please state any intolerances during registration.

Location and leisure

The Children's and Youth Leisure Centre (KJFZ) Wismar offers you a variety of indoor leisure activities like air hockey, billiards, darts and table football as well as an outdoor skate park, a table tennis table, a basketball court and a volleyball court. Bicycles are also available for excursions to the beautiful beaches of the Baltic Sea and the city centre of Wismar. The Hanseatic city of Wismar with its old harbour and old town is one of the most beautiful old Hanseatic cities on the Baltic coast.

Project hosted by

The youth service of the district of Nordwestmecklenburg supports young people in their individual and social development and contributes to maintaining or creating positive living conditions for young people and their families as well as a child- and family-friendly environment.
At the DRK Children's and Youth Leisure Centre in Wismar, children and young people meet to actively organise their leisure time and take advantage of educational opportunities.
The ijgd has been successfully running this workcamp with these project partners since 2009.

The ijgd has been organising volunteer service programmes since 1949. We are an independent, non-profit association for international youth work, a recognised independent youth welfare organisation, and one of the largest and oldest workcamp organisations in Germany. Each year, we assist around 5,000 young people into volunteer work in Germany and abroad. We give them the opportunity to be creative, act in solidarity, take responsibility for themselves, and discover their own true potential and strengths.Our principles: Ecological learning, voluntary contribution, self-organisation, social development, intercultural learning, gender equality, anti-racism/anti-discrimination and political education.
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Directions to meeting point

at the accommodation; on Saturday 02/08/2025 by 7pm at the latest

From Hamburg Airport (travel time to the camp 3h20min) take the train S1 (in the direction of Wedel or Hamburg Blankenese) to Hamburger Hauptbahnhof (main train station). This train leaves every 10 minutes (travel-time 24min.)

From Berlin (travel time to the camp 4h15min)
From Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Berlin main train station) take (at least at 3:10pm) the same train RE 8 in the direction of Wismar and get off at the last station Wismar (travel time around 3h17min).

In Wismar
At Wismar please walk to the ZOB (follow the signs). At Wismar ZOB please take the bus number 240 in the direction of “Busbahnhof Grevesmühlen” or take the bus number 15 in the direction of “Seebad Wendorf, Wismar”. Get off at “Werftstraße, Wismar” after a travel time of 5min respectively 13min.
At the bus station Werftstraße walk 50m in the opposite direction and cross the traffic lights. Turn into the street "Am Köppernitztal" and after 50m turn left into Friedrich-Techen-Straße. Follow this street for 200m and then turn right into the street "Am Hofgarten". After 30m you will reach your accommodation, The Children's and Youth Leisure Centre Wismar (Kinder- und Jugendfreizeitzentrum (KJFZ)), on the left-hand side.

More Information about train and bus connections: www.bahn.com.

Additional comments

You will receive more detailed information after confirming your registration with the specific info sheet for your camp.