Description

With such a wide variety of projects, Germany offers the chance to try your hand at teaching, working with people with additional needs or contributing to conservation projects.

Highlights

Community Care projects can be in schools for disabled children, or schools catering to special educational needs. In special schools volunteers may give practical support to individual students or work with staff in family groups. There are projects in kindergartens (attending to early learning as well as social development) and Kinderheime, a supportive environment to which children with difficult backgrounds return after morning school. There are also Community and Care opportunities in residential homes for the elderly.

Conservation projects are with Freiwilliges Oekologisches Jahr, a renowned program that carries out work on farms or in locations of special environmental significance, or Denkmalpflege, which deals with the preservation of historic buildings and monuments.

Schools (Boarding) projects are in secondary schools, which usually have both boarding and day pupils. Volunteers assist primarily with supervision in the boarding house and with free time activities, but there will also be opportunities to help in the classroom, with English or subjects where volunteers may have a particular skill, e.g. music, sport, or computing.

Qualifications

Cultural differences and dependence on a second language will require resilience and determination on the part of the volunteer

Languages

• English

Cost in US$:

2,775

Cost Includes:

• Food
• Housing
• In-country orientation/Training
• In-country staff support
• Medical insurance
• Medical services
• Travel while in host country

Program Fees Include:

-Food & Accommodation

Experience Required

no

Volunteer Types

Typical Volunteer

These projects will suit flexible, determined, and compassionate young people who would also like to improve their German. .

Age Range

18 and above

This Program is open to

Australian Participants.

Typical Living Arrangements

• Group living
• Home-stays
• Independent living
• Other

Participants Travel

Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work

Independently or in Groups

Application Process Involves

• In-Person Interview when Feasible
• Other
• Phone/Video Interview
• Resume

Typically The Application Process Time is

2 weeks

Lattitude Global Volunteering Canada (formerly GAP)'s Mission Statement

Lattitude Global Volunteering Canada provides a distinctive, international experience for young volunteers, through a journey of discovery that fosters independence, helps others and promotes global understanding. Lattitude Canada places youth (ages 18 to 29) in volunteer placements overseas (3 to 12 month terms - depending on country).

Year Founded

1970