UAA0010 - Khortytsya boarding school

Dates: 224th June – 08th July
Type: Renovation placement.
Location: Zaporizhzhya.
About the Project: This camp takes place in a Khortytsya boarding school for children and youth. The school consists of kinder garden, school and college, and even has its own museum. About 400 kids and young people are studying there. Khortytsya Island includes the Cossack fortress, the Cathedral of St.Nicholas, the Museum of History of Cossacks with authentic items pertinent to every-day life of Cossacks. On the island of Khortytsya, in the middle of the Dnipro River, on the Western-Southern part of the city, the headquarters (sich) of the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks was based between 16th and 18th cent. (The word Zaporizhzhya means "beyond the rapids," i.e., of the Dnipro.) For nearly three centuries the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks served as the rallying point for Ukrainian struggles against social, national, and religious oppression.
Terminal: Dnipropetrovsk.
Work: Volunteers will be working in the school: doing site maintaining works (painting the building– to prepare the building for the new academic year).
Accommodation & Food: will be provided on the territory of the school. Volunteers will be accommodated in the rooms where children normally live; toilets and showers are available inside the building. Unfortunately, there could be difficulties with hot water. But we will organize alternative possibilities to have a hot shower. Volunteers will cook their breakfast and dinner, hot lunch will be provided.
Free Time: You can learn history, culture and life of Zaporizhzhya. Visits to numerous museums, exhibitions, preserve, boat trip around the Island on the Dnieper River will be organised.
Project Language: English.
Required Items: Musical instruments, national games, info on your country, working clothes, gloves, thin paint-brushes, swimming suit, good mood and motivation.
# Volunteers: 12
Notes: There will be children in the boarding school during summer period. And you may bring presents and souvenirs for them.