Voluntary Services and Summer Camps
Would you like to work for understanding, diversity and solidarity and gain experience abroad? With ARSP you can get involved in year long social or historical voluntary services in Germany – together with others as part of an international volunteer group. Or you could take part in a two week long ARSP summer camp: in an international group you work and learn together on a specific project. And every year ARSP volunteers from Germany come to the UK and get involved here.
International Voluntary Service Programme in Germany
ARSP offers various placements for volunteers from other countries in several cities in Germany. Become part of the international volunteer group!
Every year around 20 volunteers from different countries get involved with ARSP in Germany. ARSP’s partner organisations are memorial sites and archives, social projects for people with disabilities, for older people or refugees. The placement projects are located in different cities around the country. As a volunteer, you will work full-time at one or two locations five days a week.
Here you can find out more about voluntary service, the placement projects and you can also apply directly online:
The memorial site provides information about the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg near Berlin. Many visitors come to learn more about the history of this place, but survivors and their loved ones also come to this place of persecution to commemorate. You will support the memorial site with office and research work, look after groups of visitors or give guided tours.
Here you can find out more about voluntary services and the different volunteer positions in several locations throughout Germany and you can also apply online directly:
The Grand Hotel in Regensburg, Bavaria, is a versatile meeting place for “travellers of all kinds”: accommodation for refugees, hotel and café, educational workshop and artist’s studio. As a volunteer, you accompany refugees, receive guests in the café and get involved in cultural projects.
Here you can find out more about voluntary servicesand the different volunteer positions in several locations throughout Germany and you can also apply online directly:
As a volunteer, you will live in Berlin and work in two locations: you will receive guests at the Brandenburg memorial sites and work at the memorial site for people with disabilities who were murdered by the Nazis. In the Cooperative Mensch you support people with disabilities, accompany them in their everyday life and create leisure activities together.
Here you can find out more about a voluntary service and the different volunteer positions in several locations throughout Germany and you can also apply online directly:
You support refugees in a counseling center. You accompany refugees and impart language skills and information. This volunteer position is combined with the work in the Marzahn Forced Camp Memorial, where Sinti*zze and Rom*nja were persecuted under National Socialism.
Here you can find out more about a voluntary service and the different volunteer positions in several locations throughout Germany and you can also apply online directly:
During your volunteer year you are part of the volunteer group. The almost 20 volunteers come from different countries, some of you live together in shared apartments in different cities across the country. You will prepare for your service together in several seminars, exchange views on historical and political issues and get to know the country and yourself better.
Here you can find out more about a voluntary service and the different volunteer positions in several locations throughout Germany and you can also apply online directly:
Summer Camps - Sommerlager – Engaged Together during Summer
Working on a specific project as part of an international group for two weeks in the summer and learning more about the place, its people and history – that’s a summer camp with ARSP.
ARSP offers international encounter projects every summer. Are you in? If so, you can for two weeks get involved, together with a group of 10 to 20 people from different countries, in a joint project – for example the care of a Jewish cemetery in Lithuania, the design of a memorial path in the Buchenwald memorial or a scenic reading in Berlin . Excursions and joint activities complete the program.
Painting, gardening, building, archiving or creative workshops might be on the program of a summer camp. With or without previous experience: everyone can get involved – you too. What is important is the willingness to set up a project together. In excursions, research and workshops, you and the group will learn more about the history of the place and the biographies of people – for example in the Buchenwald Memorial about people who were persecuted at this place under National Socialism or about Jewish life in Budapest or queer life in Israel.
Summer camps are short but concrete peace services: In addition to the concrete project and the practical work, you will be a part of many encounters between people from different backgrounds and with different perspectives.
“I am very happy that I work with people with disabilities in my voluntary service, because I would like to do social work in the future as well. (…) People with disabilities were persecuted and killed by the Nazis. The people I work with today may not have experienced this time themselves, but many were and are still exposed to discrimination.
ARSP Volunteer at the Diakoniewerk Simeon in Berlin
