Project: This year was announced a year of local tourism development in a small village of Chkalovo in Zaporizhia province. Local authorities in cooperation with regional tourism club “Tavria” are working on improvements of leisure activities infrastructure and general tourism attractiveness of the area. International volunteers are invited to join local activists and teenagers help with various manual tasks in the village and to help in creating walking/bike paths to the nearby villages.
Work: various tasks in recreational parks in Chkalovo and closest villages: cleaning, cutting bushes, planting flowers, painting benches, rebuilding walking ways; maintenance of playground for kids, other sport grounds. Important part of the project is dedicated to work on tourism routes between the nearby villages. Group will clean the paths, put description tables, mark the path and organize rest places: put benches, tables etc. If you are fond of photography take your camera for taking shots along the routes. They can later be used for the presentations and included to a tourism map of the region. During the project international group will work together with local teenagers. Types of work may vary depending on raw material possibilities as well as weather condition.
Accommodation: in school. Sleeping bag is needed.
Leisure time: Group trips to a mysterious Stone Grave National historic archaeology reserve and to The Popov Castle (a castle-like rural residence turned in 1993 into a historical architecture museum) are planned for a week-end. You may as well discover the city of Zaporizhia and Khortitsia island situated in the middle of the city and believed to be a cradle of Ukrainian Cossacks. Meetings with locals will be organized through the workcamp program and you will have a chance to go for cultural exchange and enjoy Ukrainian local food and hospitality traditional for the region as well.
What to bring: sleeping bag and mat, caps with peak and sunglasses, sun-protection lotion, mosquito repellent, medical insurance is obligatory to have.
Drums, guitars and other musical support are very welcome. Pictures, stories, CDs, national foods and drinks etc. for the great cultural exchange!
Location: village Chkalovo, Vesele region, Zaporizhia province, southeastern Ukraine. The village is located about 20km from Vesele, 142 km from Zaporizhia and about 130 km from the Sea of Azov.
Terminal: Zaporizhia train station.
Nearest airport: Boryspil airport (near Kiev).
Special requirements: 1) Motivation letter is required! 2) please notice that project location is a typical Ukrainian rural area, work may be physically demanding sometimes, that’s why we ask you to write a short motivation letter showing your interest in the project and willingness to take the challenge.
Language: English.