PROJECT
The educational institution Fontana is a training centre for people with impaired hearing and for deaf people. Sometimes there is the caretaker with his family alone living at the centre, some other weeks the place can get quite crowded with groups of people coming for seminars and trainings. In two previous workcamps volunteers helped the people at Fontana doing various maintenance work. Both the volunteers and the people at Fontana were very happy with the result. For the first time this summer the workcamp at Fontana will consist of a mixed group of international
volunteers: there will be deaf and hearing volunteers working together.

WORK
Beside the two houses belonging to Fontana training centre, there is a small hut. Volunteers will help to renovate it. Volunteers will also do maintenance work in the surrounding areas: to clean up pathways and to collect wood or stones.

LOCATION
The Fontana training centre is situated in Passugg. It’s surrounding: Wood, grassland and mountains. Passugg is close to Chur, a typical Swiss town with 32’300 habitants.

REMARKS / SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
This project is open for deaf people or people with impaired hearing as well as for people without handicap. It’s an excellent opportunity to meet new people and to enhance cultural exchange, not only between different nations but also between the culture of hearing and non-hearing.

LANGUAGE
English and sign language

PICTURES
Here’s the link to the pictures of last year’s workcamp in Passugg:
http://www.workcamp.ch/e/frameset/galleries.htm

CODE: WS062
DATES: 09.07.-23.07.2006
VOLS: 12
LOCATION: Tobel
TYPE: RENO
AGE: 18-30 .. detalii click [sursa]