Chebocksary (Chuvashia region), RussiaVSU-NN 07 (1 – 10 February 2008)
Hello dear friends! You are welcome to our workcamp! Please, bring pleasant and windy moods!
The most important thing for you – it’s to get to the workcamp, so here you can find travel directions. It’s not the easiest thing to do if you don’t speak Russian. But all our volunteers in previews years got to the workcamps. 😉
http://sodvo.ru/wp-content/Logologo-3.png00Demyanofhttp://sodvo.ru/wp-content/Logologo-3.pngDemyanof2008-01-21 21:41:042008-01-25 21:49:13here you can find travel directions to get to out camp
Hello everyone, it’s Katherine, from Quebec Canada !
I received an email from Sasha today who told me about the web site, and here I am ! I saw the pictures of summer camp 2007, you had a lot of fun I think !
I remember all of you, my trip in Sodrujestvo in 2006 was incredible, such an experience ! Last summer, I went to Japan, another fantastic country.
I hope you’re all going well and, if you have time, give me news ! Olya, Sasha told me that you are a married woman now ? Congratulations !!!!!!! I wish you all the best !
The camp was a bicycle recycling project which was taking place
in the city park of Becej — a town of 26’000 inhabitants, 50km from Novi Sad, with accommodation in tents and with a garage equipped with kitchen stuff to serve as a kitchen.We took remnants of old bicycles which had been collected for our camp to be recycled.One day some local professional and amateur bike workers came with theirtools and skills to help the camp and wemanaged to have enoughcomplete bikes for all foreign volunteers for a common trip to the countryside on Sunday… And the repaired bikes will be given to some low income inhabitants of Becej.The camp communityconsisted of about 20 people, half local
teenagers and half international volunteers (Britain, Denmark, Belgium,Spain, Bask country, Sicily, Bulgaria, Chech republic, Poland,
Switzerland). One of my little problems: Me, a well known chayny alkogolic, i was in 3 Supermarkets and could not find a single bag of black tea; Serbians only drink coffee, and I survived on some remnants of tea bags I happened to have brought with me from Hungary …There were 2 very beautiful and interesting excursions to river
Tisa (gorgious nature) and the youth centre in the neighbouring town
Novi Becej.Local volunteers took us to going out in the city where we met a lotof nice young people and were warmly and gorgiously accepted.The local authorities received us warmly and interested in the cityparliament hall, which was quite motivating.There was another interesting excursion to a private rakia factory(allowed in
Serbia, unlike in EU)
.One day some VCV contacts from Novi Sad brought 12
handicaped/challenged children (who normally have to spend all their
days with their mothers as there are still no public leisure or work
programmes for them in Serbia) to us to spend their day with us with
songs, games and other activities; this was the best and most useful day for all of us involved.My impressions are mixed and colourful like Balkans and Vojvodina!
http://sodvo.ru/wp-content/Logologo-3.png00sasha charlotkahttp://sodvo.ru/wp-content/Logologo-3.pngsasha charlotka2007-09-05 10:48:352007-09-13 18:04:13Impressions of Manuel Ott from his workcamp in Serbia this summer