Feel the Forest 2025
Nuorisokeskus Metsäkartano
Rautavaara, Finland
Description
Our youth center Metsäkartano is located next to a National Park, surrounded bylakes, forests and swamps. We are an outdoor education youth center and resortdoing activities in the surrounding nature with our pedagogical staff. In this project the volunteers work daily with tasks related to preserving and creating new outdoor spaces in the forest which are used in our educational programmes. Some tasks can be indoors as well, especially when rainy weather. More detailed tasks will be shared day by day. Best is to join the project with a curious mind and a good attitude, and flexibility to work together. Volunteers work never alone, always with a work leader and each other.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
Volunteers will live in a shared log cabin called METSÄPIRTTI. Metsäpirtti is 400m away from the main building and it has 6 rooms and a common living room, kitchen and showers and a sauna. Volunteers will be sharing rooms, it is very likely that each volunteer will share the room with one more person. Breakfast and lunch are often served in our youth center restaurant. Evenings and weekends volunteers either eat in the restaurant buffet, or they get ingredients to prepare their own meals in their own house.
Training during the activity
There will be training to all the work tasks and to live and work together. Also knowledge about the surrounding nature and nature survival will be provided for the volunteers.
Participant profile
We invite participants 18-30 years old to join this activity. We are committed to organize the volunteering as widely accessible as possible, taking into account on top of physical accessibility also social accessibility. We can organize extra support for volunteers should they need it. But profile of the volunteer and possible special needs must be described already in the application.
Activity dates
From 21/07/2025 to 08/08/2025
Activity location
Metsäkartanontie 700, Rautavaara, Finland
Activity type
Volunteering teams
Looking for participants from
Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden
Activity topics
Environment and natural protection
Health and wellbeing
Deadline for applications
No application deadline