Commemorating as a way towards peace! The Evangelical parish of Datteln is the origin of a Christian Peace Movement, which builds up a European network for international encounters and voluntary service as a contribution to peace. The Parish of Datteln aims to remember a historical event, which took place after World War I during the French occupation of the Ruhr area. It happened on Good Friday in 1923 in Lutherhaus (former parish center): the French lieutenant Etienne Bach and the German official Karl Wille found the strength for reconciliation. Following their example, representatives of many nations, which could see each other only as enemies for generations, found a good way to communicate. The root of the movement “Youth Action for Peace, YAP“ lies in this international encounter that took place more than 90 years ago. Lots of volunteers have learned that reconciliation is possible, even if contradictions seem to be unbridgeable.
İş Tanımı
In the last workcamps with the help of the local artist Ms. Ulrike Speckmann, volunteers created colorful messages of peace, which were shown in public places. For example, they designed „benches of encounter“, a “table of peace and reconciliation” also a big mural in the local kindergarden. And again, the artist is happy to help you to get in a creative process of painting and designing. For information about the artist, please visit http://ulrike-speckmann.de/.
This year there will be offered a graphic art project in the first week. It will be based on the short story "Nachts schlafen die Ratten doch" (English title "Rats Sleep at Night") by Wolfgang Borchert, written in 1947 right after Second World War. It is considered as "Rubble literature" and shows how a future perspective can emerge for the traumatised boy in the midst of a destroyed environment when two strangers meet. and talk together. Volunteers are to translate the short story into picture ideas, which can then be graphically designed using the linocut technique. The result will be a graphic novel in book form, which we can be printed in a small edition.
In the second week, volunteers will work to maintain and beautify the outdoor facilities of the "Johanneswerk". This mainly means gardening workIt is planed to create a herb bed/ herb spiral, which will later be tended and harvested by our residents and visitors to the day care centre. The individual tasks of the participants therefore include: Buying and transporting materials, Earthworks (removing weeds, cleaning the area, preparing the soil for the construction of the herb spiral, masonry work or piling up stones, Filling the spiral with soil, Planting the spiral/bed. The Johanneswerk is an institution for adults with mental disabilities. Some of you will be curious to get in touch with the participants.
Konaklama ve Yemek
The participants will be accommodated in the modern community center of Datteln „Etienne-Bach-Haus“. Please bring with you a sleeping bag. Camp beds and pillows will be provided.
Address: Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Pevelingstr. 30 45711 Datteln
Konum ve Serbest Zaman
Excursions to local places of interest, like crossing 4 channels and other sites.
Notlar
Volunteers with interest in creative arts and social work are very welcome. After confirmation of placement in this camp, you will have to sign a self-commitment statement in terms of legal protection for children and vulnerable persons. Please bring a sleeping bag.
