Baltic Sea Nõva Summer Team Estonia 27.7.-11.8.26

Nõva Summer Team Estonia Project

This volunteering team will take place in a picturesque little village of Nõva at seashore in the North-West of Estonia.

Host organisation EstYES has  organised local and international youth camps together with the sport club Lukas Basket for about 15 years. The venue, connected to local primary school and its sport hall, has a large ground (3 ha) with wooden huts, where participants are accommodated, cantina, washing facilities and toilets, sauna, garden and a lot of sport facilities (trampolines, bikes, nets for volleyball, table tennis sets, etc.).

Work

The main focus of work will be on seashore cleaning on the mainland as well as on the small islands nearby such as Suur Pakri and Osmussaar.  This work will be organised in cooperation with local forestry department and municipality of Nõva.

The volunteering team will express solidarity with the local community and contribute to intergenerational co-operation and wellbeing by cleaning and tidying up public areas and parks as well as helping elderly people living in Nõva in some household and garden duties and doing some maintenance such as painting work with the camp site.  The volunteers might also collect berries and herbs for senior population and plant pine trees.

To promote sustainability we will also organise info events and a workshop on waste management with ideas how to reduce, reuse, and recycle things instead of just throwing away.  Volunteers are welcome to share their ideas on sustainability and learn from practices in other countries. During team we will learn more about the state of Baltic Sea by experts. 

In wooden huts on bunk-beds. A sleeping bag is required.  All facilities like showers, toilets are provided at the school. There is also a traditional Estonian sauna. Food will be cooked by a professional cook in the school kitchen and served to volunteers. WiFi is available at local shop and cafe .  There is no electric supply in the huts, but at the school .

Location

Nova is one of 11 municipalities of Läänemaa with about 400 inhabitants, located on the seaside 90 km west from Tallinn, capital of Estonia  and 40 km north from Haapsalu, a famous spa town with many historic and cultural sites.  

Leisure time

There is plenty of possibilities for sport and other activities: ball games - football, rugby, volleyball, athletics, table tennis, archery, frisbee, disc-golf, trampolines, forest cross, forest hikes, fishing, bicycle trips to explore the area, visits to the historical places of interest  in the area, picnics on a seaside, building sand and stones castles on the beach, Estonian sauna party, etc. Bikes are available for the whole camp duration. Trips to local seaside towns such as Haapsalu https://www.visithaapsalu.com/en/  nearby or visit to the capital Tallinn www.visittallinn.ee/eng can be organized on days off. It is planned to take a boat trip to islands nearby to explore the  Baltic Sea.