For information about the deployment sites in Belgium please contact:

ijgd Hildesheim
Tel.: 0049-5121-206 61-100
ifd.nord@ijgd.de

Hadruplund (Hundslund)

• Supporting with the care and supervision of children and youth with a mental or physical disability in a therapeutic pedagogy and anthroposophy oriented community.

Tornsbjerggaard (Hundslund)

• Accompanying and supporting adults with a psychological disability in a living and working community based on anthroposophical ideas with various workshops (weaving mill, pottery, garden).

 Midgaard (Fünen)

• Accompanying and supporting people with disabilities in an anthroposophical residential and working community. (Minimum age: 20 years old)

Bildungszentrum (Rodekro)

• Assistance in an education, meeting and recreation centre of the German minority in Southern Denmark. This centre is used by groups from Germany, Denmark and other European countries. Supporting guests, organisation of activities and helping out with all general work.
   

Click here to apply for the IJFD in Denmark via the ijgd office in Hildesheim.

PS: you already have contacts in your country of choice or possibly you already have a specific deployment site or project in mind? Then contact us as early as possible, so that we can first clarify whether the institution meets the requirements of the IJFD.

Kindergarten/primary school for children with disabilities (Tallinn, Vörumaa)

• Supporting staff with supervision and care, providing social skills during class etc.

Home for children and young adults without parents

• Assistance in supervision and organisation of leisure activities for the residents, some of whom have physical or intellectual disabilities.

To apply for the IJFD in Estonia via the ijgd office in Bonn, click here.

Integration centre for youth (Beauvoisin, Montendre)

• Assistance with the supervision and support of the socially disadvantaged youth, aiding with craft projects and ecological projects.

L'Arche – a christian living and working community for people with disabilities (Trosly, Breuil, Courbillac, Beauvais, Ambleteuse etc.)

• Living and working in a community for people with and without physical or intellectual disabilities. Assistance in the care, supervision and organisation of leisure activities of inhabitants, also aiding with gardening and manual work.

Educational facilities for groups of children and youth (Neuwiller-les-Savernes, Niederbronn-les-Bains)

• Development of a one or more day learning event for school classes with a focus on: history, archeology, aiding with the serving of food and with manual work.

Homes for people with an intellectual or physical disability (Cernay)

• Assistance with the care, supervision and organisation of leisure activities for the inhabitants of the home.

Facilities for the care and support of people without a permanent place of residence (Lille)

• Assistance in a home for people without a permanent place of residence (also for people who have committed criminal offenses), support in the serving of food, possibly also helping with nursing or with janitorial duties.

Click here to apply for the IJFD in France via the ijgd office in Bonn.

GER-Mani (Gythio)

• Assistance in a community based project for German youth, who have no possibility of living with their family anymore. Volunteers help with the development of a community centre and guest house, with the agricultural part of the project and in the workshop (wood, electronic and sanitary section).

Click here to apply for the IJFD in Greece via the ijgd office in Magdeburg.

Camphill – a Christian living and residential community for people with disabilities

• Living and working in a community for people with and without a mental or physical disability, helping with care, support and recreational activities of inhabitants, also helping with gardening and other manual work.

Residential homes for senior citizens

• Assistance with nursing tasks, assistance with the intake of meals and with recreational activities.

Arche – Christian living and residential community for people with a disability

• Living and working in a community for people with or without a disability, helping with the care, with support and recreational activities for inhabitants, also helping with gardening and other manual work.

Click here to apply for the IJFD in Great Britain via the ijgd office in Bonn.

Camphill – a Christian living and residential community for people with disabilities

• Living and working in a community for people with and without a mental or physical disability, helping with the care, support and recreational activities of inhabitants, also heping with gardening and other manual work.

Arche – Christian living and residential community for people with a disability

• Living and working in a community for people with or without a disability, helping with the care, with support and recreational activities for inhabitants, also helping with gardening and other manual work.

Click here to apply for the IJFD in Ireland via the ijgd office in Bonn

AKIM – facility for disabled people (Jerusalem)

• Support and assistance for people with disabilities in living communities, a residential home and a primary school for mentally disabled children, supporting with the daily routine, accompaniment during recreational activities and outings, supervision of primary school children during the afternoon programmes, depending on the disability also helping with nursing activities.

ALYN Hospital – children's clinic (Jerusalem)

• Supporting clinic staff in daily routine tasks, nursing and supporting activities like helping with eating, showering, assistance during recreational activities of patients.

Carmel Medical Center – hospital (Haifa)

• Supporting clinic staff with daily routine tasks, nursing and personal assistance of patients, performing an ECG test, assistance in an international team.

French Hospital – hospital (Jerusalem)

• Assistance in the St. Louis Hospital, a hospice for the terminally ill and a care facility for chronically ill people and other patients, supporting hospital staff in their daily work, assistance in a large multinational team.

Kfar Hassidim youth village (near Haifa)

• Assistance in an (orthodox) youth village, manual and agricultural tasks on the premises, supporting in the kitchen, supervision of children and youth, possibly assistance in the school (teaching English).

Kibbutz Lotan (South of Israel)

• Assistance in a kibbutz situated in the desert Negev, where 200 people live in a community. In the kibbutz many projects and activities in the fields of environmental protection and ecological agriculture are offered. Volunteers' tasks especially include assistance in the cowshed, in the dairy and support with the care of the cows.

Kindergarten Kibbutz Lotan (South of Israel)

• Care for children aged between three months and six years. The volunteers' tasks include looking after the children, helping with games and activities, and preparing events and celebrations.

Ecological Centre Kibbutz Lotan (South of Israel)

•  The volunteers guide tourists through the centre of the kibbutz, write articles (in German) and publish content on social media.

Loewenstein Rehabilitation Hospital (Ra`anana)

• Assistance of hospital staff in their daily tasks, accompanying patients to their therapy sessions and medical treatments, supporting with the food service, supporting with food intake, assistance at the reception area.

Click here to apply for the IJFD in Israel via the ijgd office in Berlin.

Azienda Servizi Sociale Bolzano (Bozen)

• Working together with the social workers, organising cultural activities for senior citizens, taking part in workshops, assistance with shopping and assistance with nursing, distribution of meals, administrative work.

Casa Nogaré/ Casa Clero/ Casa Perez – retirement home (Verona)

• Social support for elderly people in retirement homes and for people with mental and physical disabilities. Assistance in daily routines, distribution of meals, animation, outings, transport and accompaniment to church services.

Cooperativa sociale Kaleidoscopio (Trento)

• Working in the sector of social and pedagogical activities with children and youth aged between 3 and 18 years. Field of activities include activities after and during school as well as in the recreational area.

Cooperativa Verlata (Villaverla near Verona)

• Social support and training for people with disabilities, assistance in the day centre and support with tasks in daily routines.

Disabilty assistance at a university (Padua)

• Assistance for students with a disability in their daily life at university: picking them up at home, accompanying them to lectures and to the canteen.

Istituto Don Calabria (Rom)

• Social support for people with disabilities and people in need, assistance in distribution of meals, assistance in the day centre as well support during recreational activities and tasks in daily routines.

SOS Children's Village (Saronno)

• Assistance of children to school and accompanying them during recreational activities, helping them with their homework, organising leisure activities (drawing, sport, games etc.), helping in the kitchen: shopping, doing the dishes, preparing of meals.

Venerabile Confraternita di Misericordia (Sinalunga, Tuscany)

• Active in transport: accompaniment of senior citizens and people with disabilities to doctors, other appointments and to clinics, helping with shopping of groceries, medication etc.

Piccola Fratenita di Porto Legnago (near Verona)

• Support, care and assistance for people with disabilities in leisure activities, workshops and supportive measures.

South Tyrolean Children's Village (Brixen)

• Work in the children's and youth housing communities, in mobile family work and/or in the home for single mothers. Fields of work are, for example, assistance and support in the everyday life of the children/young people and in the everyday life of the women.

Click here to apply for the IJFD in Italy via the ijgd office in Berlin.

The programme IJFD in Japan runs in cooperation with the German Japanese Peace Forum Berlin (Deutsch-Japanisches Friedensforum Berlin e.V.) and under the patronage of the German Embassy in Tokyo.

Akane (Himeji, Amagasaki near Osaka)

• The sponsor Akane has a number of institutions for senior citizens in both towns. The main tasks include cleaning, preparing and serving of meals, support with recreational activities of users of the facilities as well as assistance with the care of senior citizens.

Dejima Kunikusa (Hiroshima)

• Assistance in an old age home (long and short-term care). The main task includes the assistance during recreational activities for residents of the nursing home and for those people who use the facilities of the day care centre connected to the old age home.

International Gospel League/IGL (Hiroshima)

• Working in a kindergarten and day care centre of the IGL, assistance during the daily routine, helping the educators. As the IGL is in charge of a number of facilities, volunteers work half the time in a kindergarten and the other half in a day care centre.

Kyoto Utano Youth Hostel, Osaka International Youth Hostel & Shin-Osaka Youth Hostel

• Assistance in the youth hostel, assistance with the organisation and maintenance in the house (cleaning duties, room cleaning), giving information to travelers, assistance during children's', youth and youth group's outdoor activities.

Kusanomi Picthouse (Hatsukaichi near Hiroshima)

• Workshop for people with disabilities. The volunteer supports the staff of the workshop in the daily routines with the people with disabilities, e.g. with the baking of cakes and biscuits, woodwork, weaving and vegetable growing.

Mori No Kobo AMA (Hirsohima)

• Workshop for people with disabilities. Volunteers support the staff of the workshop for people with disabilities during the daily routines.

WING - Way Into the New Generation (Osaka)

• The non-profit organisation WING has three day care centres in the urban area of Osaka. This organisation is concentrated mainly on the work with people with severe multiple disabilities. Volunteers support the institution in helping to enable a life that goes beyond a mere basic nursing care for the people in the day care centre.

Due to the aftermaths of the earthquake, the tsunami and the resulting power plant accidents, the continuation of projects since the cycle 2011-2012 in the regions Kansai and Hiroshima have been limited. The allocations for the cycle 2015-2016 will be expanded as soon as the security situation allows it.
 
More information regarding the German Japanese Peace Forum Berlin (Deutsch-Japanischen Friedensforum Berlin) and the history of the project is to be found > on this website.
 We advise you to read this > information on the IJFD Japan before applying.
Finally, click here to apply for the IJFD in Japan via the ijgd office in Berlin.

In Jordan we offer deployment sites in the education sector and in the sector of working with people with disabilities.
More information regarding these deployment sites can be found here shortly.
If you have questions you can give us a call in our ijgd Berlin office.

Click here to apply for the IJFD in Jordan via the ijgd office Berlin.

Hohepa Hawkes Bay (Napier)

• Accompanying and supporting people with disabilities in an anthroposophical living and working community with workshops and living areas, assistance with the daily routines of residents.

Click here to apply for the IJFD in New Zealand via the ijgd office in Hildesheim.

PS: Do you already have contacts in a country of your choice or do you maybe already know of a specific deployment site that you would like to visit? Then please contact us as early as possible so that we are able to clarify whether the institution meets the requirements of the IJFD.

Camphill – a Christian residential and living community for people with disabilities

• Living and working in a community for people with or without a mental or physical disability, assistance with the care, support and recreational activities of residents, also assistance in the garden and other manual work.

Click here to apply for the IJFD in Norway via the ijgd office in Bonn.

In Palestine we offer deployment sites in the education sector, in the sector of working with youth as well as in theatre.
Further information regarding deployment sites in Palestine are to be found here shortly. If you have questions please feel free to contact us via the ijgd office in Berlin.

Click here to apply for the IJFD in Palestine via the ijgd office in Berlin.

For information about the deployment sites in Portugal please contact:

ijgd Berlin
Sandra Gauss
0049-30-6120313-40
ifd.berlin@ijgd.de

Work with children and youth (Panciu)

• Assistance in an organisation that offers educational and care services for children and youth. A main focus lies on the support and integration of children of Roma families.

Click here to apply for the IJFD in Romania via the ijgd office in Bonn.

Salecina (Canton of Graubuenden)

• Assistance in an alternative holiday resort and education centre in the Swiss Alps (close to Maloja), looking after guests, seminar offers, janitorial duties.

Stiftung Tiere in Not - Animal Help (Canton of Schaffhausen)

• Assistance in a support facility/animal sanctuary (also for farm animals: horses, cows, goats) close to Zurich, helping out employees with the caretaking of animals, feeding and cleaning, assistance during veterinarian visits, administrative tasks.

Click here to apply for the IJFD in Switzerland via the ijgd office in Hildesheim.


PS: Do you already have contacts in a country of your choice or do you maybe already know of a specific deployment site that you would like to visit? Then please contact us as early as possible so that we are able to clarify whether the institution meets the requirements of the IJFD.

German/Swiss schools and kindergartens in various cities (such as Barcelona, Valencia, Gran Canaria)

• Accompanying and supporting teachers during class and assistance with the children: supervision, accompaniment and assistance during festivities or excursions; getting the children acquainted with the German language, the working language is German.
  (There are no positions left for this deployment site in 2015!)

Initiative for children and kindergartens (Barcelona, Madrid and other places)

• Accompanying and supporting educators in groups, playing with the children, assistance with eating, sleeping, putting on diapers, nursing activities, engagement in language groups: German, English, Catalan and others. (There are no positions left for this deployment site in 2015!)

Click here to apply for the IJFD in Spain via the ijgd office in Hildesheim.

PS: Do you already have contacts in a country of your choice or do you maybe already know of a specific deployment site that you would like to visit? Then please contact us as early as possible so that we are able to clarify whether the institution meets the requirements of the IJFD.

SPORTS for Exceptional Athletes (S4EA) (San Diego, CA)

• Assistance and support in a sports club for people with disabilities, various sport disciplines, leisure, training groups, assistance in the office. Important: the minimum age requirement is 19 years and knowledge of HTML is a requirement.

Casa de Los Amigos (San Diego, CA)

• Assistance in two small residential facilities for people with disabilities (children, youth and adults); realisation of social activities such as reading, playing, accompanying of small or large excursions or to sport activities or therapies; preparation of meals and assistance with food intake.
  (There are no positions left for this deployment site in 2015!)

Camphill – anthroposophical living community for people with disabilities ( in Pennsylvania and New York State amongst other places)

• Accompaniment and assistance of youth as well as adults with a disability in an anthroposophical living and working community with workshops (weaving, pottery, gardening) and living spaces. Important: the minimum age requirement is 19 or 21 years.

Circus Harmony (St. Louis, MO)

• A circus project for children and youth, assistance of circus groups, carrying out activities. Important: you need to have practical experience and knowledge of the work in a circus.
  (There are no positions left for this deployment site in 2015!)

Circus Mojo (Ludlow, KY)

• Circus project for various target groups, supervision of various activities and projects. Important: you need to have practical experience and knowledge of the work in a circus.

Pendle Hill (Wallingford, PA)

• Training centre and community centre of the religious community of Quakers, assistance in the garden and the kitchen as well as taking care of guests. Important: the minimum age requirement lies at 19 years and you need to have a driver's license.

Project Hospitality (New York City, NY)

• Facility for socially disadvantaged people in Staten Island; fundraising, soup kitchen, various campaigns for public relations work. Important: you need to be male and over 19 to take part in this programme and having a driver's license is a requirement.
  (There are no positions left for this deployment site in 2015!)

Click here to apply for the IJFD in the USA via the ijgd office in Hildesheim
 
PS: Do you already have contacts in a country of your choice or do you maybe already know of a specific deployment site that you would like to visit? Then please contact us as early as possible so that we are able to clarify whether the institution meets the requirements of the IJFD.