Seven Camps, Eight Weeks

Diary of EVS in Duha Local Group Dlažka

I have been an EVS volunteer for 4 months in DUHA organisation, at Czech Republic. My project had 2 parts. The first one was for 2 months in the Local Group Dlažka, Přerov - a small city in Moravia. There I participated in 7 camps for 8 weeks.

My first camp took place in Rajnochovice between 9th and 15 th of July 2007. It was a camp for school students and some of them were from social houses. The name of this camp was “Under the Mexican sun”. The weather was rainy for 3 days and the children could only play indoor games.

Later when the weather was already good we started to organize different games in the forest. One day we went for a trip to Zoo Zlin – Lesna (it is a castle). It was a beautiful place, the biggest zoo in Moravia.


The second camp began on 16 th until the 21 th of July 2007. This one was Czech-Danish Sport camp, for families with their children. I learnt to play one Czech Game – Ringo and I liked this Game. There were different competitions organized every day as well as trips with bicycles. In this camp we went for a trip to Kroměřiš. Very nice place, and castle with beautiful gardens.


The third camp began on 23th until the 29th of July. Its name was “Bahia muzika mia” and was organized for families with children. There were games every morning in the forest for the children. The games for the parents took place in the afternoon. One day we played a night game and the End of this game was in one pub with a beer for free.

After these tree weeks I had to change my place. From Rajnochovice I went to Buchlovice.


The fourth camp was between 30th of July and 05th August 2007, called “Harry Potter”. The camp was only for children between 10 and 14 years old. It was the best camp I had ever since the beginning of my project – full of nice people, great environment and so many funny moments. During the camp I went for Trip to Buchlovice. In the day we arrived started the Garlik Festival in Buchlovice castle. It was very strange for me to see peacocks, these beautifull birds, just sitting on the trees. It was the time when we went to Koričani because there was a swimming pool there.



I participated in the fifth camp from 6th of August 2007 to 19th of August 2007. It was called „Shrek“ and was full of very interesting games. But for me, this camp was not so interesting as I was sick during some time and for me 2 weeks with the same people was a little bit boring.


The sixth camp, started on 20th of August and finished on 24th of August. The Name was „The Secret Island“. Very nice camp, a lot of people, most of the games were with a lot of running because the mission of every camp was to get the children tired. I finished on 24th of August as I had a special trip to Krakow.


The sevent camp started on 27th of August and finished on the second of September 2007. This was the Last camp for Children because on 3th of September they start the school. It was a very hard program for a last camp. The children were between 13-18 years. There were more sport games. Once in the middle of the night we woke up all the children at 12 a.m. and gave them a special present – a bottle from Dlažka.

After 7 camps and 8 weeks in the forest or in the jungle I just want to say that it was Great… a time full of funny moments. I will never forget these children`s eyes looking at me full of questions. This is a Golden Moment in my EVS, and in my life. I will save this moment in my heart as I want to say to everybody when I go back to Bulgaria how many Golden moments I had in the Czech Republic.

Irina