For volunteers

Information for volunteers about volunteering in 2025 in Gerviniai, Lithuania.

Google maps Gerviu Lizdas (Crane’s nest)Volunteers are invited to come and live here for more than a week between the 1st of May and the 1st of November.

Our campsite “Crane’s nest” is located in Trakai district, Gerviniai village. It is surrounded by lakes, mounds, historical sites and old forests. It is truly a place of extraordinary beauty and energy.

Our team includes about 30 active volunteers who are constantly involved in community development, events, social projects. About 200 volunteers from all over Lithuania and abroad take part in the activities each year. Therefore, you are very welcome to our nest. For volunteers staying longer than three days we provide food and accommodation. We can accept up to 10 volunteers at a time. We speak four languages: Lithuanian, Russian, English.

We are sincere, open, funny, guided by the principles of sustainable consumption, sorting trash, conserving and cleaning nature, planting trees and cherishing forests, collecting and recycling plastic.

Information for volunteers about 2025 events in the Crane’s Nest

  1. “Crane’s nest” opens for volunteering on 26, 27 April. This weekend, we will prepare 2 tons of plastic bottle caps for removal, clean the area, rake leaves, chop and stack firewood.
  2. Spring volunteering week 6 – 18 May. Preparation for “Gerviniai mushroom gathering” festival. Preparation and decoration of the territory for education of schools, garden work, construction of the “Charlatania” witches’ house.
  3. Second spring clean-up 12 – 13 May. Setting up mini mushroom towns from stones, moss and logs, forming footpaths. 
  4. “Gerviniai mushroom gathering” festival. 16 – 18 May. Weekend for families.
  5. 19 May – 20 June on weekdays – education students.
  6. Volunteer weekends 31 May – 6 July. Weekends for families. Ordered lunch in BARN, program for children.
  7. Summer volunteer weeks 13 – 20 July. Anyone who wants to volunteer is welcome. A group of volunteers from abroad will arrive. Creating a mini mushroom town.
  8. Volunteers are welcome to children’s summer camps to help in the kitchen or doing workshops: RINGS camp. 12 – 19 July. CINEMA camp. 26 July – 2 August. FRIENDS camp. 9 – 16 August.
  1. August cleanup in “Gervių lizde”, 23, 24 August. We will clean the cabins and the territory after the camps, and we transform the spaces and rooms for the activities of the “Mushroom Park”.
  2. Autumn volunteering week 8 – 13 September. Preparation for the opening of the “Mushroom Park”.
  3. Autumn education for students 15 September – 24 October. 
  4. Volunteers of “Grybų Park” activity: for territory management, maintenance of premises, maintenance of order. 13 September – 26 October,  Thursday – Saturday 17 – 22.30, Sunday – 3 – 9 p.m. 
  5. Autumn volunteering week 27 October – 3 November. Handling of the territory, closing of the “Crane’s Nest” season.
  6. If you come to work and live in the “Crane’s Nest” for a week and more the cost for meals and accommodation is 22 eur per day. We make vegetarian food tree time per day for all volunteers.
  7. We constantly collect funds for the development of the Crane’s Nest, the care of oak trees, and scholarships for children’s camps (for those children whose parents cannot pay for camps: these are large, socially vulnerable families, difficult teenagers). You can donate to VsI “Draugiski seimai”, organization code: 302307136, LT077300010114213065 Purpose of payment – charity.

If you would like to join our extensive team of volunteers, write to ekodaiktai@gmail.com or call +37061812181