Mid-term (1 to 6 months) "work with children/teenagers" project in Belgium

You will have to help in the different tasks during the summer camps and to meet kids from different age and background.The goal of this volunteering experience is mainly to work with the animation team of Clerheid's School. This means to help the team during the school camps and holiday camps by preparing activities and leading them with the team day by day. They organize several kind of camps and school camps (circus, philosophy and nature, campsites in caravan...) for children from 4 to 13 years old.It will be asked to the volunteers to lead games, to participate to night watches and to help the animation team to offer a serenity framework to children. Musicians, singers, dancers, acrobats, ventriloquists and others artists are warmly welcome !During the project, we would like volunteers to share with the team the everyday life of the school and the maintenance of the domain, especially by doing these tasks :- To take care of the animals (a horse, two donkeys, sheeps and chickens),- To prepare the fields and to repare the fences,- Forest maintenance (picking up, storage of the wood) and of the 12 hectares of field (grassland, stream)- Construction of a dry stone wall.During the month of June, the School will host an international workcamp during three weeks, in order to prepare their summer camps. You will be working with volunteers of the workcamp in order to renovate and securise the wood village which hosts every year hundreds of kids. This enchanting place is the result of the work and imagination of generations of kids and leaders, and today it is extending considerably (more than 20 huts over 2 hectares, a bridge, an amphitheater, a fence...).This aspect of the workcamp will include for instance these tasks :- Reconstruction of the foundation of a wood bridge,- Replacement of worn or damaged boards,- Verification of roofs, walls and floors,- Various wood work.Tasks are enough diverse so that there is something to suit all tastes.

- Volunteers will live in a small cottage, with a kitchen, a bathroom and two bedroom (2 x 4 beds), as well as in a dormitory with a bathroom. Bring your sleeping bag.- Volunteers will either take their lunch with groups during camps or they will cook by themselves in the kitchen at their disposal.

Clerheid's School is located in a hamlet in the province of Luxembourg, in Wallonia, the french speaking part of Belgium. The field of activity is situated between 350 and 550 meters of altitude, away from major roads on a crest of the Ardennes.

- The school is a place quite isolated, where there is a few public transport. The closest town, Marche-en-Famenne is at 30 minutes by car.- Internet and a phone are in a limited access in the office of the organisation.- A project-related motivation letter is required.

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English, French

BRU: Brussels Natl (Brussels, Belgium)Vegetarian food will be available