The volunteers will be integrated into the group of 6-8 long term volunteers of the association. Volunteers can join and quit the project any time.
The community of St. Géniès de Malgoirès owns a park in the heart of the village. For some years now they have started to recondition this park (field clearing, ...). This year, the community wishes to restore the walls of an old channel that once led water to the mill.
This year is the second year of a partnership which has as its goal the restoration of the whole park. The duration of the project might be extended until end of June.
The group will work together with a technical animator and an employee responsible for the maintenance of the park of the community. Volunteers could also create interactive projects or evenings with an 'all-round' association of the village.
ACCOMODATION:
in the hosting center of the association
LOCATION:
Saint Géniès is a small community at 20 km from Nimes and 40 km from Alès.
There is a small garden at Vaunières hosting centre where we grow different varieties of plants. In the autumn 2010, we built terraces in order to extend the garden and we also planted some fruit trees. During this workcamp, we are now going to build a permanent greenhouse in order to develop our farming activities over the year and grow plants which would not grow at 1200m high.
This is the first step of a long term project aiming at improving the quality of our meals and developing creative cooking activities with the groups coming on holidays at the center. This workcamp will be supervised by two permanent staff of our organization and one long term volunteer.
This workcamp offers the opportunity to meet with young people from all over the world, discover a rural way of life, make walks in the mountains, visit some popular places of the region and share many festive moments with all the young people who stay at Vaunières.
ACCOMODATION:
Bedrooms of 5 to 6 people
LOCATION:
Vaunières hosting centre is located 7km far from St Julien en Beauchêne village (Hautes Alpes), 40km from Gap and 200km north from Marseille
In the past, there used to be a still with lavender, a greenhouse, a vegetable garden and a hydraulic ram (mechanic system to provide the farm with potable water) at the Faï farm. These various installations allowed the farmers to diversify their agricultural activities in order to survive in this very isolated place. These tools are now out of use and we are planning to repair them in order to revive the history of the farm and to develop educative activities for our publics. The work will consist in re-building the greenhouse frame, constructing a shelter above the hydraulic ram and laying a concrete slab to put the still with lavender. It is also planned to create footpaths with wooden steps to make these installations accessible for the visitors. This workcamp also offers the opportunity to organize walks in the mountains, to discover the rural way of life and to visit the region. In July, you will be able to get involved in a cultural and musical event named “Festiv Alpages en Pleine Terre” that we are organizing at the Faï and “Café du people” in Veynes.
ACCOMODATION:
Bedrooms of 5 to 6 people (May), camping (July)
LOCATION:
3 km far from le Saix village, 30km from Gap, 200km from Marseille
The Leucate Pond is a pond situated at the border to the Mediterranean sea. It has two sources of fresh water but is also connected to the sea by two channels. This sea-pond is maintained by different organisms like the syndicate RIVAGE which works for the protection of this particular biotope.
The work will consist in removing invasive plants that threaten the balance of the pond's biotope: “the witch's claw”. There will be visits and information meetings for participants in order to discover and be sensitized for this exceptional environment.
ACCOMMODATION:
In tents on a camping site
LOCATION:
40 km from Perpignan and Narbonne, at the sea side. The closest train station is Leucate-La Franqui.
Montendre is a town of 3000 inhabitants that has been home to an international hosting center - La Maison des Bateleurs - for several years. The volunteers hosted here will take part in the project developed by the association. The life will be collective, a global introduction of our organization and functioning will take place at the moment of their arrival, so that the volunteers understand the values of the association, its activities and its logistic.
The volunteers will participate in the improvement of the environmental project present on the structure and in the different projects developed with our local partners. The aim of this project is to develop the pedagogical tools necessary to improve awareness and respect for an environmental way of life (dry-pit toilet, pedagogical garden, etc.). The work will consist of carpentry, traditional masonry or garden work. The volunteers will participate on the workcamps that are going to take place at the international hosting center during their stay (children, teenagers or adults from all kinds of social and geographic backgrounds will be present). The volunteers will also be able to participate in or supervise some creative or cultural activities with the hosted groups. Moreover, they will take part in the logistic organization and the animation of different musical, cultural, theatrical or artistic events in different villages around the center.
The volunteers will work closely with the associations, inhabitants, municipalities and all the people involved in these local events. At last, the volunteers can be involved in international workcamps that take place in the region Poitou-Charente during summer (restoration, artistic, cultural projects) with the partner municipalities.
ACCOMODATION:
Mixed, indoors, hosting center “La Maison des Bateleurs”: a very lively house!
LOCATION:
Montendre, 75 km from the ocean, between Bordeaux and Angoulême
It is the local mission of Tarare, which is working on the social and professional integration of young people of the territory of Amplepuis-Thizy that made the first partnership with Concordia in 2008. They are in cooperation with the local actors who work on youth topics and whose goal is to enable local young people, often away from international mobility opportunities, to participate in international exchanges offered by ConcordiaU s workcamps. In 2008, 2009 and 2010, several young people were integrated successfully in the group of international volunteers. This is why we hope that this year local young people interested to open to the world will live this rewarding human experience. Many actors of the youth policy of the country are mobilized to make sure that the exchanges between young people from nearby villages and the international volunteers will be a success. If you like human and social relationships and you get on well with people, this workcamp is for you. It will be a 4th edition full of meetings, fun and learning.WORK: You will help in the logistics of the 15th edition ot a triathlon organized by the Lac des Sapins Tourism Office. They receive every year around 1000 competitors coming from all over the France. Before the triathlon, you will build up the stands, clear the path and prepare logistical and practical issues. During the triathlon you will make some animation works and you will keep the food stand. After the triathlon you will remove the stand and clean up the path. You will work on the project from to beginning to the end. The triathlon will be the 18 and 19 of june. You will also do some environmental works to make attractive the area of the Lac des Sapins.
Accomodation & food:
Under tents at the camping site next to the lake.
Location & leisure:
The lake called U(Lac des sapinsU is located in the middle of a leisure base, in a wonderful wooded place at 440 meters of altitude and 65km away from Lyon in the North West. For more information, have a look at: www.lacdessapins.fr.
Requirements:
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Age:
18-99
Location:
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Language(s):
English, French
Airport:
new
Trainstation:
To amplepuis train station. airport: paris and lyo
The city of Grigny is pleased to welcome you in the heart of the Parc Saint Lazare, which hosts educational farm and garden. The organisation Etudes ET Chantiers helps people with less opportunities by giving them professional training. In Grigny some of these people follow a market gardener training. You will work with these persons by doing some rehabilitation work in a dynamic of sustainable development.
Work :
Mosaic work, wood wall construction and realisation of a educational solar shower will be the subject of this site. To continue the project conducted in 2010, you will realize a land art wall with recycled materials on the building that welcome each day the people with less opportunities of the association. Participate in the landscaping of the sites! Web address - www.grigny91.fr
Requirements:
This activity gathers both environmental awareness and sustainable development, but you also participate in the enhancement of a working place of a group with less opportunities.
For the fifth year, the Bergerie Nationale (National Sheep Barn) will host international workcamps. The area of this farming organization spreads on 220 ha of cultivated land and there are a lot of animals in the educational farm: cows, horses, pigs, sheeps Each year, the Bergerie Nationale hosts around 10,000 visitors.
Work:
Following the previous workcamps, you will restore one of the surrounding walls. Small masonry work, repainting, cleaning. You will also do some maintenance work of the natural area of the Bergerie Nationale.
« I would recommend participating in a workcamp, especially with VAP, who ensured that I found a project to suit me and provided essential training for me in preparation for my trip. Being part of a workcamp really is a life-changing experience, oh, and it looks great on your CV! »
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