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
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.
The association “Le Créneau” is situated in a little castle in the heart of a large property in the region “Auvergne”. It hosts throughout the whole year people from different cultural and social backgrounds, who work voluntarily. Their aim is to experience a different way of life.
Volunteers will participate in taking care of the place, by renewing the walls of the outbuildings (masonry) and by building a hut in the forest, with traditional materials.
For the 14th year in a row the town of Alençon will welcome a group of international volunteers. The volunteers will be working in the multi-cultural Courteille district, building collective composters. Local institutions try to make the young Alençonnais aware of the environmental protection and sustainable development. By hosting a workcamp, the municipality really wants to create links with the locals through the organization of several environmental actions.
WORK:
Under the municipality support and Concordia, the volunteers will be working on the construction of collective composters for the members of a local organisation called Family Gardens. At the end of the workcamp, you will organize an “open doors day”, an event to promote your activity among the habitants and local partners.
LANGUAGE:
English.
LOCATION:
In the south of Normandy, town district of the department of Orne.
ACCOMODATION:
You will be lodged in collective tents on the camp-site; sanitary facilities in a building; cooking and eating under a big tent outside. Please bring a tent and a sleeping mat, if available.
TERMINAL:
at Alençon train station.
SPECIAL REMARKS:
Teenager workcamp Extra Fee 150 Euros. As the workcamp takes place in an urban area, for practical and eco-friendly reasons, you will ride a bike between your accommodation and the working place.
The Project : The Fumel collectivity is willing to organize an international workcamp in order to restore its patrimony. The object of this project is to have young people of the territory participating to the restoration with you. The work : In the small village of St Avit, you will rebuild a stone wall that borders the cemetery. Web address : http://www.cc dufumelois.com http://www.tourisme fumelois.fr
Work:
The Project : The Fumel collectivity is willing to organize an international workcamp in order to restore its patrimony. The object of this project is to have young people of the territory participating to the restoration with you. The work : In the small village of St Avit, you will rebuild a stone wall that borders the cemetery. Web address : http://www.cc dufumelois.com http://www.tourisme fumelois.fr
The volunteers will participate in the restoration of the historical heritage site of La Ferté sous Jouarre, the world capital of the millstone. The workcamp will take place in a beautiful park, whose wall has to be restored by using traditional methods. Volunteers will also participate to other activities such as gardening, renovating a bread oven, painting.
The volunteers will be hosted on the campsite of the associationat the same time as a group of 12 french volunteers. Activities such as kayaking, biking, international meal, will be organised with the young people. Meeting other young people and the local population is at the heart of the project.
Of course the volunteers will have the opportunity to discover Paris and the surrounding cultural heritage sites.
La Mayounelle is an ancient farm up the hill in the village of Laguépie. The association Citrus is renovating this farm in order to transform it into an international cultural centre. The workcamp will consist in landscaping the surroundings of the farm, through the construction of small stone walls around two little ponds. You will be supervised by a team of dynamic campleaders and a mason/landscaper to learn traditional building techniques. You will also learn some gardening and work on the landscaping of the kitchen garden.
During your spare time, you will have the opportunity to discover the beautiful countryside, the surrounding medieval villages, to swim in the river, to go canoeing and to play many games. Some walks and hikes will lead you to discover caves, wild plants, and to visit some farms and their typical products.
ACCOMODATION:
In tents
LOCATION:
Laguépie is located 100 km North-East of Toulouse and 50 km west of Albi
The association « Centre de Beaumotte » will organize a workcamp that is focused on environmental activities. The main aim is to create nest boxes for different types of birds living and nesting on the shore of the « Saussoir » lake. The nest boxes will help to substitute the natural cavities which tend to disappear. The afternoons will be used to do different kinds of leisure activities organized by campleaders and volunteers together.
Besides the volunteers there will also be other people at Beaumotte whom the volunteers will regularly meet during eating times, cleaning and the preparation of the meals in which the volunteers will participate as well.
ACCOMODATION:
The volunteers will sleep in tents on camp beds.
LOCATION:
Beaumotte les Montbozon is located 25 km from Vesoul and 30 km from Besancon.
« 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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