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
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.
My summer in Cerey, a place for cultural events, meetings and social diversity. For 10 dayss, you will participate, with numerous other organisations, to the event organised by the city of Riom and called Mon été au Cerey (My summer in Cerey). The Cerey is the urban and sportive park where, along the days, are scheduled sports or leisure animations, artistic workshops, theatre performances, concerts, etc. With a group of people in a professional integration course, you will help manage the logistics of the event. Your ideas and talent will have their place in the creation of surprise animations.
The town aims at reaching the largest number of inhabitants, whatever their age or social status, and to give them access to a large range of sportive or cultural animations. More information on the Riom city and its projects - www.ville riom.fr
Work :
You will be part of the organizing team and participate to the 10 days of the Mon été au Cerey event. You will bring your help to the logistics : equipment installation, welcoming of the public, refreshment area, tidying up and cleaning, etc. You will also take part in the programming of animations. The international volunteers team will prepare and realise an artistic creation which will highlight the theme of interculturality (you will have to define in which form : music, theatre, sculpture). You will have free hands to organise surprise animations depending on your ideas and abilities !
Web address - http:
//www.ville riom.fr/
Requirements:
various artistic talents, abilities in craft activities, ideas and creativity are welcome ! Anyone ready to involve themselves will have a place in the project. The life in a festival is often hectic and days could be long. This workcamp is different from the others! You have to be available and to know how to react facing emergency situations. You will work in the evening when there are concerts and shows. You will work with people in an integration course.
The town of Chelles has a privileged location. Less than 20 km from the heart of Paris, it is yet a green town along the Marne, the gateway to the countryside.For the fourth consecutive year Chelles will host a group of international volunteers.This year we will focus our actions on the urban environment to help this town to create new solidaritiesConvinced that sustainable development is a source of collective welfare, convinced that the workcamp is a real way for social cohesion, we immediately was captivated by this project.WORK: With a technical leader, you will create some spaces in the town to improve the local population surroundings. You will organise some awareness workshops for locals and children too. Thanks to a partnership with a U(AMAPU (U(Association pour le Maintien de lU Agriculture PaysanneU(= U(Community Supported AgricultureU ) you will be aware of agriculture issues and you will give a hand to this organisation called U(Dhuis et MarneU(.
With this workcamp, Citrus invites you to enter the particular world of an Emmaüs community, the solidarity movement created by the famous Abbé Pierre in 1954. The community is a solidarity hosting, living and working place, through the activity of collecting and recycling objects and furnitures, run by the Compagnons, who are the community inhabitants, often coming from difficult social situations.
During 3 weeks you will share these activities in the various workshops. You will also paint and decorate the community clubhouse. You will take part in the Solidarity Week, consisting in debates and films shows about the working world.
2011 being the year of Volunteering, this topic will also be discussed. Your vision of the working world in your country is welcome, you can bring newspapers, films or any support you want to contribute with.
As this community is situated in the countryside near the village of La Ville-Dieu du Temple, the leisure time will allow you to discover the beautiful surrounding towns of Montauban and its museums, Castelsarrasin, Moissac and their surprising historical heritage, and some sports activities such swimming, hiking, bike-riding or canoeing.
ACCOMODATION:
In dormitories in a community building
LOCATION:
La Ville-Dieu du Temple is located 13 km West of Montauban and 65 km North of Toulouse
For this first workcamp in Champs-sur-Marne, the volunteers will participate to the development of the “Two Parks” area. This popular and lively neighbourhood already benefits from communal gardens and an educational garden.
The goal of the workcamp is to create a sports course in the heart of the area. With local young people, the recreation center and different partner organizations, the volunteers will also organize activities in the neighbourhood. They will also have the opportunity to discover Paris and the local cultural heritage.
ACCOMMODATION:
The volunteers will be accommodated in a room, about 15 minutes from the place of the workcamp.
The Project : We will reinforce the strong dynamic which started in 2008 until 2010 around the Moulin de Cordouen. This workcamp is a unique project where international volunteers will be associated with employees in social inclusion to work together all along the workcamp. We wish to contribute to restore the valley of St Calais du Dsert, this beautiful countryside and with a particular heritage! The 2 teams (international volunteers and employees in social inclusion) will be mixed during the working time with the opportunity to know better each other and create a different exchange for this wonderful and useful adventure! The link with local population will be strong as well during the preparation of an event on environmental aspect and festive perspective. The work : You will follow the work initiated in 2008 for the preservation of environmental surroundings of the mill. This year you will contribute in the restoration of the banks of the river Mayenne, just near the mill. Works will be organised in collaboration with the social inclusion workers in order to clean a footpath. Then you will contribute to the care of a part of the hedge with a special and ecological technique. You will be asked to organise an event on an environmental theme and on a more festive side in order to exchange and meet the local population of St Calais du Dsert. Web address : www.parc naturel normandie maine.fr www.tourisme mayenne.com
Work:
The Project : We will reinforce the strong dynamic which started in 2008 until 2010 around the Moulin de Cordouen. This workcamp is a unique project where international volunteers will be associated with employees in social inclusion to work together all along the workcamp. We wish to contribute to restore the valley of St Calais du Dsert, this beautiful countryside and with a particular heritage! The 2 teams (international volunteers and employees in social inclusion) will be mixed during the working time with the opportunity to know better each other and create a different exchange for this wonderful and useful adventure! The link with local population will be strong as well during the preparation of an event on environmental aspect and festive perspective. The work : You will follow the work initiated in 2008 for the preservation of environmental surroundings of the mill. This year you will contribute in the restoration of the banks of the river Mayenne, just near the mill. Works will be organised in collaboration with the social inclusion workers in order to clean a footpath. Then you will contribute to the care of a part of the hedge with a special and ecological technique. You will be asked to organise an event on an environmental theme and on a more festive side in order to exchange and meet the local population of St Calais du Dsert. Web address : www.parc naturel normandie maine.fr www.tourisme mayenne.com
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