📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Neige et Merveilles is a preserved site rich in natural, archaeological, mineral, and cultural treasures. This site, having survived a long period of exploitative mining, has housed the association Neige et Merveilles for sixty years. Today, it's a place of welcoming, exchange, and discovery in service of cultural tourism, which is at the heart of the association Neige et Merveilles. You will be a part of the 4th session of a renovation project that started 3 years ago.
💼 What the programme involves
You will participate in renovating a building that houses a multipurpose room reserved for conferences and events, as well as a library. You'll replace the existing roofing and insulate the new roof while double glazing windows to improve the building's energy performance. You will be working four days a week from 08:30 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 17:30 while accompanied by a technical supervisor.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You'll live in a room with 6 other volunteers. Each room will have its own bathroom. Meals are prepared by our kitchen staff, you'll be asked to lend a hand with the preparation of some food, tidying the dining area, and washing the dishes.
📍 About the location
Location: Tende (06430) - 2 hours from Nice by train. The organisation “Neige et Merveilles” is located at an altitude of 1.500 metres in an isolated mountainous area, 10 km from the Closest village of Tende, and 50 km from Vintimille (Italy).
Leisure activities: You'll have the opportunity to explore the regional mountainous environment and participate in sporting activities, a hiking/ guided tour in the “Vallée des Merveilles” in the Mercantour National Park, visit local villages (Tende, La Brigue, Saorge), try out via feratta and ziplining, and in the evenings enjoy dances, photo-video sessions, stargazing, board games, barbecue, international meals etc.
⚠️ Requirements
Possibility of working on scaffolding; low height.