Abbaye de Maredret
Belgium
Environment
Manual work
Environment
Manual work
Fixed dates
About the project
Abbaye de Maredret
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The non-profit organization of “Abbaye des Saints Jean et Scholastique” is directly connected with the Maredret’s Abbey, a high patrimonial and cultural value of Belgium.
This partnership is built on the will to preserve this patrimonial heritage and to create dialogue between volunteers working for a pluralist association and a local catholic community, each person being accepted with his/her convictions and personal point of view.
Beside its spiritual life, the association organizes activities and creative workshops for everybody interested. The main part of the activities, as Yoga, Grégorian music, vegetable and fruits gardens, gold coating,… try to offer appropriate place to facilitate the exchanges and to feel relaxed. The well preserved area surrounding the abbey with gardens, orchards, and plantation contributes a lot to this peaceful atmosphere
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💼 What the programme involves
The Volunteers crew will work outside, especially to restore the surrounding wall of the Abbey: cleaning the wall, weeding, and pruning, painting benches... Depending on the season of harvest, you’ll give a hand to collect fruits of the orchard.
BEWARE: This workcamp is only based on manual and outdoor tasks and the work might be sometimes hard.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay in a building with bedrooms for two. Shower and toilets will be available on the same floor. On the ground floor, you’ll have your private living room that you can use for the evening and free time. The food will be provided by the community. During summer time, they collect fruits to produce their own fruit juice and marmalade.
Thanks to inform us in advance if you have a special diet.
📍 About the location
Maredret (25km of bigger cities as Dinant and Namur) is a traditional village, most of the houses are built in stones of the country, extracted during decades of the local quarries
Maredret is a small jewel set in the Molignée’s Valley. This region is considered for the beauty of its landscapes and its natural resources. It’s very close of the touristic place of Maredsous..
ℹ️ Additional information
There will be limited Internet access during the camp, available just from time to time.
Please take working clothes with you and shoes – boots are just perfect. Check if you have something suitable for rainy weather. Our partner ask you to bring working gloves..
Participation to monastic life (daily mess….) is never compulsory. Obviously, volunteers will be individually free to join some public celebrations in case of wish or personal interest.
While promoting this workcamp in a catholic monastery, CBB insists on its pluralist values. This project offers the volunteers the opportunity to work on a site with high patrimonial and cultural richness. We also see it as a nice opportunity to learn and develop awareness to interfaith dialogue and understanding.
It is an alcohol free camp
PRE-CAMP SESSION INCLUDED IN THE PROJECT DURATION
Location : Marche-en-Famenne
Dates: from Friday 05th to Saturday 06th of August
Purpose: the pre-camp gathers the volunteers from different projects. The participation in the pre-camp is compulsory and free of charge. It is a unique opportunity for the volunteers to meet and to attend different workshops on group dynamic, intercultural education and volunteering awareness. The pre-camp lasts from Friday evening to Saturday afternoon. On Saturday, the volunteers will travel together to their camp location (the cost of this train ticket is covered by CBB).
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05/08/2016 → 20/08/2016
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ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
0.00
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Maredret, 5537 Anhee, Belgium
Belgium
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🗣️ Languages spoken
English
Dutch
French