Acacia - Épicerie Solidaire

Name: Acacia - Épicerie Solidaire
Start: 2019-02-01
End: 2020-03-31
Location: Elne, France

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France Manual work Social work Manual work Social work Permanent

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

As a member of the Unesco’s organizations and clubs, our partner’s objective is to offer an access to the solidarity grocery to a vast majority of beneficiaries. The solidarity grocery’s vocation is to be a space of social living, an integration and training platform, a cyber-center and a pole of international solidarity. Regarding the way the grocery works, our volunteers help us harvesting and shelving the products, they also assist us in the cash accounting, in the maintenance of the facilities and above all, in welcoming people. There is a wide range of social activities, such as cooking workshops, “citizens’ coffee workshops”, socio-aesthetic workshops, the management of the family budget and the use of the IT tool. New activities are being created each and every day. The grocery store is an animated and welcoming place as well, therefore we favour friendliness, listening and sharing. Furthermore, our partner organization is a place of information and orientation towards other partners.

💼 What the programme involves

Volunteers will be able to do several other tasks. A shift system will be set up for each volunteer. The volunteers will have to be interested in the whole variety of services designed by the organization. After a discussion with their supervisor, members of the team and the other volunteers, they will be invited to choose the service they prefer, taking into account the preferences of the other members of the team.

Our services are as follows: - An Animation Pole is dedicated to different workshops (arts and sports workshops), to the digital space and to the “citizens ‘coffee workshops”. - Regarding the grocery store in itself, volunteers will be invited to help collecting the products (reserved to the beneficiaries of our grocery store), shelving these products, in the cash accounting and in welcoming the beneficiaries. However, volunteers need to be supervised. Social links hold a very important position in the eyes of our organization. Furthermore, volunteers will also be able to get involved in the administrative tasks, in the accounting and in the management of our stocks. - Volunteers could also take an interest in the “communication pole” of our organization, in particular in aspects related to the promotion of our organization’s services. - A pole dedicated to news ideas/ social innovations could also be at the center of a project for one of the volunteers.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The house of volunteers, where participants stay, is located close to the solidarity grocery store (three minutes by foot). This house is also a place of training and welcoming. The house offers numerous rooms with a private bathroom. Other than that, the accommodation has two big living rooms, a training room, two big kitchens and two separated toilets on each stair landing. Each volunteer will be offered a room in a non-mixed dormitory with a private bathroom. Each room is equipped with a bathroom which has WC, a big Italian shower and a sink with a private access. The accommodation consists in two bunk beds per room (the room capacity is therefore of four people maximum per room). The rooms are big and comfortable enough and they all have wide windows. They can also be locked. Furthermore, volunteers will enjoy numerous private racks located in the rooms, the kitchens and the laundry rooms. Volunteers will have the possibility to relax in the living rooms, in the common areas or in the big kitchens. A laundry room with washing machines and an iron is also available for everyone. Furthermore, volunteers will have free access to the garden. Participants to the project are autonomous. Consequently, they have to tide up their rooms themselves. Furthermore, the common areas (kirchens, WCs and living rooms) have to remain clean in order to enjoy them in good conditions.

📍 About the location

Participants to the project are hosted in a solidarity organization. The main activity consists in making the solidarity grocery work. Apart from that, the organization remains a welcoming place dedicated to people going through a difficult period of their life, either socially or economically speaking. Being welcoming, attentive, respectful and comprehensive is of utter importance for us. We dedicate a lot of our time to people. The organization welcomes beneficiaries from different cultures, with different objectives. Their main request remains the access to the solidarity grocery store, but our beneficiaries can also follow a path of re-insertion into the labour market or into social life in general through a series of activities. Volunteers will be able to share these friendly moments of information with our beneficiaries and therefore, show them their support in this painful period of time. Communication is also a very important dimension in the project. We do wish that the volunteers feel listened to, useful and that they will feel free to share whatever they want with the members of the organization together with all the other people serving the organization. We want to put these social links forward through a series of common and recreational activities. These activities are organised regularly so that the volunteer can feel well during his/her whole project.

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📅 Available sessions

SVI-ACACIA

01/02/2019 → 31/03/2020

Closed

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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–35 years old

Solidarity donation

100.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

8 Bd des Évadés de France, 66200 Elne, France

France

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Standard Time

Local time: 21:32 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

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📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

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🗣️ Languages spoken

English French