📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
At the heart of an exceptional region with lush flora, let s come to a colorful town The municipality of Saint-Mamet-la-Salvetat wants to organize an international workcamp, in the framework of development projects and arrangement of its historical heritage. Saint-Mamet-la-Salvetat is 750 meters above sea level, facing the mountains of Cantal and Aubrac, near Aurillac City, where a big festival takes place on August. For more information on the town: http://www.stmamet-lasalvetat.com/
💼 What the programme involves
You will act a 1000 year old site that needs to be restored This site is located in a small village, La Salvetat, where stone and rocks are ) the Master i. Work to save this site will focus on the restoration of the dry stone walls around the Commandery (the name of this site where Knight established this site). You will learn how to build dry stone: the ancestral technique that stack stones without any binder for making a wall as solid as durable.You will participate to the work with other international volunteers and a technical supervisor will teach you specific techniques concerning this restoration. The work takes place the morning for 5 hours maximum. Afternoon and weekends are dedicated to activities.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated in a communal building with toilets and showers. Remember to bring your sleeping bags and warm clothes. You will also have available a room with fridge, stove, tables and chairs in order to eat together. You will cook in turn, by two. Transportation will be arranged for you to do your shopping in supermarkets or by local producers, with a budget that will be allotted. A small grocery store is located in the municipality. Jeunesse et Reconstruction can t take into charge the volunteers before the start date of the workcamp.
📍 About the location
Saint-Mamet-la-Salvetat se distingue par son patrimoine exceptionnel : le four a pain, la croix de cayre, le travail du marechal-ferrand, la fontaine a chaine a cremaillere, la fresque representant le village d hier a aujourd hui, le verger et ses jeunes greffes, le secadou (batisse o u sont sechees les chataignes), les murs de pierres seches, l atelier (l ancien centre d embouteillage de l eau gazeuse)- En effet, en 1821 a ete decouverte une source d eau gazeuse sur le territoire, dont le succes est devenu legendaire. Un site Natura 2000, de 200 hectares, se trouve a proximite, et travaille a la conservation des populations de chauve-souris qui hibernent dans des vestiges miniers. Les associations locales sont aussi tres dynamiques a Saint-Mamet et animent tout au cours de l annee la fete du potiron, la fete de l eau etc. Comme disent les habitants : ) Nous sommes attaches a notre environnement naturel, bati et culturel, que nous voulons preserver, mettre en valeur, developper, venez le partager et l aimer avec nous i. Dans la region, vous pourrez admirer les paysages en canoe, decouvrir les fermes locales, et randonner sur les multiples sentiers qui parcourent monts et rivieres Toutes les informations sur le tourisme local : http://www.cantal-destination.com/
⚠️ Requirements
1/ No special knowledge or competence is required for this camp, except being motivated and loving work in group You will share friendly moments with local people : be open-minded and curious.2/ Bring: sleeping bag, warm clothes and rain-coat, bathing suit (for male: short pants prohibited in the public swimming pools, please bring a bathing suit). 3/Bring for work: worn out clothes, safety shoes/boots compulsory. 4/ Bring some material from your culture (documents, pictures, postcards, little gift, musical instruments, games,...) to share with other volunteers and local population and make exchanges easier.5/ Foreigners belonging to the European Union must bring with them a personal EHIC (European Health Insurance Card), and everybody must, in any case, BRING THEIR INSURANCE CERTIFICATE. If health issues on the camp, the volunteers will have to pay for it, and then get reimbursed once back in the home country. 6/ Transportation back to the train station at the end of the workcamp will be organized during your stay with the campleader.7/ More info about trains : http://www.voyages-sncf.com/ 8/ If you have a driving license, please bring it along in case of necessity
ℹ️ Additional information
Chantier ouvert aux Francais a partir de 17 ans