📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Every year, by hosting volunteers and international workcamps, the municipality of 3000 Montendre is also home to one of Solidarités Jeunesses' international centres, the Maison des Bateleurs. The commune of Montendre has been running an international work camp every year for over 10 years, focusing in particular on its castle. This year, however, the commune has decided to focus the workcamp on a more ecological aspect.
💼 What the programme involves
The aim of this project is to clean up and maintain a plot of woodland to ensure that the trees grow back as naturally as possible, favouring the regrowth of deciduous trees over conifers. Accompanied by a technical supervisor, you will work on the development of this forest plot, which burnt down a few years ago. Come with your work clothes or clothes that may be damaged or dirty. We will provide you with safety equipment. No qualifications are required for this work.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will sleep in dormitories in the large Bateleurs International Guest House, where you will share the daily life of the international volunteers, welcomed as ESC. Located just a few hundred metres from the lake, in the commune of Montendre, the house has all the facilities you need: showers, kitchen, garden, bamboo grove....
You will have a vehicle to take you to the workcamp and explore the region. Food will be provided for breakfast and meals (you will have a food budget that the leaders will manage and communicate with you throughout the workcamp). Meals will be prepared, in turns, by you and the international volunteers, respecting environmental values and local resources, as well as everyone's culture (hot and cold dishes as well as vegetarian and vegan dishes will be prepared).
📍 About the location
Montendre (17130), Charente-Maritime, 75 km from Bordeaux.
Leisure activities: At the crossroads of several charming little villages in the south of Saintonge, you can take full advantage of the local heritage. When you're not working on the site, you can take part in summer activities such as the music festival, night markets and visits to local producers and tastings of their products. Outings to the city, La Rochelle, Rochefort or Angoulême and a day at the ocean can also be organised. Cognac and St-Emilion, two of France's leading wine-growing towns, are also close by!