📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
La Ferme de Grace is a holiday camp which welcome children between 6 and 12 years old during their after-school time. Every holiday camps must have educational and pedagogical features, La Ferme de Grace chose to welcome children in its educational farm. In this way, children can learn about animals (how they live, what they eat…). Taking care of animals can also help kids to develop autonomy and expressivity.
Through this workcamp, the town council of Amiens would like to develop interculturality and diversity. During this project you will meet the local population, especially the youth of the district and the kids you will meet in the farm.
💼 What the programme involves
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The town of Amiens invites you to discover its pedagogical farm, where kids come to spend some good time in summer camp during their holidays.
Commit yourself and come live two weeks of volunteering in this farm!
You will enhance the outside of the holiday camp which is also an educational farm. You will build a fence for horses and revive the pond of the farm.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You’ll be sleeping in tents, girls and boys separated, at the municipal campsite of Amiens (Camping du Parc des cygnes), near the park of the Grand Marais. In the campsite you can find toilets and showers. The group of volunteers will prepare their own meals meals and share collective tasks.
📍 About the location
Amiens, which is European capital of youth 2020, is a city of 130 000 inhabitants located in the North of France. The city is 1 hour from the sea but also 1 hour by train from Paris. You will visit the French capital during the national day (14th July) and the “Baie de Somme” (French costs). Amiens is also an attractive place with lots of heritage sites: its cathedral is the hugest of France; the district of Saint-Leu is nicknamed “small Venice of North” because of its river; the Hortillonnages and its floating gardens; the house of Jules Verne, famous French writer… and so more to discover!
Moreover, the campsite you will live in is next to the river called “la Somme”, near Chemin du Halage, a bikeway of 120km from Peronne to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme. The campsite is located near a park (Parc du Grand Marais) which offers during the summer free sports activities (canoeing, climbing, archery …).
⚠️ Requirements
Pour les volontaires français sur ce chantier en France (to our national participants in France) :
Pour les français s'inscrivant sur notre site, les frais de participation additionnel (200 €) indiqués dans cette description sont directement intégrés aux frais d'inscription "ADOS en France" de 460 €. En effet, ceux-ci comprennent à la fois les frais d'inscription de 260 € et les frais de participation de 200 €.
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https://www.concordia.fr/chantiers-france-2020
ℹ️ Additional information
Please, bring working clothes and good shoes for the workcamp.
We will use bikes to go from the accommodation to the working place (2.5 km). We might organize, at the beginning of the workcamp, training about how to use a bicycle in an urban environment.
As the nights can be quite cold, remember also to bring warm clothes, a warm sleeping bag and a camping mat. Tents are provided. You can also bring some traditional food from your country, photos, games… in order to share it with the group or with the local population!