📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
International workcamps of young volunteers, carried out previously in the village of Antichan de Frontignes having been a success, the mayor wants to host a new international workcamp to implement concrete actions to improve the living environment and to integrate volunteers to the local life and especially during the village festival (popular annual event...). The residents will give you a warm welcome and expect many exchanges with you.
💼 What the programme involves
You will participate in various tasks in the village: restoration of an old house (former relais des Frontignes, guest house) to turn it into a center of Gascon culture, restoration of paved streets (sorting of the stones), you will also do the cleaning of walking trails. You will also participate in the organization, the running and the closing of the local village feast which animates and mobilizes every year many of the inhabitants over this period.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will stay in tents near the village. Sanitation (toilets and showers) are available nearby. The association provides tents and sleeping pads. Bring your towel and sleeping bag. We cannot pick you if you arrive before the start of camp.
📍 About the location
580 m altitude, 87 residents, Antichan of Frontignes is a small rural village at the foot of the chain of Pyrenees near the Spanish border, surrounded by beautiful mountain scenery. Animation: the site is rather isolated but offers many opportunities for hiking, visiting the beautiful local built heritage, sports; possibility of swimming in the lake near the village ... and the village is very lively during the festival.