📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Betz is a village at the heart of the Valois region, a historical territory linked to King François 1er. With its 1000 inhabitants, it has a rich history thanks to the Monaco princes and the King of Morocco and the city council keeps strong bonds with Morocco thanks to a city pairing. The town has a high school and wishes to encourage youth participation as well as making the village beautiful.
💼 What the programme involves
At the center of the village, there is a crossroads with a cavalry standing on a grass bank. The city council wishes to create a rock and cobblestone layout to have permanent display cases (for flowers, etc.), and this will be your job: you will design the shapes, you will do the building work … plenty of different tasks.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will sleep in tents, with boys and girls separated, and you will use the community hall, situated along a green path, for daily life.
📍 About the location
Betz is at the boundaries of the Oise and Aisne departments, between Crépy en Valois and Meaux. To learn more: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betz_(Oise)
⚠️ Requirements
Remember to take clothes for the manual work and closed-toe shoes like baskets. For the accommodation under tents, bring your sleeping bag and floor mat. Please feel free to bring some food specialities, pictures, musical instrument: things you like and want to share with the group and the local community!
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 happen on the project, volunteers will have to pay for it, and then be reimbursed once back in their home country.
ℹ️ Additional information
Meeting point:
Crépy en Valois train station, 40 minutes from the Paris Nord train station.
Closest airport:
Paris
Fee:
165€