BOOST COMMUNITY SPIRIT IN LONGUEVILLE

Name: BOOST COMMUNITY SPIRIT IN LONGUEVILLE
Start: 2023-07-10
End: 2023-07-23
Location: Longueville, France

France Manual work Social work Manual work Social work Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Concordia is delighted to offer this mission in this new partnership with the Longueville municipality and the Forum of the Provinois country association, who commonly deal with the ‘social life space\' where you will carry out the mission. We will also partner with the Longuevillois villagers, who will support us throughout our mission. Numerous communal exchanges will be organized with the community, for example around the national holiday (14th of July) but also all along your stay.

💼 What the programme involves

Join in on the life of the “social life space“ of the Longuevile village by setting up a community meeting place for all the inhabitants! In the small Longueville village in the French countryside, 8 km away from the touristic city of Provins and 1 hour away from Paris, help us create a meeting and community space outside the “social life space“ (a space with the goal of reinforcing social and neighborhood relationships). You will help us build outside furniture such as a brick barbecue, and an outside living room space in bricks and/or recycled wood. Your mission also includes organizing an open day at the “social life space“, where you will prepare an intercultural meal, and various activities of your choice in link with your home cultures.

🏠 Accommodation on site

You will be housed in individual tents, with indoor toilets in the social life center. Food will be cooked collectively every day inside the building by all 12 of you in turns. Note that there will probably be no washing machine, so remember to bring enough clothes for the 14 days, or some hand laundry detergent. There will also be WIFI provided.

📍 About the location

Longueville (1778 residents) is a small village of the Seine et Marne department, close to the town of Provins. The village has a beautiful living train museum, a hiking trail close to the social life center, a boules field and a tennis court, and all the activities the Provins town offers. Provins is a beautiful ancient medieval city, with numerous other activities and outings you can organize during your free time. There is also an outing in Paris planned. There will be a giant Paella organized on National Holiday which you are invited to !

⚠️ Requirements

This project is supported by the program European Solidarity Corps (ESC) for young people between 18 and 30 years. It is open to all volunteers that fit the ESC criteria. The participation to the ESC volunteering teams is subjects to several principles and conditions, presented on the ESC webpage: https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity/mission_en - volunteers do not have to pay any fee (not sending, nor participation fee) to attend the project and will receive a financial support for their travel, according to a maximum amount established in accordance with their travel distance and upon the presentation of original tickets; - volunteers need to enrol in the PASS, the ESC Portal; then Concordia France will organise their matching, on the online system, with the volunteering project; - volunteers will receive pocket money, calculated on basis of 6€/day, once they arrive on the project in France; - volunteers will have to complete a participation report, submitted online through the portal.

ℹ️ Additional information

Consider taking gloves, clothes and shoes adapted for work. The nights can be quite chilly, so take a warm duvet or sleeping bag. If you wish to share with the other volunteers, you are also welcome to bring recipes, musical instruments and any other traditional things from your country/region. 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 will then be reimbursed once back in their home country.

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