📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
A fulfilling experience that embraces differences and self-discovery, as well as teaching teens manual and useful skills. As part of the creation of a center for international volunteers on the premises of the association Citrus, come discover, learn, and share building and gardening techniques in the spirit of working together.
Since 2012, the three main buildings of Citrus : the offices, the barn, and the old stone farmhouse, have been located at the old hamlet Mayounelle, surrounded by green fields and a permaculture garden, with a view of the village of Laguépie. While accompanied by dynamic facilitators, you will share working hours, but also many moments of intercultural exchange and meals with the team and other volunteers. This project will bring together 5 French participants, 5 German participants and 5 participants from a partner country, as part of a Franco-German exchange sponsored by the OFAJ (Franco-German Youth Office).
With this project, you will be actively working for the Sustainable Development Goal n°12 from the United Nations: Responsible production and consumption.
💼 What the programme involves
Your work will consist of constructing a stone support wall around the association's main building. To do this, you'll select stones according to what would work for your desired results, and then you'll begin building. On the side of the pond, you'll renovate the planted pool terrace, planting appropriate vegetation that will grow in harmony with the existing minerals. There will also need to be work done to raise a dry stone wall around the terrace. All these tasks will be broken up by work that also has to be done maintaining the summer vegetables and the chickens. You will be accompanied by technical leaders, you will work in a team five mornings per week. Schedules will be adapted according to the weather conditions.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In big tents on Citrus’ premises, with access to the bathroom and an equipped kitchen. Food will be provided, and meals will be prepared by the volunteers. Team facilitators will be there to help you with the organization of daily life. Decisions about what to eat will be made taking into account participants' preferences and the availability of local and seasonal products.
📍 About the location
Location: Village of Laguépie, 100 km from North-East of Toulouse, between Albi and Villefranche-de-Rouergue.
Leisure activities: Outside of time spent at the workcamp, you can enjoy swimming, stroll around, meet other young people from the workcamp and Laguépie, organize pizza evenings using the bread oven, have game nights, visit exceptional medieval villages such as Najac, Cordes-sur-Ciel, Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, etc. You will participate in workshops on food that are directly related to the maintenance of the garden, what grows there, and how it's transformed into high quality, local and seasonal food.
ℹ️ Additional information
This project is reserved to German and Italian volunteers. It is financed by the Franco-German Youth Office (OFAJ in French). You will get travel reimbursement.