📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
La Motte d’Aigues is a medieval village with a turbulent history. For this first year of partnership, you will participate to the village’s goals fulfillment, starting with the creation of a pedestrian path dedicated to the promotion of local heritage and to the reduction of cars utilization in the center of La Motte d’Aigues.
💼 What the programme involves
La Motte d\'Aigues, small village in the south of Vaucluse, needs you. Come and join us to build wooden stairs of more than 20 meters in length, in the Luberon region.
The municipality wishes to stimulate the pedestrian traffic between the village\'s different levels, connecting its bottom part (school, town hall, carpark) with its upper part (touristic heritage, residential area).
Participate in the village reorganization by building big wooden stairs with your hands. Within 3 weeks, you will turn a neglected lane between two houses into wooden stairs dedicated to become a common access for the village. On the program: ground clearance, manual levelling, wood cutting and stairs assembly. Depending on the project progress, you might also help the village with the protection of its cemetery dry-stone walls, especially by replacing their rooftops.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will sleep in tents in the village center and have access to a multipurpose room for everyday life, sanitary facilities and meals. Please bring your camping mat and sleeping bag.
The group will share the cleaning tasks and prepare meals together. The budget will be allocated to the group leaders, you will participate in the preparation of meals with good products from the market and local producers.
📍 About the location
La Motte d’Aigues is a small village with about 1400 inhabitants. Located in the Vaucluse department, the municipality is surrounded by other remarkable small villages (la Tour d’Aigues, Cucuron, Pertuis…).
With many hiking possibilities (particularly the Mirail’s source), the Bonde’s pond in the village as well as many sport equipment (tennis, skate-park, basket-ball and football field), you will enjoy outdoor activities during the project. The participation to La Motte’s festivities is also planned.
ℹ️ Additional information
Remember to bring clothes and shoes for work and hiking. Nights can be cold, so bring a sleeping bag for cold weather. To avoid mosquito bites, remember to bring mosquito repellent and long-sleeves and covering clothes for the evenings. As we are in an area where it can be very warm during the day, bring a hat or cap, sunglasses, sunscreen, a small backpack and water bottles.
As the village is far from the meeting place and has no public transport, it is imperative to be on time at the meeting point!
For the public events, you can bring a few traditional things from home that are easy to carry with you.
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.