📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The "Détours" association helps asylum seekers rebuild a stable and sustainable socio-professional situation. To address this issue, the association performs several activities, including the management of an Asylum Seekers’ Reception Center (CADA in French) located in Cunlhat. The Center welcomes asylum seekers for the whole period of processing of their asylum application. This includes their accommodation, an administrative follow-up (help with the asylum application procedures), a social follow-up (access to healthcare, kids’ schooling, etc) and a financial aid for food. The Center wishes this year to welcome young volunteers to promote encounters with refugees and help improving their living place.
💼 What the programme involves
The Détours association wishes to renovate the buildings of the Reception Center. You will also participate in the rehabilitation of the minigolf. You will work in small groups alongside the refugees. This joint work will be a real opportunity for exchanges and social cohesion. You will also work on the theme of sustainable development and apply the values of respect for the environment during the workcamp.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated in tents or in chalets, on the municipal campground. Meals will be organized by volunteers. You will go to the work site by walk (5 to 10 minutes walking).
📍 About the location
The Reception Center is located in Cunlhat, a village of 1265 inhabitants, 60 km from Clermont-Ferrand. Cunlhat is in the heart of the Livradois-Forez Regional Natural Park. You will be able to participate in the activities offered by the Center together with the refugees: cultural activities, sports activities, workshops. To visit: Ambert, a town known for its paper tradition (paper mill) still visible at the Richard de Bas mill and its Auvergne renowned cheese: the Fourme d’Ambert.