📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Help saving a 2,000 years old heritage and discover the history of Camblanes, a village in the countryside around Bordeaux!
The city of Camblanes is a former Roman village. The municipality wants to highlight the remains of that past. Abandoned for over 20 years, digging around a Gallo-Roman villa requires the intervention of motivated volunteers to protect them from deterioration and to help maintaining the area. During your stay, you will participate in local celebrations and visit the surrounding area.
💼 What the programme involves
You will participate in the cleaning of the site and protection of the Gallo-Roman villa of Camblanes. This year's work will focus on clearing the area, cleaning walls and partially cover the buildings to protect what remains from corrosion. Then you will rebuild a small wall to mark out the limits and the organisation of the villa. You will also prepare the area in order to create a Gallo-Roman educational garden accessible to local youth.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will sleep under tents for 2, boys and girls separated. The tents will be provided. Please bring your mat and sleeping bag. A collective tent for cooking and other group activities will also be provided for the group. The group will share collective tasks, manage the budget along with the camp leaders, shop and prepare meals made of local and healthy product.
📍 About the location
Camblanes is a village populated by 3,000 inhabitants, about twenty kilometres from Bordeaux. Surrounded by vineyards, it offers many attractions such as hikes along the Garonne, visits of Bordeaux city or an excursion to the Atlantic Ocean shores.
ℹ️ Additional information
Bring a warm sleeping bag and mat, working clothes and shoes, warm and rain clothes and a flashlight. 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.