CHANONAT - RENOVATE TRADITIONAL WALLS AND PATHS
France
Construction
Environment
Renovation
Construction
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About the project
CHANONAT - RENOVATE TRADITIONAL WALLS AND PATHS
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
On the banks of the Auzon, Chanonat is located midway between the rural world and the urban area of Clermont. The municipality has a remarkably rich natural and built heritage, and wants for the first time to organize an international workcamp. Indeed, many paths and walls in Chanonat need to be restored, buildings and vaults must be renovated, a small source with a strangely scarlet colour disappears beneath the undergrowth. The people are eager to welcome you all to give a new life to this heritage For more information on the municipality: www.chanonat.fr/
💼 What the programme involves
The priority is to cut undergrowth back in the trails, to clean the stone walls that run along the paths, to put the stones into place, to widen the passage and to make small steps as needed. You will have too to arrange the surroundings of the Red Source, and to improve the access in order to highlight it. Finally, depending on your efficiency to carry out those first projects, there will be stone walls to rebuild too with lime binder, the surroundings of a little building must be cleaned, and vaults loosing stones have to be renovated. So you will not miss work You will participate to the work with other international volunteers and a technical supervisor will teach you specific techniques. The work takes place the morning for 5 hours maximum. Afternoon and weekends are dedicated to activities.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated in the House of Associations, organized in a dormitory. Mattresses will be available, remember to bring your sleeping bags. You ll have on-site access to all the facilities (toilets, electricity,...), the showers will be taken in two other buildings. In the House of Associations, you can also cook and eat together in an area with gas cooker, fridge, tables and chairs. You will cook in turn, by two, and a budget will be allocated for food shopping you can do in Chanonat (bakery, honey and fruits producers) and the neighboring town (farm products, groceries, butcher...). Jeunesse et Reconstruction can t take charge of you if you arrive before the beginning of the workcamp.
📍 About the location
Many local associations create a real dynamic in Chanonat, facilitating access to the rich historical, cultural and natural heritage of the municipality. Thus, footpaths crisscross the area, leading to the Chapel of the Tree and its mysterious legend of the statue, or the Castle of the Batisse, which is a Historical Monument, and whose French gardens, ponds, rock caves and waterfalls are famous. You too go to meet the inhabitants to experience the local life, customs, treasures to discover in the region : you will quickly appreciate the charm of ChanonatFor more information: http://www.tourisme-lescheires.com/
⚠️ Requirements
1/ No special knowledge or competence is required for this camp, except being motivated and loving work in group You will share friendly moments with local people : be open-minded and curious.2/ Bring: sleeping bag, warm clothes and rain-coat, bathing suit (for male: short pants prohibited in the public swimming pools, please bring a bathing suit). 3/Bring for work: worn out clothes, safety shoes/boots compulsory. 4/ Bring some material from your culture (documents, pictures, postcards, little gift, musical instruments, games,...) to share with other volunteers and local population and make exchanges easier.5/ 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 on the camp, the volunteers will have to pay for it, and then get reimbursed once back in the home country. 6/ Transportation back to the train station at the end of the workcamp will be organized during your stay with the campleader.7/ More info about trains : http://www.voyages-sncf.com/ 8/ If you have a driving license, please bring it along in case of necessity
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JR16/111
17/07/2016 → 06/08/2016
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ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–30 years old
Solidarity donation
0.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
63450 Chanonat, France
France
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🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🗣️ Languages spoken
English
French