📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The workcamp will be held in a unique location in the Cévennes National Reserve (Lozère), in partnership with two local associations. One has rehabilitated a hotel from the Middle Ages, in a spirit of community, openness and benevolence towards everyone. The second is a citizen collective organized around the management of local natural resources in an approach of respect for the environment and sustainability. Your action will be in accordance with the objective 12 of sustainable development (UN) in favor of sustainable consumption and production.
💼 What the programme involves
You will be involved with the citizen collective in the management of local resources. More specifically, the site will be around the chestnut grove. This year, the work will specifically concern the educational trail that runs through this chestnut grove: construction of a playground for children, development of educational elements (carpentry), minor leveling and earthworks 20h/week.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The workcamp will take place in a particularly isolated area, where you will be accommodated camping in individual tents (remember to bring your sleeping bag) in the chestnut grove, solar showers and dry toilets will be installed near the camp. In addition, if the climatic conditions deteriorate too much to be able to camp, a shelter, a few hundred meters away, will be accessible. Meals will be provided and prepared in turn by participants.
📍 About the location
Near the rural area of Ventalon in the Cévennes. As the site is held in an isolated area, the majority of leisure activities will consist of discovering the surrounding nature, hiking in the Cévennes and swimming in the river. Transport will also be made available to organize discovery outings and leisure activities.