📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
After the success of the international workcamps carried out ten years ago, the municipality of Clerieux wishes to renew this experience and continue to improve its living environment. This year the workcamp will focus on the arrangement of the municipal park, meant to be a real living area.
💼 What the programme involves
As a city of 2000 inhabitants, the rural town of Clerieux has a significant young population. The municipality therefore wished to provide its inhabitants with a green zone combining a play area for children, a fitness trail and even a skate park. This summer s work will help to complete the setting up of this park. Here is the program: setting up of an insect hotel, eco bee boxes, a picnic table and flowering of the plot. You will also set a Japanese garden path to facilitate access for people with reduced mobility and families (strollers). Finally, you will carry out reinforcement work on the damaged parts of the skate-park.To carry out this work, you will be supervised by the technical service agents who will be happy to share their knowledge with you.You will be accommodated 10 minutes away by walk, so you will go to the site on foot and work 4 to 5 hours a day.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated in a reception house. You will have all the facilities you need for group living (WC, shower and kitchen). Located 800m from the city center, you will have access to local shops (bakery, butcher, convenience store).
📍 About the location
You will be able to walk in the charming alleys of the city and to meet the locals, who will be happy to make you discover their region and its terroir. You can also enjoy the town s facilities: petanque area, skate park, soccer pitch. Finally, local associations will organize activities related to the discovery of the region: hiking, visit of Erik Borja s Zen garden, surrounding villages, organization of picnics. You can also take part in the town s life (local market, flea markets ...)
⚠️ Requirements
This living environment development workcamp will allow you to acquire technical skills specific to furniture making in a green building process. The realization of the Japanese garden path will introduce you to landscaping techniques: organization of stones, drainage and installation, in an aesthetic perspective. Then, the reinforcement work carried out at the skate park will allow you to experiment with masonry. Working as a team, both with the supervising campleaders and with other volunteers, you will develop your autonomy, your adaptability and versatility, rigor and tenacity. Those are skills you will also strengthen through group life.
