Co-leader on workcamp Sainte-Thérèse

Chantiers jeunesse and local hosts After a few days of training in Montréal, the co-leader will get the opportunity to lead two workcamps (CJ-1805 Sainte-Thérèse I, Québec & CJ-1806 Sainte-Thérèse II, Québec), with a leader from Québec. Over 20 years ago, the municipality and Chantiers jeunesse volunteers began transforming an abandoned site into a new green space located downtown, in the heart of Sainte-Thérèse, some 30 km north of Montréal. The site, known as the “Pit à Charron” (the Charron’s pit) is a former quarry and was for many years a garbage dump! The groups toiled away to clean the site and begin a landscaping job. We are, as a result, a long way from the first two phases when 800 tires were found and the first paths and trails were built! This site is now a nature park well known by the whole community. Participants have helped with the installation of windmills used to filter the water of the ponds. One of these ponds has, by the way, been named after Chantiers jeunesse to honour the groups! Welcome to the “Jardin des Sources” (Springs Garden)!