📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Its castle and its history are characteristic for the city of Domfront-en-Poiraie. Around the intricated alleys of the upper city, the medieval past of the city is omnipresent: courtyards, half-timbered houses, towers, walls; all within easy reach.
You will also have an opportunity to discover Norman culture: culinary specialties, hiking, discovery of the forests and Norman bocage as well as a warm welcome from the inhabitants. From Domfront, the region of Orne is open to you!
💼 What the programme involves
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Come and discover the medieval city of Domfront-en-Poiraie, located in the heart of a region with plenty of remarkable heritage, in the department of Orne. It’s an ideal workcamp for history lovers!
For this second year of partnership, you will participate in the interior renovation of a school for children living in the commune of Domfront. You will be supervised by the camp leaders and two municipal employees, already present last year. As last year, this workcamp will be very emotional with the meeting between the volunteers and the inhabitants and employees of Domfront who are waiting impatiently for the arrival of the volunteers again this year.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Let’s go on an adventure! You are going to sleep in tents, by 2 or 3 (bring your mattress and your sleeping bag), in the municipal campsite with toilets and bathroom in a building. The cooking and living spaces will be in a large tent. The group will be sharing the cleaning chores and preparing meals together. The budget will be allocated to the camp leader and you will participate in the preparation of dishes with good products from the market and local producers.
📍 About the location
Domfront-en-Poiraie is located in the south of Normandy and in the east of Orne department.
Meetings with the inhabitants will be organised, in particular through the organisation of an international meal and various other activities.
About Domfront : http://www.ville-domfront.fr/ ; http://www.petitescitesdecaractere.com/fr/nos-petites-cites-de-caractere/domfront
ℹ️ Additional information
Please bring gardening gloves, good shoes and working clothes. As nights can be quite cold, remember also to bring warm clothes. Don’t forget to bring a sleeping mat and a warm sleeping bag (and a tent if you have one!).
Don’t hesitate to bring specialties from your home country such as photos, games, music instruments, etc.
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 will then be reimbursed once back in their home country.
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