📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Oasis is an eco-citizen center for training, learning and research in ecology. It is a place created in 2013 for encounters, exchanges, expositions and conferences. Starting from February 2020, the center has moved to a different place located in Quaregnon. Consequently, much development is expected during 2020. The intention of the center is to show ecological alternatives applicable in all areas of daily life, to promote the re-appropriation of expertise to be able to follow a simple lifestyle, healthy, not dangerous for the health or the environment. In summary, the eco-center is intended to be an educational demonstration of ecological techniques related to habitat, energy, water and food.
💼 What the programme involves
One of the subjects addressed by the center is eco-renovation, which is the aim of this project. The participants will be part of the ecological renovation of the place as much as possible; in order to show that renovating a building in an ecological way without spending huge amounts of money on technology is possible. Everything needs to be done yet as Oasis has just moved to a different place. Volunteers will mostly do activities concerning management, renovation and cleaning of the place. There will be also different tasks of permaculture in the garden, exterior set-ups and installing of the space where there will be the oven.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will sleep in tents in the garden of the EcoCenter. They will have to bring their own camping material (tent, mattrass, sleeping bag and pillow)
📍 About the location
Quaregnon, nearby Mons ; 10 minutes by bike from the center of Mons. The train coming from Brussels stops at Quaregnon (two stops after Mons). Mons was the European Capital of Culture in 2015. For information about the city: http://www.visitmons.be/
ℹ️ Additional information
Covid-related safety measures :- Face masks to be used only outside of the group- Ventilated living and sleeping areas- Contact surfaces will be cleaned regularly- Material will remain in the group bubble as much as possible- Remember to cough in the elbow, wash hands regularly, use single-use tissues- Participants will be asked to sign a certificate indicating that they have not suffered any symptoms that may be related to COVID during the two weeks preceding the volunteer project (sore throat, cough, headache, fever, cough).