📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
“Oasis” is a young environmental association whose aim is to develop an eco-citizen educational center for trainings, learning and research in applied ecology. It aims to be a place of encounter, exchange, exhibitions and lectures. The purpose of the center is to show that ecological alternatives do exist in every area of our daily lives and to promote knowledge and skills to have a simple and healthy way of life, neither harmful for us nor for the environment. The main topics addressed are nutrition, permaculture, food, organic gardening, culture of organic local and old fruit-trees, urban agriculture, recycling, ecological renovation of the building, water management, energy, water management, participatory workshops and culture…
To achieve this, they organize different workshops.
💼 What the programme involves
One of the themes will be eco-renovation. Participants will be involved in the ecological renovation of the building, focusing on recycling as much as possible, to show that renovating a building is possible without spending huge amounts of money in technology.
The oasis has just moved to a new location, everything has to be done! Volunteers will mainly do landscaping, clearing, renovating and cleaning up the site. There will also be various tasks in permaculture in the garden, outdoor arrangements and arrangements of the room where the future bread oven will be located.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Basic accommodation in tents in the garden of the center (take your own mattress, pillow and sleeping bag).
📍 About the location
Quaregnon is in the surroundings of Mons, that is a city 70 km away from Brussels, in the south of Belgium.
⚠️ Requirements
For volunteers who like manual work.
ℹ️ Additional information
The food will be mainly vegetarian: local and seasonal food (veggies from the garden...), self-made bread...
More info about Oasis Eco-Center: http://www.ecocentre-oasis.be/actualites/
Not accessible to wheelchairs.