📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Concordia is a French non-governmental and non-profit making organization, founded in 1950 with the aim to promote international exchanges of young volunteers. Concordia's objectives are :
- To contribute to the social life of communities through bringing together volunteers from different countries/regions and backgrounds ;
- To facilitate European and international mobility and exchange of ideas, through international exchanges in order to develop knowledge, mutual understanding and peace.
- To promote an educative project, encouraging an active citizenship of people for a democratic, united and participatory society.
Concordia is a member of the Alliance of European voluntary service organizations, of the Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service (CCIVS –UNESCO), of the National Committee of Youth and Popular Education, and of Cotravaux (Coordination of French Voluntary Work organisations). Concordia has the approval of the French Ministry of Youth and Sports.
Concordia has its headquarters in Paris and eleven regional delegations, including the Auvergne delegation, located in Clermont-Ferrand, coordinating projects in all Auvergne territory, including :
- Organizing international volunteers workcamps ;
- Sending, hosting and coordinating European Solidarity Corps projects ;
- Working within the framework of the French Civic Service program ;
- Organizing Youth Exchanges and Mobility of Youth Workers projects.
💼 What the programme involves
You will be welcomed in a medical-educational institute, the IME le Pailleret, by a group of young people aged 16 to 20 and their educators. These young people would like you to help them develop their garden: repairing the wooden containers in the vegetable garden, moving a wooden fence, building a small treehouse for children and creating a trail of scents. This pathway project will keep you busy the most. You will have to mark out the path on the ground, delimit it with stones and then create the earth spaces and the wooden boxes where fragrant flowers and aromatic herbs will be planted. This trail will awaken the sense of smell, which will be stimulated by the plants installed along the way. In addition to the pleasure it will provide, the trail will be a therapeutic aid for people with disabilities. We invite you contribute to this project with a strong social vocation!
You will spend about 30 hours per week on this workcamp.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accompanied by two camp leaders throughout your stay. You will be staying in the town of Mozac in one-person tents which will be set up on a green area next to a common space for group life. You will have access to toilets and showers on the campsite, as well as a kitchen.
The group will be sharing the cleaning chores and preparing meals together. The budget will be allocated to the group leader and you will participate in the preparation of meals, prioritizing products from the market and local producers.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: We are looking for motivated candidates interested in our project. Eager to share daily life with other participants. It is important that the volunteers can organise themselves well and take initiative.
Deadline: No application deadline
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.