📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
We are searching for 2 volunteers for spring, from March to May 2023, to actively support our organization! Some of the main activities: growing mushrooms project, animal and garden care, animations and workshops for youngsters (month of ecology!), help in maintainance of the camping and help in the moving to the new land, community tasks (cooking, cleaning...). Overall, the project aims to promote sustainable development and resilience, and the new values that we can adopt to respect the environment and live together in harmony. With this project, we want to share with youngsters concrete solutions to think over and change their way of life, and understand the utility of adaptability, creativity and resilience to respond to the current climate challenge. It may be a challenging experience, but the more we let go our old patterns, the more we are open to learn and live! This mission is for active persons, that are ready to get the hands dirty!! :)
🏠 Accommodation on site
IDC is located in a small town,18km from Carcassonne where the nearest airport and train station are (the volunteers will be picked from there and will be taken to the camping). This region is rural, living mainly from wine farming and tourism. The cathar Castles of Lastours are just in front us!. Accomodation: volunteers will stay in mobile homes, in shared-rooms, usually with another volunteer of the same sex. Food will be bought twice per month, following the org's guidelines, and volunteers will take turns to cook healthy and low-impact food! We store properly the food and we avoid waste!
🎒 Leisure activities
The volunteers will be supported by our staff, who will guide them in order to achieve a succesfull accomplishment of the tasks. Depending on their profile, tasks and responsabilities, they will receive instructions, for example: on the garden, cooking team, compost and waste management, mushroom growing, organization of animations, animal care... Volunteers will work in autonomy during the week, after having a planning meeting on tuesdays, in which all tasks and questions should be answered. Whenever the volunteer needs help to accomplish a task, he/she should communicate it.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: We will host 2 volunteers (from a different nationalities) who will join the team of long terms. A certain level of environmental awareness will be asked, in order to go deeper into the topic with the youngsters. Some of the values we are looking for: ACTIVE and PROACTIVE :D, open-mindness, creativity, responsability, ADAPTABILITY AND FLEXIBILITY, environmental awareness, low-impact lifestyle, teamwork, will of new experiences, personal development. For mushrooms tasks: ready for routine, observation and curiosity. For animations: basic french, research spirit, public speaking skills.
Deadline: Application deadline: 26/02/2023
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.