📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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Please provide a brief introduction to your organization. What are its objectives, main activities and target groups? Please note that your answer will be published on the European Youth Portal. Please write your answer in English
The Hameau des Buis association aims to bring people together around the eco-environment to:
- Develop an ecological way of life: housing, consumption, energy transition, organic farming, etc,
- Act in favor of biodiversity and living beings,
- Research and implement an organization that respects human beings,
- Establish and maintain a caring and supportive environment for all people, from childhood to old age,
- To share and disseminate these practices to the widest possible audience.
- To participate in the management of the structure that owns the Hameau des Buis.
The actions of the association are developed in the following fields
o Setting up short circuits of ethical consumption open to its members (e.g.: farmers' market, grouped purchases, etc);
o Support for the establishment and maintenance of professional activities on the site of the Hameau des Buis supporting the purpose of the association;
o Sobriety of energy, mutualization of energy sources, development of alternative energies;
o Setting up participative decision-making processes, conflict resolution methods, spaces for expression and conviviality;
o Sharing these experiences with the general public by organizing guided tours, conferences, fairs, and any other means of communication;
o Transmission of these experiences through the organization of workshops, workcamps, training courses;
o Promotion of this way of life by welcoming and accompanying researchers, students, trainees, volunteers;
o Support and participation in the action of organizations sharing its values;
o Practice and promotion of mutual aid and intergenerational solidarity: support for autonomy, home maintenance; support for alternative and caring pedagogies;
o Administration and animation of the life of the ecovillage Hameau des Buis;
o Acquisition, development, transmission and dissemination of skills to implement these means.
💼 What the programme involves
The Hameau des Buis is an ecovillage member of GEN Europe. Twenty bioclimatic houses made of wood, clay and straw are home to forty people of all generations. We have a goat herd and a market garden, as well as a bakery where our bread and delicious croissants are cooked.
The volunteers will support the agricultural activity : accompany the goats on their daily outings, help in the garden. They will also have the opportunity to play with the children, participate in the cultural and festive activities of the ecovillage with all the inhabitants.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will live together in one of the bioclimatic houses, where they will have a bathroom and a kitchen. They will be able to buy their supplies in our association's shop and at our farmers' market. They will be provided with a bicycle for short trips, and can be accompanied by car to the nearby town if necessary.
🎒 Leisure activities
Volunteers will be able to discover food-producing agricultural activities through permaculture and goat breeding, but also soap making, cosmetics, food processing...many opportunities for informal learning through interactions with retired people willing to pass on their knowledge and experiences. They will also be able to practice relational management tools (e.g. restaurative circles).
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: We welcome young people who are enthusiastic, curious and eager to share their culture and ours.
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.