ESC: Renovating homes to empower people and strengthen their social life
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About the project
ESC: Renovating homes to empower people and strengthen their social life
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Our partner, a French non-profit established in 1957, is dedicated to advocating for adequate housing for all, particularly marginalized groups. They engage in construction and renovation projects, alongside social initiatives aimed at supporting the integration of disadvantaged individuals. Through a collaborative approach involving volunteers, young people in civic service, and construction professionals, our partner facilitates solidarity-driven work camps to address housing challenges. Additionally, they conduct advocacy efforts to raise awareness and influence policies regarding housing issues, emphasizing social cohesion and collective well-being.
💼 What the programme involves
Our partner organisation aims at improving social inclusion for people with low economic resources, with a specific focus on housing. They help people to improve their living conditions at home, and they offer general social support when it is needed. The volunteers help them implement their action about housing through :
- helping people to renovate their homes. Volunteers will go to the houses of the people our partner helps and they will work with the professional technical referents in order to perform some renovation tasks : painting, changing wallpapers, plumbery, electricity, etc.;
- implementing workshops designed to help people improve their living conditions. Some examples of the topics which are addressed: building furniture on your own, making your own natural cleaning products, saving energy and water in your house, etc.
Our partner's approach is based on non-formal education and the activities are designed in order to foster the participation of the people they help, and empower them.
🏠 Accommodation on site
🍲 Food
Every ESC volunteer receive a monthly allowance of 556 euros for food expenses and pocket money.
📍 About the location
Rennes, Paris, Marseille, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Tours, Orléans, Clermont-Ferrand (THE CITIES DEPENDS OF THE AVAILABLE PLACES AT THE TIME OF YOUR APPLICATION!)
🎒 Leisure activities
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: the project is open to anyone looking forward to learning about manual work and social support. We do not expect volunteers to have previous experience. What we do expect from our volunteers is:
- to have a good understanding of our approach;
- to be motivated to take part in manual work activities;
- to be able to interact with people from different backgrounds.
More information about our partner:
https://fr-fr.facebook.com/assnatcb/ https://www.compagnonsbatisseurs.eu/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq1R3l8_zsU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8jDe5sEq_U&t=50s
Deadline: Application deadline: 30/08/2024.
🤝 Meeting point
The meeting point will be indicated in the info sheet.
ℹ️ Additional information
The participating organisations have to be mindful of these needs as they are responsible for providing a respectful and trusting hosting environment. At the same time, the organisations participating in the initiative devote a great deal of time, energy and resources to set up a high-quality activity; they should therefore expect that European Solidarity Corps participants show a similar level of respect for the local communities and the people that are directly concerned by the activities (https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/mission_en).
What do we provide ?
- Training before and after the project;
- health insurance during your project;
- round-trip travel reimbursement;
- accommodation and food;
- pocket money;
- language course;
- return Week-end;
- Youth Pass and SVI international Volunteer passport.
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label.
Contact the ESC coordinator at +32 2 888 67 13 to get more informations.
Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.
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📅 Available sessions
FR38616
02/09/2024 → 29/08/2025
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–30 years old
Solidarity donation
0.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Paris, France
France
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)
Timezone
Central European Summer Time
Local time: 22:21 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
🗣️ Languages spoken