📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Etudes et Chantiers is a non-profit making organization which develops environmental and heritage conservation projects, through different actions and publics: inclusion work, training work, voluntary work and other actions of sustainable development in rural areas.
For this voluntary project, a group of 6 European volunteers and 2 French volunteers will be hosted. This team will take part in the conservation of built heritage.
The volunteers will have the chance to work on both counties 'e~Ille-et-Vilaine' and 'e~Finistère'. The volunteers will travel and spend time outside their lodging location for several week camps. That will be the opportunity to discover local culture and people.
💼 What the programme involves
The team of volunteers will take part to several kind of activities :
A/ Technical activities: Conservation work of built heritage on different supports and using different techniques: soil, lime, stone'e
The activities will be supervised by the technical leaders of the organization.
B/ Educational activities: Raising awareness on built heritage conservation and local heritage (with schools, local population, visitors 'e), link with the local actors. Enhancement of European culture and exchanges.
The team of volunteers will be supervised by a professional technical leader on all supports which involved specific skills. The volunteers will work from Monday to Friday, 35 hours a week. The volunteers will have days off between the activities.
A. Built heritage conservation works
1. Wash house of the former Presbytery of the village of Cintré , Ille-et-Vilaine.
Date : July 3 weeks
Accommodation : In the presbytery 2/3 persons shared bedroom
Activities :
o The wash house is very damaged. The idea is to rebuild it as it was, using the original materials (stone, soil)
o Preparing the clay and straw mortar
o Building the walls of the wash house with this preparation
2. Former weaver village of Keranflec'h, Saint-Thégonnec, Finistère.
Date : August 3 weeks
Accomodation : Campsite (tents) in the garden of a house. Kitchen and bathroom inside the house.
Activities :
o The former village is located on a walking trail going through the touristic « Linen Road ». Volunteers have been working on these houses for 3 summers. The aim is continue to secure the ruins to permit the local population and tourists to discover this common heritage. To do so, the volunteers will remove the dangerous stones and put a layer of lime on the top of the walls.
3. Castle moats, Châteaugiron, Ille-et-Vilaine
Date : Septembre 3 weeks
Accomodation : Municipal campsite of Châteaugiron
Activities :
o Each year, volunteers restore a part of the moats of this XII century castle. Masonry work using lime.
B. Educational acitvities
o Develop relationship with local population by working on various technical supports.
o Organization of multicultural events
o Enhancement of European voluntary experience with schools, local population, young workers etc'e
o As part of the cultural exchange, volunteers will take part to the cultural programs with local community.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accomodation of the volunteers when not on worksites : Former presbytery, village of Cintré Cintré (23km from Rennes, capital of the Region of Brittany)
Food : provided
EVS allowance : 115'/month
A car will be provided for work trip and also for leisure activities on weekends and holidays.
📍 About the location
Many places to see in Brittany : http://www.brittanytourism.com/
Various activities to do : hiking, surfing, sailing, snorkelling,learning traditional dances, and more !