📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Gironde sur dropt is well located close to the river in Gironde department. The municipality calls on us for the second year to pursue the renovation of the wash house.
The Gironde-sur-Dropt communal wash house has a large basin with limestone tiles. It was built on the place La Fontaine. In the 19th century, washerwomen could wash on its four sides, two of which are protected by a roof, covered with tiles. Built at the level of an abundant source, below a path, the wash house is accessible by a staircase and a path on a gentle slope. The laundry and the pump were used by the inhabitants of the district until the end of the 1970’s. The roof of the laundry was restored in the 1980’s.
💼 What the programme involves
In the continuity of last year work you will participate in the cleaning of the washhouse and the general enhancement of the site. You will have to rebuild some portions of collapsed walls and remake the joins of the “calade” which was once use as a trough for the cattle. You may also have the opportunity to build a bridge across the stream.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated in the town’s stadium under tents for 2, with boys and girls separated. Tents will be provided. Please bring your mat and sleeping bag. Showers and toilets as well as a place for cooking and for collective life will be available in a building located nearby. The group will share collective tasks, manage the budget along with the camp leaders, shop and prepare meals made of local healthy products as a team.
📍 About the location
Gironde sur Dropt is a village of almost 1,200 inhabitants located on the Dropt River, close to the city of Reole rich in art and history. Surrounded by vineyards, it offers many attractions between walks on the Garonne, visits to Bordeaux or even out on the Atlantic Ocean.
⚠️ Requirements
Bring a warm sleeping bag and mat, working clothes and shoes, warm and rain clothes and a flashlight.
Foreigners belonging to the European Union must bring with them a personal EHIC (European Health Insurance Card), and everybody must, in any case, bring their insurance certificate. If health issues happen on the project, volunteers will have to pay for it, and then be reimbursed once back in their home country.
ℹ️ Additional information
Meeting point:
La Réole train station.
Closest airport:
Bordeaux airport.