📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
"Is the protection of the environment and wildlife a subject close to your heart? Come and discover the association LOANA which fights for the conservation of the biodiversity in Lorraine!
For two weeks, the nature animators and naturalists invite you to participate in the maintenance of important natural sites, and the development of spaces for the protection of essential species in the region : birds, amphibians or plants in particular.
Come and share warm and festive moments with volunteers from all countries, and discover a beautiful green setting!"
💼 What the programme involves
"The LOANA association aims to study the fauna and flora of our region, enhance and manage our ecosystems while raising public awareness of the preservation of this environment. To do this, it combines with passion and skills the implementation of concrete actions on the ground.
On this project, you will be brought to intervene on the natural sites managed all year round by LOANA. It is therefore a sort of itinerant workcamp!
Thus, the program will be quite rich: maintenance of ponds for the preservation of species threatened by drought, manufacture and installation of nest boxes for birds, safeguarding of an educational path dedicated to orchids and many other surprises.
There are four working days per week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday). Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays are days dedicated to rest and leisure.
For each mission, you will be accompanied by an employee of the association LOANA."
🏠 Accommodation on site
"You will be accommodated in tents in Favières leisure center. Do not forget your sleeping bag and your mattress. Toilets and showers will be available on the leisure center.
In respect of the environment, all meals are cooked with seasonal, local and/ or organic products.
All aspects of the collective life (shopping, meal preparation, cleaning) will be managed by the volunteers themselves, on the basis of an operation that they will have decided in a common way (ex: use of planning, constitution of pairs,...). They will be helped in this task by a collective life animator. The goal: that each volunteer be actor ice of his stay in the respect of the others and the life in collectivity. During construction days, a picnic will be prepared the day before to take to the field. The last evening, a festive meal will be proposed: each volunteer will cook a specialty of his country that he will want to make discover to the group."
📍 About the location
"The Favières leisure center is a site laid out for tourism. It has many amenities to spend a good time ! In the heart of an old pottery village, we discover a natural site of 20 hectares full of surprises. At the bend of the trees, you will see a beautiful lake bordered by a large beach: outdoor games, football stadium, beach volleyball court, basketball court, petanque, various activities, space reserved for fishing... Everything will be there to make days of rest pleasant and sporty moments.
You will also be close to many cultural and historical sites to discover: Nancy and its Place Stanislas (one of the most beautiful in the world), the birthplace of Joan of Arc in Domrémy or the Gallo-Roman amphitheatre of Grand for example."
⚠️ Requirements
no access for wheelchairs
ℹ️ Additional information
Unfortunately the accommodation and works sites are not accessible to wheelchairs.
