📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Castle of Ham, destroyed by the German army in 1917, has known a rich and reckless history: it was used as a jail in the 19th century for the famous prisoner Louis Napoléon Bonaparte! The association “the Castle of Ham's friends” organizes different actions to restore and promote the castle, using it for second hand stores, theatre performances, exhibitions and youth workcamps. For the 8th year in a row, the association wants to join Concordia and organize an international and intercultural workcamp with young people from Ham and from all over the world. Lots of activities are planned and Ham’s swimming pool will be open for you! One half of the group will be youngsters from Ham and the neighbourhood and the other one will be volunteers from all over the world. French will be the dominant language!
💼 What the programme involves
The work will be diversified: it will include arrangements, masonry…You’ll also continue the development of the « prisoners » garden, consolidate the former German kitchen ruins and repoint the walls…
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will sleep under tents and use a house for the daily life (kitchen, showers…). Bring your sleeping bags. The group will be sharing the cleaning chores and preparing meals together.
📍 About the location
Ham is located in the heart of the Region, 20 kilometers from St Quentin and Noyon.
For more information: http://chateau-de-ham.over-blog.com/
ℹ️ Additional information
Remember to take clothes for the manual work and closed shoes. For the accommodation under tents, bring your sleeping bag and floor mat. Please feel free to bring some food specialties, pictures, musical instrument: things you like and want to share with the group and the local community!
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.