📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Castle of Ham, destroyed by the German army in 1917, has known a wealthy and reckless history: it was used as a jail in the XIX century for the famous prisoner Louis Napoléon Bonaparte! The non-profit-organization “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 9th year in a row, the non-profit organization 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! 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 is diversified: it will include arrangements, masonry…You’ll also continue the development of the « prisoners » garden, consolidate former German kitchen ruins, point joins…
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will sleep in tents and use of a house for the daily life (kitchen, showers…). Bring your sleeping bag. You will share the different collective tasks and prepare the meals together.
📍 About the location
Ham is located in the heart of the Region, 20 kilometers from St Quentin and Noyon.
Additional information: http://chateau-de-ham.over-blog.com/
⚠️ Requirements
French basics needed.
Remember to take clothes for the manual work and closes shoes. 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.
ℹ️ Additional information
Meeting point:
Ham train station.
Closest airport:
Paris