📝 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” organize different actions to restore and promote the castle, using it for second hand stores, theatre performances, exhibitions and youth workcamps. For the 7th 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! Half of the group will be youngsters from Ham and the neighborhood and the other half will be international volunteers. French will be the main language of the project!
💼 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 in tents, with boys and girls separated, and use of a house for the daily life (kitchen, showers…). Bring your sleeping bags.
📍 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
Remember to take clothes for the manual work and closed-toe shoes like baskets. For the accommodation under tents, bring your sleeping bag and floor mat. Please feel free to bring some food specialities, 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
Fee:
165€