📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Saint-Jean-de-Nay is a picturesque rural village based in ) Haute-Loire i. The municipality will welcome this summer a workcamp for the revitalization of the village. The inhabitants and the municipality look forward to welcome you Saint-Jean-de-Nay has a rich built heritage. Thus the municipality wishes to value with you these heritage for the current and future generations.
💼 What the programme involves
You will participate in the renovation of the fountain which is a central element of the village. Here are the missions : cleaning, repairing of the stones, reinforcement of the structure and paving around the fountain. So this workcamp will consist mainly on masonry work : a great opportunity to learn ancestral know-how You will participate to the work with other international volunteers and a technical supervisor will teach you specific techniques concerning this restoration. The work takes place the morning for 5 hours maximum. Afternoon and weekends are dedicated to activities.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated under tents with all the facilities nearby. Town center is at 5 minutes. Saint-Jean-de-Nay is 942 metres of altitude, bring warm clothes You will cook in a cooking place with a refrigerator and a cook; dishes and kitchenware will be provided. There are no shop in the village, but a grocer comes every week. The closest shops are 2 km away : shoping will be a collective task managed by the campleader. Jeunesse et Reconstruction will not be responsible for you if you arrive before the beginning of the project.
📍 About the location
Saint-Jean-de-Nay is a rural village of 430 inhabitants, located in a preserved environment and it has a great architectural and historical build heritage. Archaeological remains from the Antiquity were found there. Saint-Jean-de-Nay is 6 km away from Loudes and 18 km away from Puy-en-Velay (main city of Haute-Loire). You will be proposed some activities during your stay: visit of a cheese manufacture, sport activities, hiking, excursions, swimming,- More information on the website: www.ot-lepuyenvelay.fr.
⚠️ Requirements
1/ No special knowledge or competence is required for this camp, except being motivated and loving work in group You will share friendly moments with local people : be open-minded and curious.2/ Bring: sleeping bag, warm clothes and rain-coat, bathing suit (for male: short pants prohibited in the public swimming pools, please bring a bathing suit). 3/Bring for work: worn out clothes, safety shoes/boots compulsory. 4/ Bring some material from your culture (documents, pictures, postcards, little gift, musical instruments, games,...) to share with other volunteers and local population and make exchanges easier.5/ 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 on the camp, the volunteers will have to pay for it, and then get reimbursed once back in the home country. 6/ At the end of the work camp, no transportation will be organized by our association. You will then have to arrange with the work camp leader your own means of transport to return to the train station.7/ More info about trains : http://www.voyages-sncf.com/ 8/ It is not possible for foreigners to change traveler-checks into cash money at the French bank agencies: please do it before the workcamp starts at money changers (in airports, main train stations, big cities).9/ A transportation will be organize during the workcamp for work and activities.10/ If you have a driving license, please bring it along in case of necessity
ℹ️ Additional information
Chantier ouvert aux Francais a partir de 17 ans