📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
This is the 12th workcamp with the little town of Tracy le Mont. As each year, you will be eagerly awaited. The municipality is committed in the preservation of the town environment and history, and encourages the participation of the youngest members of the village.
💼 What the programme involves
The commune of Tracy le Mont was marked by the fights of the First World War. Today there are still several vestiges of this conflict that the commune wants to preserve in order to maintain the duty of memory.
You will participate in the renovation of a small First World War guardhouse, by doing masonry, repointing, cleaning and cutting branches. You will also contribute to the maintenance of the information signs and of the signs representing the soldiers on the memory trail in the forest (sanding, wood stain), so as to ensure the permanence of this trail.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will sleep in individual tents, next to the municipal hall in Tracy le Mont (Victor de l’Aigle). This hall will be at your disposal for the group daily life. You will find inside a kitchen, a large room to eat all together and separated sanitary facilities for women and men. The municipal hall is adjacent to the village library for those who love reading!
Showers are located at the soccer stadium, about 1km away from where you will sleep. Bicycles will be at your disposal to get there. You will share the various collective tasks and prepare meals together, with local products as much as possible. A market takes place twice a week in the town.
📍 About the location
Tracy le Mont is a village of 1,800 inhabitants, located in the heart of the Laigue forest. Numerous hiking trails start from the village and cross the forest. The region also has a very rich historical heritage that you may discover during your stay: numerous gothic cathedrals, the castle of Chantilly, the imperial palace of Compiègne, the castle of Pierrefonds, the Armistice quarry, ect. Moreover, other activities are planned, such as going to the swimming pool, doing a diving initiation... You will take part in the animation of the village for example during the festivities of July 14th for the fireworks and the torchlight procession.
ℹ️ Additional information
This workcamp is perfect for forest lovers: you will enjoy the natural environment during all your trips, on foot or by bike, to go from one place to another. Remember to bring clothes for work, enclosed shoes and walking shoes. For accommodation in tents, take your sleeping bag and a camping mat. You can also bring traditional food from your country/region, photos, games, musical instruments: whatever you like and want to share with the local population or with the group of volunteers!
More infos on: www.tracy-le-mont.org
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 them, and will then be reimbursed once back in their home country.