📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Laplume owns is a municipality with beautiful natural landscapes and built heritage. Proud of this heritage, the city tries its best to maintain its natural and rural territory, while developing touristic activities. This summer, the workcamp will allow to work on the Clunisian church of the village. The workcamp is also very close to the one in Moirax where you will meet others volunteers the 21st of July to work together on the bastion of Moirax.
💼 What the programme involves
This year we need you for a real historical monuments work! You will work on the Laplume’s church which is listed in the historical monument of France. You will deal with the renovation of the buttresses of the church. You will participate in the repairs of the joint with the traditional technique of hydrated lime. You will also work on the rubble removal of material stocked in a part of the church. You will work in link with the local population that looks forward to meet you.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will stay in a historical home in renovation, 800 meters of the work place and very close to the center of the village of Laplume. The group will share collective tasks, manage the budget along with the camp leaders, shop and prepare meals made of local healthy products as a team
📍 About the location
Close to the city of Agen, Laplume is located south-east of the Lot-et-Garonne department. You will have ludic and sports activities but also discover built and natural heritage around professional that awaits to share their culture and knowledge. Every Thursday night a local market with many concert takes place in the village.
ℹ️ Additional information
Bring a warm sleeping bag and mat, working clothes shoes, warm and rain clothes and a flashlight. 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.