📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Latresne is a nice village close to Bordeaux along the Garonne River, offering nice green areas and several old buildings, testimonies of a rich heritage. Latresne municipality asked Concordia to help them preserve a part of their heritage. The bigger project is to bring locals and international volunteers together in several activities or events around a mobile bar/barbecue which was designed and built during a previous workcamp.
💼 What the programme involves
You will participate in the renovation of two facades which are contiguous to the “House of associations”, an old bourgeois building made of stones. In order to do that you will have to work on scaffolding. Your first job will be to remove the existent coating, then you will apply the new one made of lime tinted with natural pigments.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated in tents in the heart of the city with every commodities available. You will have access to a room for cooking and collective life. The park nearby will provide you open air living rooms to enjoy your free time out in the sun. The group will be sharing the cleaning chores and preparing meals together.
📍 About the location
Really close to Bordeaux, Latresne is a town along the Garonne River with several old building, quite lively, just next to the Entre-Deux-Mers. For more details please see: http://www.mairie-latresne.fr/tourisme/patrimoine.php
This area is well-known for its vineyards between Garonne and Dordogne. Not too far south are Marmande and Langon, to the West Bordeaux, Libourne in the North, and Bergerac in the East. You will be charmed by the ancient cities, the mills and castles around.
⚠️ Requirements
Please bring a sleeping bag, working clothes, sport shoes, warm and rain clothes, a flashlight, a swimsuit and sun cream.
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:
Bordeaux train station.
Closest airport:
Bordeaux.