📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
You want to participate in a collaborative and social project along with youngsters from urban French areas? This workcamp is made for you!
You will have the opportunity to commit with the inhabitants of Les Mureaux by taking part in a social project, in the heart of the neighbourhood « Les Musiciens ». You will contribute to the embellishment of the forecourt of the social center Georges Brassens, along with local youngsters. You will build wooden urban furniture, plant flowers and trees and paint games for kids on the floor in order to create a convivial space where people can relax and meet.
You will also participate in the summer animations organized in the neighbourhood and the whole city as well as meetings with the local population, in particular the youngsters.
Come and enjoy some beautiful moments while discovering the cosmopolitan city of Les Mureaux.
💼 What the programme involves
You will take part in the embellishment of the forecourt of the social center Georges Brassens in order to create a place to play and relax for the kids and the inhabitants. You will participate in building and assembling urban furniture, drawing painted games on the floors and planting trees and flowers.
Two camp leaders will accompany you during working hours and your whole stay at Les Mureaux. You will work with youngsters from Les Mureaux and share your cultures with them.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated in dormitories specially installed in the youth center for the group. You will share the different collective tasks and prepare the meals together.
📍 About the location
Les Mureaux is a town of 32 000 inhabitants, on the banks of the Seine and located in the department of Les Yvelines in Île-de-France, 39km West of Paris.
The neighbourhood “Les Musiciens” is located near the Sautour's Park and Bécheville's woods, close to the river Seine. It will allow you to organize some excursions and hikes.
A workcamp between urbanity and nature, only 35 min ago from Paris (you will be able to visit Paris before or after the workcamp or with the other volunteers during the week-end).
During the summer, lots of events and animations are organized in the city and of course, you will participate to some of them.
ℹ️ Additional information
Don’t forget to bring gloves, clothes which could be stained by the paint and work shoes. Nights can be chilly, bring a hot sleeping bag.
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.