📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Come and promote active and environmental tourism in a magnificent village on the banks of a river, typical of the South of France! This is where international and French volunteers have chosen to live together and participate in the realisation of a dream: building peace in the world. The challenge is to learn how to live and work together, amongst different people, cultures, and backgrounds. This group of volunteers will host you on their premises for three weeks. Together, you'll experience daily life as a community and participate in renovation work and other activities while experiencing the gentle lifestyle of a typical village in the heart of the French countryside.
💼 What the programme involves
This magnificent territory, in the midst of rivers and rolling hills, wishes to makes its landscape and culture known to the public through active and environmental tourism. Come help to develop this ecotourisme that conscious of its environment through the creation and renovation of hiking or VTT trails! Continue the work on this sports trail initatived by other volunteers in 2018, all while enjoying the first colors of autumn and the chesnut fair, an unmissible event of the region.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In a house equipped with large dorms that also serves as a welcoming center for international volunteers during winter. You'll have access to a communal kitchen where you'll take turns preparing meals in teams, as well as access to sanitary facilities (showers and bathrooms). You will be within a 3-minute walking distance of the village center.
📍 About the location
Location : Laguépie is 100 km Northeast of Toulouse, between Rodez and Mountauban and close to Albi. Laugépie is lucky enough to be crossed by two rivers. The homes of Laguépie sit right on the riverbanks and climb the hills in a picturesque setting overlooked by a castle.
Leisure activities : Outside of time spent at the worksite, you'll decide as a group the activites you want to participate in. You'll have the opportunity to attend local festivities (performances, concerts), explore the natural environnement and cultural heritage, go swimming or walking, have pizza dinners and game nights, and visit the exceptional medieval villages of Najac, Cordes-sur-ciel, and Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val.
ℹ️ Additional information
This project is financed by the Franco-German Youth Office (OFAJ in French) and is reserved for German and Russian volunteers. You will get travel reimbursement.