📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Come and help our international host center bask in the sun! For several years, the association has wanted to make its international hosting center a real resource by testing the right practices to meet a great challenge of the 21st century: cllimate change. The aim: to mobilize everyone to "do one's part". What's planned? Designing and building outdoor showers and a water heater, powered by a source of energy as sustainable as it is pleasant: solar rays! You will be involved in a major project: limiting the environmental impact of our association by developing more ecofriendly means of energy consumption. All this will be accomplished, through a 3 week project that mobilizes young adults from all over the world! In a nutshell, an intercultural, technical and environmental challenge! It's heating up at Le Créneau!
With this project, you will be actively working for the Sustainable Development Goal n°15 from the United Nations: Life on land
💼 What the programme involves
This project will consist of designing and building a block of outdoor solar showers, then creating a solar water heater. To build the outdoor showers, you'll need to: do plumbing work, remove and fix the facing stones, create the formwork to then pour and lay a concrete slab, set up wooden sheds, construct an access aisle, then design and fix the hooks and towel rails. To create the solar water heater, you will: prepare the ground by leveling it and laying a concrete slab, prepare, paint and install the tank , cut and set the structure, cut and install the insulation, and finally, put in water.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will sleep in tents with access to outdoor showers as well as dry toilets. Food is provided, and meals will be prepared by the volunteers themselves in turns. Meals will be had under a big tent outside, or, in case of bad weather, inside in the dining room of the castle. We provide a fully equipped kitchen and activity rooms.
📍 About the location
Location: A former bourgeois home, the Castle Les Prureaux is in the middle of an agricultural area. Since 1993, our association has worked to maintain and enhance the historic buildings on the site. This "permanent" project, led by volunteers and hosting young peopleall year round, remains a rich educational opportunity that supports exchange, doing, and collaboration.
Leisure activities: Afternoons and weekends are collectively planned with the whole group. If you like spending time in the city, Moulins and Vichy are located about 40 kms away. If you’re more of the countryside type, don't hesitate to discover the region on foot or by bike, explore the banks of the canals, swim, or take advantage of local festivities and cultural events.
ℹ️ Additional information
This project is financed by the Franco-German Youth Office (OFAJ in French) and is reserved for German and Italian volunteers. You will get travel reimbursement.