📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
For the first time, the municipality of Briec wishes to host an international workcamp on its territory, in partnership with its technical services but also the youth service of the territory. This medium-sized town in Brittany now hosts more than 5,000 inhabitants with a great local dynamic.
💼 What the programme involves
Get involved to enhance a lake surrounded by trees in the south of Brittany, to transform a wild area.
For the first year, the municipality of Briec is organizing a volunteering workcamp on its territory. This small town wishes to bring a wild area back to life in order to make it a place for its inhabitants to walk and relax. Located not far from the town center, this area is overgrown with vegetation and has a small lake waiting for you to be enhanced.
You will clean the site to make it easier to access, pick the trash from the water to clean up the area and build wooden bridge to create, for the inhabitants, an easy path to walk.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will sleep in two-person tents (please bring your sleeping mat and a sleeping bag for cold weather) near the city hall (Arthemuse), in the town, which is located about 500 m from the worksite. The group will have a room dedicated for the meals, activities, and daily life. The group will be sharing the cleaning tasks and preparing meals together. The budget will be allocated to the camp leaders, you will participate in the grocery shopping and preparation of meals with products from the market and local producers (if possible).
📍 About the location
Briec is a small town located in the territory of Quimper Bretagne Occidentale, in the department of Finistère (29). It is located in the north, a few kilometers from Quimper.
It is a very beautiful town where there are various shops and activities.
This town is located close to the sea, so you will have the opportunity to get there from time to time, using public transport.
ℹ️ Additional information
You will have to bring warm clothes (trousers, sweater, socks, enclosed shoes, rain clothes) and light ones (skirt or shorts, t-shirt, open shoes) because weather can change very suddenly in Brittany. You can literally experience all four seasons in one day! Please also take with you working clothes, gloves and shoes in addition to your swimsuit. As nights are sometimes fresh and wet, bring a sleeping bag for cold weather and an insulated camping mat.
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 will then be reimbursed once back in their home country.