📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The diversity of the built heritage gives to the Saint-Floret town a special attraction. Located in the beginning of the Sancy Mountains, people love to come during summer for having good time. The town has other assets that attract tourists invariably both during summer and winter. The inhabitants and the local associations will receive volunteers for the second time with a great enthusiasm.
💼 What the programme involves
Work will focus on the enhancement of the former hamlet near the castle that is registered as an Historical Monument. You will participate in the construction of a stone path to create a way among the ruins. The work will be physical but interesting and rich of experience. You will participate to the work with other international volunteers and a technical supervisor will teach you specific techniques. The work takes place the morning for 5 hours maximum. Afternoon and weekends are dedicated to activities.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation in a big room inside a public building nearby downtown. Mattresses provided. Bring your sleeping bags and blankets and warm clothing for the night. Equipped kitchen where you prepare your meals all together. No shop in the village (the nearest is at 3 km). The organization Jeunesse et Reconstruction does not provide accommodation for the volunteers arrived before the start date of the project.
📍 About the location
Saint-Floret is a lively tourist town in summer. The village offer a preserved environment and beautiful landscapes. Activities will be organize during your stay in partnership with different associations : a visit by a guide of the local heritage, excursions, hiking ... More information about the town: http://www.saint-floret.fr/
⚠️ Requirements
1/ No special knowledge or competence is required for this camp, except being motivated and loving work in group You will share friendly moments with local people : be open-minded and curious.2/ Bring: sleeping bag, warm clothes and rain-coat, bathing suit (for male: short pants prohibited in the public swimming pools, please bring a bathing suit). 3/Bring for work: worn out clothes, safety shoes/boots compulsory. 4/ Bring some material from your culture (documents, pictures, postcards, little gift, musical instruments, games,...) to share with other volunteers and local population and make exchanges easier.5/ 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 on the camp, the volunteers will have to pay for it, and then get reimbursed once back in the home country. 6/ At the end of the work camp, no transportation will be organized by our association. You will then have to arrange with the work camp leader your own means of transport to return to the train station.7/ More info about transportation : http://www.voyages-sncf.com/ and http://www.blablacar.co.uk/8/ It is not possible for foreigners to change traveler-checks into cash money at the French bank agencies: please do it before the workcamp starts at money changers (in airports, main train stations, big cities).9/ No transportation during the workcamp for work and activities.10/ If you have a driving license, please bring it along in case of necessity
ℹ️ Additional information
Chantier ouvert aux Francais a partir de 17 ans