📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Aisnagué is a non-profit organization located in a very small village called Lafosse and situated at the heart of the Ardennes region.
With an old traditional water mill, the purpose of the partner association is to produce some oil and flour. This year Aisnagué will collaborate with several associations of the region to welcome the volunteers. These organisations are all focusing on local production and local distribution channel. Among the different organisations, there will be other mills, a brewery, a cheese maker…
💼 What the programme involves
A lot of outdoor tasks with those partners: re-point channel walls, cut and prune branches, cleaning and repair the old mechanisms of milling, maintenance of the river banks, pick the vegetables…
A short study part will be organized by the different organisations in order to introduce properly the local distribution channel and their values to the volunteers.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Be aware that the living conditions are very basic; your team will have two bedrooms on the 1st floor of the mill. The mill is quite old but the bedrooms are salubrious. The hosting organization will provide mats. You’ll have dry toilet and one shower for the group.
The volunteers will organize a cooking team each day. You’ll have the possibility to have organic vegetables from a local producer and you’ll cook your bread by yourself with the baker’s oven of the village, the nearest shop is about 10km.
📍 About the location
Lafosse is a very beautiful village but very small and isolated. It could be impossible to move in another city during the week. If you like the birdsongs and noise of the stream, it will be the perfect place for you. The nearest train station is situated at about 20km from there. During the week-end, you will have the opportunity to move from the wild to the civilization ;) by sightseeing for example in Liège, Brussels or Namur…