📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The town of Longages together with the "Amis de Longages" association (heritage maintenance) decided to call on a volunteer project to rehabilitate its small local heritage. This town of about 3,000 inhabitants is located near Toulouse and wants to keep its dynamism and identity. The objective of this action is therefore to create an event to raise awareness among locals of its small heritage and to revive the village.
💼 What the programme involves
The workcamp will be hosted by the "Amis de Longages" association, which is very committed to local life and the preservation of heritage. The project covers three sites: Rehabilitation of a kiosk, former public place, small local heritage built in accordance with the region’s tradition, in red brick (restoration of the roof and the floor) to make it a place of books deposit to facilitate everyone’s access to culture. Removal and rehabilitation of a cross in the heart of the village. Cleaning a gravestone from an old cemetery that is no longer being used. The 3 sites will be supervised by the local association’s members ("Les Amis de Longages"), specialized in heritage preservation. The volunteers will be distributed to the 3 sites in order to give a greater visibility to this action. The workcamp will consolidate the actions set up by the Longages heritage conservation association. The workcamp has a real interest for the development of local life.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Participants will be accommodated in the associations’ hall where they will have access to all the amenities near the stadium. Meals will be prepared by volunteers in turn.
📍 About the location
Longages is a village of about 3000 inhabitants in the Haute Garonne county, 30km from Toulouse. Local associations are dynamic and the workcamp is part of the will from local associations and the municipality to improve its living environment so that this village keeps its character and is not only a Toulouse suburb.