📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Moirax is one of the most beautiful village in the Agen city region, for its amazing natural landscapes and its beautiful built heritage.
The village strives to preserve its natural and rural lands while promoting tourism, helped by the presence of a remarkable historical monument: the Cluny Priory. Major restoration work were undertaken in the 1950s to save the monument while respecting the original architecture. But the fragile walls are still degrading. The project for this summer will be to consolidate and rebuild these walls. This year Moirax will host participants from other workcamps on the 21st of July to work together on the walls and share the day all together!
💼 What the programme involves
You will start the restoration of the walls surrounding the borough. You will reinforce the damaged parts using traditional masonry techniques and rebuild the destroyed parts to allow the preservation of the heritage and to perpetuate the history of the village. Please note that you will have to work on scaffoldings. Last year volunteers work with several locals that want to renew the experience this year!
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will have a basic roofed accommodation including a kitchen and a room for collective life. You will share the various collective tasks and prepare meals as a group. A budget that you need to manage will be allocated by the animators. You will participate in grocery shopping and meal preparation, emphasizing on healthy and local products.
📍 About the location
Looking over Agen city and the Garonne river valley, the village of Moirax is located south-east of the Lot-et-Garonne county, 9 Km from Agen city. It benefits from the proximity of the city and the countryside. Its territory spreads to the hills of Gascogne region, on the left bank of the Garonne River, which forms the northern communal boundary.
ℹ️ Additional information
Bring a sleeping bag, working clothes, sports shoes, warm clothes and rain gear, a flashlight, a swimsuit and sunscreen.
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 then be reimbursed once back in their home country.