📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Moirax is one of the most beautiful village in the Agen city region, from its amazing natural landscapes to 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 was 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.
💼 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. You will need to work on high scaffoldings, be advised!
🏠 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.
⚠️ Requirements
Bring clothes, gloves and work shoes, a raincoat, hiking shoes, a flashlight and a swimsuit. The nights can be cool; so take warm clothes and a good sleeping bag. You can also take recipes from your country, musical instruments and games.
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.
ℹ️ Additional information
Meeting point:
Agen train station
Closest airport:
Bordeaux or Toulouse