📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Located in the Vercors, the association Base Nature Vercors wishes to allow everyone to discover life in the wild. Base Nature Vercors is a Drôme-based association located in the Vercors region. It is a place of initiation to the biosphere and to renewable energies. In parallel to the animations of discovery and protection of the environment, the association sets up
workshops, which then become educational means to reach their objectives. Since 2011, the association has been hosting international youth volunteer workcamps.
English will be your common language but to address the children, it will be in French, of course, it is not necessary to be bilingual.
💼 What the programme involves
The 8 young people will participate in the following projects:
- A pond on the Nature Base for periods of drought and to create an LPO refuge, it will be fed by the recovery of water from the showers.
The second week, they will participate in the organization of the puppet festival, and create a theatrical event.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated in tents on the site of "la Grange aux loups" and you will have sanitary facilities and showers on site. An outdoor kitchen and a living space will also be at your disposal. To facilitate relations within the group, cell phones, by mutual agreement, will only be available for one hour per day (usually at shower time).
With the help of your counselors, you will actively participate in the organization of daily life: preparation of meals, washing up, tidying up, cleaning, maintenance of the garden.
As much as possible, the meals will be prepared with local and organic products corresponding to the particular attention paid by the Base Nature Vercors association to the management of resources and waste on the site and to the origin of the food. From this point of view, you will certainly reduce your consumption of meat and thus your impact on the planet.
Lovers of outdoor life, this workcamp is made for you!
📍 About the location
Located in the heart of the Vercors Regional Natural Park, the Base Nature Vercors is located a few kilometers from the center of Vassieux-en-Vercors. A mountain village located at an altitude of more than 1,000m, it was a major site of the French Resistance during the Second World War. A museum dedicated to the history of the maquis will allow you to discover this part of local history.
You will be able to organize numerous leisure activities and discoveries with the association’s animators: hiking, collective games, visits to local producers, visits to a recycling center.
The Base Nature Vercors website will give you an overview of the place and the local activities: https://basenaturevercors.org/
