📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
L'Arche Lille Metropole is a community in the city of Lille, northern France. The organisation owns 3 day centres for people with disabilities. It also owns a forth building, la Maison Saint-François which is a shared house. In this house, people with disabilities, isolated elderly, students or young people starting a professional activity are living together (15 people).
The aim of this house is to include people that are often left aside by the society. Living together creates bonds between the housemates and dignifies the residents.
💼 What the programme involves
The work time will be split between activities with the residents and manual work for the renovation of the house inside and outside. The task will be diverse such as gardening, pruning, wood cutting, painting, cleaning. The time spent in the manual task will be the same as the one spent doing activities with the residents. The volunteer will be cooking, playing or going for a walk with the residents. Furthermore, any artistic abilities or ideas for activities are welcome.
The volunteers will collaborate with the professionals and the local volunteers.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will stay in a 2 beds studio with bathroom and toilets. They need to bring a sleeping bag and a pillow with them. The volunteer will cook for the community with the help of the residents.
📍 About the location
The camp is taking place in Lille, norther France
⚠️ Requirements
Be ready to work but mostly to live a unique experience. This house is a new progressive project on people's inclusion and many organisations are already thinking about opening the same kind of structures.
ℹ️ Additional information
The camp is open for people with a physical disability, but they need to be autonomous.