📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Ressons le Long is a village located in the Aisne on the edge of the Oise. This dynamic municipality wants to promote the participation of young people in the town's life. For instance, in this municipality there's a municipal Youth Council with a junior Mayor. The workcamp is made for creating exchanges between the locals and the volunteers. Consequently, you will be closely associated with the town's life.
💼 What the programme involves
You will work around the St. Georges’ Church, a historical monument. There is a path with a stone retaining wall, your job will be to repoint the joints, change some missing stones while respecting the spirit of the site by using traditional technique with lime.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will sleep in the heart of the village, in tents, with boys and girls separated. You will use the community hall of the village for the daily needs (preparing meals, meals, showers and toilets.). You have to walk 4 min to go from one site to another.
📍 About the location
Ressons Le Long is along the Aisne river, a few kilometers from the city of Soissons and at the edge of Compiegne’s forest and its famous castle, a small replica of Versailles’ royal castle. More info: http://www.ressonslelong.com/
⚠️ Requirements
Remember to take clothes for the manual work and closed-toe shoes like baskets. For the accommodation under tents, bring your sleeping bag and floor mat. Please feel free to bring some food specialities, pictures, musical instrument: things you like and want to share with the group and the local community!
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:
Soissons train station, more or less 1 hour from Paris-Gare du Nord.
Closest airport:
Paris
Fee:
165€