📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Situated in 900 above sea level in the heart of the Haute-Loire, Siaugues Sainte Marie is a small rural district often considered as a dynamic village. The wealth of the heritage built by the municipality offer a privileged and pleasant living conditions. With a protected natural environment, it is enthusiastically that the inhabitants and the local associations will receive you this summer.
💼 What the programme involves
Your mission during this workcamp is to preserve different elements of the building heritage of Siaugues. As the first mission you will act for the restauration of the washhouse.In addition, the bread oven also requires intervention.This project is a real opportunity to acquire manual craftsmanship in traditional masonry.You will participate to the work with other international volunteers and a technical supervisor will teach you specific techniques concerning this restoration. The work takes place the morning for 5 hours maximum. Afternoon and weekends are dedicated to activities.
🏠 Accommodation on site
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📍 About the location
Located on average mountain, the town offers magnificent views. You can admire during your walks on the many marked trails specificity of landscapes, fauna and flora. Heritage is unique: In this protected natural environment, you can walk, swim in the river, visit exceptional sites Many tourists visit the Haute - Loire where they enjoy during the summer of incomparable cultural programming. Like them, you may soon landscapes, markets, local producers, artisans, those that sustain this country http://www.gorges-allier.com/
⚠️ Requirements
1/ No special knowledge or competence is required for this camp, except being motivated and loving work in group You will share friendly moments with local people : be open-minded and curious.2/ Bring: sleeping bag, warm clothes and rain-coat, bathing suit (for male: short pants prohibited in the public swimming pools, please bring a bathing suit). 3/Bring for work: worn out clothes, safety shoes/boots compulsory. 4/ Bring some material from your culture (documents, pictures, postcards, little gift, musical instruments, games,...) to share with other volunteers and local population and make exchanges easier.5/ 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 on the camp, the volunteers will have to pay for it, and then get reimbursed once back in the home country. 6/ Transportation back to the train station at the end of the workcamp will be organized during your stay with the campleader.7/ More info about trains : http://www.voyages-sncf.com/ 8/ If you have a driving license, please bring it along in case of necessity