📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The town of Retournac is partner of this project and will be pleased to welcome during this summer international volunteers. Retournac is a small city with has a rich natural heritage (Loire river runs along the city) and exceptional building. Website of the city : http://www.ville-retournac.fr/Moreover, two associations are also partners in this project. Friends of ARTIAS where volunteers have set the goal of enhancing the ARTIAS CASTLE overlooking the Loire gorges. And Friends of JUSSAC where members organize events in the village of the same name.
💼 What the programme involves
Operations will be carried in relation with the two local associations. The first mission will focus on the development of the site of the castle of ARTIAS: restoration of stone walls. The second mission will be carried out JUSSAC: you will participate in the restoration of a bread oven. Both sites are located in the municipality of Retournac.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated under tents in the campsite. Mattress and tents provided. Bring your sleeping bag and WARM CLOTHING. Showers and toilets nearby. Kitchen in the big tent where you will prepare your meals. Nearby shops. The campground is located along the LOIRE river : it s a picturesque spot.
📍 About the location
Retournac is in the region of Haute-Loire . The area offers many opportunities for walking and recreation: swimming in the river, heritage tour, festival, ...
⚠️ 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/ At the end of the work camp, no transportation will be organized by our association. You will then have to arrange with the work camp leader your own means of transport to return to the train station.7/ More info about trains : http://www.voyages-sncf.com/ 8/ It is not possible for foreigners to change traveler-checks into cash money at the French bank agencies: please do it before the workcamp starts at money changers (in airports, main train stations, big cities).9/ A transportation will not be organize during the workcamp for work and activities.10/ If you have a driving license, please bring it along in case of necessity
ℹ️ Additional information
NB : chantier ouvert a partir de 17 ans pour les participants francais