📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Located 900 meters above sea level in the heart of Regional Park Livradois, Saint-Amant-Roche-Savine is often considered as a dynamic village. In a privileged environment, with a preserved natural environment, fifteen associations unites people around various activities such as sports, art or culture. In order to further increase its tourist appeal, the town wants to organize a workcamp youth volunteers, for the second time in 2018. The goal: the restoration of small heritage.
💼 What the programme involves
Your mission during workcamp is to restore the small heritage. You will participate to the work with other international volunteers and a technical supervisor will teach you specific techniques. The work takes place the morning for 5 hours maximum. Afternoon and weekends are dedicated to activities
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will stay at the football stadium a few meters from downtown. Tents and mattresses will be provided, please bring a sleeping bag. You ll have on-site access to all the facilities (toilets, electricity ...). The showers will be taken in the recreation room. There will be a kitchen area with refrigerator, stove, tables and chairs so you can eat together. You will cook in turn, by two, and a budget will be allocated to food shopping in the grocery store of the town.
📍 About the location
Located on average mountain, the town offers magnificent views of the mountains of FOREZ. You can admire during your walks on the many marked trails specificity of landscapes, fauna and flora. Heritage is unique: since 2014, the municipality is committed to the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism Development with the Regional Natural Park Livradois. In this protected natural environment, you can walk, swim in the river, visit exceptional sites such as Saint Bartholomew s Episcopal Church, whose interior is completely painted, or jasseries of FOREZ. Many tourists visit the Holiday Villages of Saint-Amant-Roche-Savine, 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.parc-livradois-forez.org/There will be a big party the last weekend of your stay: the chance to live unforgettable moments in the heart of French culture
⚠️ 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