📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Located 650 meters above sea level in the Puy de Dome, Saint Avit is a small rural town of 250 inhabitants. In a privileged environment, with a preserved natural environment, it is with enthusiasm that the town and its inhabitants wish to organize an international workcamp this summer.
💼 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
Saint Avit is situated in the department of Puy de Dome which does not miss attractions: gone hiking in volcanoes, visit of Clermont-Ferrand, bathing in lakes, discovered by attractive classified villages or still participation to the local parties Your group will have at it disposal a mini bus the weekends and last week of the workcamp.
⚠️ 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
ℹ️ Additional information
Chantier ouvert aux Francais a partir de 17 ans