📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Come and help us restoring a 6km hiking trail! You will be doing the sign marking and the naming of the paths. Come and discover a verdant small village, hiding nice hiking paths and the remains of a rich and original artistic past. Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin is located a hundred kilometers from Paris. The municipality offers you this workcamp about environment and wood working. You will be doing the sign marking of the hiking trail and the pyrography on the wooden information panels along the trail. Activities to discover the surrounding area and cultural visits will be organised for you, to make your experience the richest possible!
💼 What the programme involves
With a technical leader, your main task will be to sign mark the hiking trail placing different wooden posts and to do pyrography on wooden panels to name the different paths along the trail. You will also have the possibility to work on other tasks such as building insect hostels to be set along the paths. You will lead different workshops about culture and environment for the inhabitants of Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin, proposing playful activities in order to share and discuss your experiences and your culture with them.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation will be under tents, in the garden of a house in Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin. The group will be sharing the cleaning chores and preparing meals together. The budget will be allocated to the group leader and you will participate in the preparation of dishes with healthy produce from the market and local producers.
📍 About the location
Located just two hours from Paris, you will be immersed in the heart of a small village of the region Ile-de-France. Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin is located in the Seine-et-Marne department, which is formed of several natural regions like Brie and Gâtinais.
In the village you will find: the Pays de Seine-et-Marne Museum, the house of the writer Pierre Mac-Orlan, the Auberge de l'oeuf dur, an old Parisian cabaret that used to host many artists in the beginning of the 20th century and is now being renovated, and a roman gothic church guarding different relics of the past.
ℹ️ Additional information
Please bring gardening gloves, good shoes and working clothes. As the nights can be quite cold, remember also to bring warm clothes and a sleeping bag.
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 project, volunteers will have to pay for it, and then be reimbursed once back in their home country