📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The city of Saint-Jean de Braye and the Local Sociocultural Organization (ASCA) are two organizations working side by side with the youth from the city of Saint-Jean de Braye.
Around inclusion, animation of the district life, youth information, these social actors work together with Concordia to propose a common action in order to bring together young people with various origins and backgrounds.
This first cooperation will allow international young people and local young people to meet and build strong links of friendship while constructing and creating activities together in a popular district. Indeed, a group of 5 young people of Saint-Jean de Braye will regularly participate in workshops and leisure activities, with the 10 volunteers from Concordia.
💼 What the programme involves
The aim of this workcamp is to promote natural heritage of the town. You will clean and build the riverbank of the “Parc de Coquille”, a park known for its rich and characteristic biodiversity. To make the park more accessible, you will work on the grading and levelling around a stairway, arranging a sandy pathway and constructing signpost at the entrance of the park. You might also build birdhouse for different species in the park.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In collective accommodation on the public gymnasium, sleeping on camp bed. Please bring your sleeping bag and sleeping-mat. Sanitary facilities in the same place closed to the sleeping place with locker room and shower.
Cooking and eating with fitted kitchen in elementary school.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 good products from the market and local producers. You can also cook your recipe and share with the others participants during intercultural meal.
📍 About the location
Located in the Loiret County and Centre region.
Between the Loire to the South, Orleans Forest to the North, surrounded by Orleans city to the West, Saint-Jean de Braye spread along Loire’s Valley.
At the heart of the Val de Loire, classified in the UNESCO world heritage in conformance with "cultural living landscape", the city owes its reputation to his industrial past and exceptional biodiversity. You will have the opportunity to celebrate the local festivities of July, especially the fireworks on the 14th of July. You will also discover the local heritage by visiting historical building (Castle of the Coquille, Castle of Lounges Allees…) and leisure activities like swimming pool, open-air dance hall, mobile games library…
More information about the town: http://www.saintjeandebraye.fr/
ℹ️ Additional information
As the workcamp takes place in an urban area, for practical and eco-friendly reasons, you will have to walk or use bikes for local transportation.
Please bring good shoes, working and casual clothes. Bring clothes for both sunny and rainy days. As nights may be quite cold, remember to bring warm clothes. Don’t forget to bring a sleeping-mat and a warm 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 happen on the project, volunteers will have to pay for it, and then be reimbursed once back in their home country.