📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Saint Martin of Armagnac is a charming small municipality situated on the West of the Gers, on the border of Landes, inviting you to discover its numerous small treasures: the typical landscape is hilly, wooded and strewn with beautiful vineyards; its village, still shelters Gallo-Roman vestiges near its XVIth century castle. The Camasa association was created to advocate the preservation of the heritage and in particular one of its churches, the Church of Castagnet made with magnificent dressed stones coming from a nearby village, and from a raw earth.
💼 What the programme involves
The north facade of this church is degraded. You will have to rehabilitate this part of the church by applying a lime coating, then by replacing stones of one of the pillar of the church, and finally to rebuild missing cornerstones.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated under tents around a soccer stadium with access to cloakrooms, toilets and shower. You will have access to a building with a kitchen for the everyday life. You will participate in the preparation of the meals and will favour the use of local products.
📍 About the location
In the Armagnac area, Saint-Martin and the surrounding villages offer you quite specific architecture that you will have the leisure to appreciate. Furthermore, situated nearby are three of the most beautiful villages of France: Montréal-du-Gers (34km), Fources (39km) and Larressingle (39km). Saint-Martin d’Armagnac is close to the charming city of Eauze, capital of Armagnac, but also to Mont-de-Marsan in Landes. During the summer, you can enjoy various markets around, or chill and refresh at the nearby lake situated in the heart of the forest in the municipality of Aignan.
ℹ️ Additional information
Bring working clothes and shoes (waterproof if possible, in case of rain). Bring a warm sleeping bag and a good camping mat (sleeping in tent), nights are sometimes fresh and wet. Tents will be provided but you can also bring your own. Do not hesitate to bring specialties from home, photos, games, music instruments, etc. Foreigners belonging to the European Union must bring their 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.