📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Come to discover Saubusse, a charming village surrounded by the Landes forest. Saubusse history is marked by water. It is an ancient trade harbour, lying on the shores of the Adour River and bordered by several tributary streams. This year the work will mainly be about cleaning the Jouanin stream from invasive weed, but also about some little renovation works on the reception hall.
💼 What the programme involves
The Jouanin stream needs a serious cleaning to avoid invasive weed to destroy the natural habitat of several species. These invasive weeds are stopping the natural flow of the water and the evacuation of the sediments. This is causing floods during which the municipality suffers serious damage. The cleaning will be done by hands. You will also participate in the local village life by renovating the reception hall of Saubusse, mainly doing little works.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be staying on the municipal stadium. Tents for 2 will be provided. Please bring your sleeping bag. There will also be a collective tent for cooking and collective life. You will share collective tasks and prepare meals as a group. You will also have to manage a budget pro-vided by the group facilitators and participate in grocery shopping, giving priority to healthy and local foods.
📍 About the location
Saubusse (1000 inhabitants) it’s a charming village located in the Landes department, 30 kms from Bayonne and 20 kms from the Atlantic Ocean beaches.
ℹ️ Additional information
Bring a warm sleeping bag, working clothes, gloves and shoes, warm and rain clothes and a flashlight.
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.