📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
At the heart of an exceptional region with lush flora, let s come to a colorful town The municipality of Marmanhac wants to organize an international workcamp, in the framework of development projects and arrangement of its historical heritage. Marmanhac is 750 meters above sea level, facing the mountains of Cantal and Aubrac, near Aurillac City, where a big festival takes place on August. For more information on the town: http://www.marmanhac.fr/
💼 What the programme involves
Your mission will be to save a bread oven Work to safeguard this site will focus on the restoration of the stone walls .You will participate to the work with other international volunteers and a technical supervisor will teach you specific techniques concerning this restoration. The work takes place the morning for 5 hours maximum. Afternoon and weekends are dedicated to activities.
🏠 Accommodation on site
provided, please bring a sleeping bag. You ll have on-site access to all the facilities (toilets, electricity ...). The showers will be taken in a building 100 meters from the school. 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
Marmanhac is near the city of Aurillac so you will have the opportunity to live the international street theater festival of Aurillac This event will take place from August 21st to 24th. It is a great occasion to discover artists and to attend many free shows taking place in the streets of Aurillac. More infos : http://aurillac.net/Marmanhac has an exceptional heritage. You will have the chance to visit different historical building and perserved landscapes.Local associations are also very active and animate every year traditional event. As the locals say, We are committed to our natural, built and cultural environment, that we want to preserve, develop, so come to share and love it with us . In the region, you can admire landscapes, you can visit local farms, and hike on the many trails through mountains and rivers All information on local tourism: http://www.cantal-destination.com/
⚠️ 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