📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
La Maison des Bateleurs has been, for the past 20 years, an international hosting center that's witnessed rich intercultural meetings and exchange. Situatuated near the municipality of Montendre, a small charming village in the midst of pine trees, la Maison des Bateleurs is driven by the daily presence of volunteers, and intends to a place that encourages openess and cultural and social diversity.
Sustainable development is a timely theme that has the potential to affect many sectors. That is why la Maison des Bateleurs has taken on the job of creating an environmental hub: a phytosanitary pool, dry toilets, a compost, an organic garden, prioritizing the use of nautrel environmental resources, etc.
With this project, you will be actively working for the Sustainable Development Goal n°12 from the United Nations: Responsible production and consumption.
💼 What the programme involves
During this workcamp, you will actively participate in life at la Maison and in different activities: communal life (cooking, housework, organization, etc.), intercultural exchanges (meeting with the local population and volunteers of the association), etc. The objective of this workcamp is, using exchanges and a transference of intergenerational knowledge and experience, to make you more aware of sustainable development and an active participant in the activities of the environmental hub, notably, the vegetable garden. Your work will primarily consist of maintaining the vegetable garden (seeding, re-culturing, hoeing, watering, harvesting). Aside from this, you'll help maintain the compost bins, the phytosanitary pool, the chicken coop, and the bamboo grove.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Communal, in a dormitory and/or in individual rooms at la Maison des Bateleurs. Meals will be prepared alternately by kitchen teams (families and international volunteers that are present).
📍 About the location
Location: Montendre, Charente-Maritime, 75km from the ocean, between Bordeaux and Angoulême.
Leisure activities: Excursions throughout the region will be organized collectively according to your interest: visits to towns, the sea, museums, etc. Activities with the host center will be regularly proposed to you: evening of pizza, evening of games, etc. This will also be an opportunity to discover how a dynamic organization like Solidarités Jeunesses functions.
ℹ️ Additional information
Open to 1 child (5-15 y.o.) + 1 parent minimum
Participation fee:
- 50€ for children under 10
- 100€ for children over 11 and adults