📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Pebbles, colours, families, and messages of peace... you are invited to spend time with your children and participate in workshops together while meeting other families with diverse backgrounds.
As part of the creation of a center for international volunteers on the premises of the association Citrus, come discover, learn, and share building and gardening techniques in the spirit of working together.
Since 2012, the three main buildings of Citrus : the offices, the barn, and the old stone farmhouse, have been located at the old hamlet Mayounelle, surrounded by green fields and a permaculture garden, with a view of the village of Laguépie. While accompanied by dynamic facilitators, you will share working hours, but also many moments of intercultural exchange and meals, with the team and other volunteers, all of whom will be hosted on the camp site.
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
All the materials will be accessible to those as young as 5 years old. You will participate in a "calade" workshop, working to creative a decorative paved work made of small pebbles of different shapes and colors around the giant barbecue in the shape of a compass rose. First, you'll be familiarized with the available space, then you will sort and arrange the pebbles according to shape and colours, in order to draw a global pattern that fits the theme of a compass rose. You will also build an insect hotel which will then be installed in Citrus’ permaculture garden. All these tasks will be broken up by maintaining the summer vegetables in the garden and the chickens. You will be accompanied by technical leaders and work in a team five mornings per week. Schedules will be adapted according to the weather conditions.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will live in a house that is used as a host center for international volunteers in the winter. You will have access to bathroom facilities, a fully equipped kitchen, a large living room and a washing machine. You will be in large dormitories, 15 minutes walk from the worksite and 3 minutes from the heart of the village. Lunches will be had with all the participants on Citrus’ site (teenagers, international volunteers, employees...). As for dinners, they will be made by the families who will organize themselves into kitchen teams and prepare the menus.
📍 About the location
Location: Village of Laguépie, in the Gorges of Aveyron, 100 km from North-East of Toulouse, between Albi and Villefranche-de-Rouergue.
Leisure activities: Outside of the time spent at the workcamp, you can enjoy swimming, walking, meeting other young people from the workcamp and Laguépie, organizing pizza evenings using the bread oven, enjoying gamenights, visiting exceptional medieval villages such as Najac, Cordes-sur-Ciel, Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, etc.
ℹ️ Additional information
Open to 1 child (5-15 y.o.) + 1 parent minimum.
Participation fee:
- 50€ for children from 5 to 10
- 100€ for children from 11 to 15 and adults