📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Created in 2018, Les Cultivateurs de Liens is an association whose goals are :
- Producing food that respects the environment by fulfilling the criteria of organic farming and more
- Cultivating the social bond by opening the association to all in order to break the isolation, fight against the exclusion and the stigmatization of the precarious public
- Create an horizontal governance structure in order to be dynamic, flexible and progressive
- Spread the knowledge about organic culture to minimize the human impact on the environment
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will participate in eco-gardening of vegetables and fruits. The tasks will be : Harvesting, weeding, planting, watering, pruning, mulching.
Realization of the beautification of the site: decoration, signage.
Help with the realization of a wind turbine.
Realization of a biological pond.
Saturday meal preparation with the members of the association.
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🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will be staying in the Emmaüs community. The building stands next to the garden. Emmaüs is a community that welcomes people with no home, no legal papers, migrants or refugees. The volunteers will join a multicultural community. They will stay in 2-3 people studios with a bathroom and toilets. The accommodation is simple.
📍 About the location
In Wambrechies, Northern France, close to Lille
⚠️ Requirements
Bring clothes for cold, sunny/hot and rainy weather. Be prepared to work outside everyday and be aware that working in a garden during the whole day can get physical.