📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
This is the first year of partnership between Concordia and Community of communes of “Oree de Berce-Belinois”. This project is organized by the Youth Information Point and the Youth Service of the community, to allow local and international young people to participate for 10 days in a project useful to the community, in a framework of intercultural encounters.
💼 What the programme involves
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You will work on the construction of a stone well (traditional masonry) in the village of Teloche, south of Le Mans.
This youth workcamp is the result of collaboration between the Concordia association, the Community of communes of the “Oree de Berce-Belinois”, and the village of Teloche. The town hall is in charge of a project to enhance the town centre by developing collective spaces. This workcamp is part of this project. For this first year of partnership, a group of 8 young internationals and 8 young locals will work together on this well construction. You will be accompanied by competent leaders throughout the workcamp to help you step by step in learning these techniques!
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be staying in a collective accommodation in tents, boys and girls separated. Bring a floor mat and a warm sleeping bag. You will have access to sanitary facilities in a local football club building. Collective life and kitchen at the municipal stadium. You will share the different collective tasks and prepare meals together. The budget will be allocated to the group leader and you will participate in the preparation of dishes with good products from the market and local producers.
📍 About the location
Teloche is located in the south of Sarthe, 15 km south of Le Mans.
Various activities will be organized in parallel with the construction of the well: cultural discovery, heritage visit, organization of big games and animations in the commune, parade and fireworks on July 14th.
⚠️ Requirements
Pour les volontaires français sur ce chantier en France (to our national participants in France) :
Pour les français s'inscrivant sur notre site, les frais de participation additionnel (200 €) indiqués dans cette description sont directement intégrés aux frais d'inscription "ADOS en France" de 460 €. En effet, ceux-ci comprennent à la fois les frais d'inscription de 260 € et les frais de participation de 200 €.
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https://www.concordia.fr/chantiers-france-2020
ℹ️ Additional information
You will work on small scaffoldings. Please bring gardening gloves, good shoes and working clothes. As nights can be quite cold, also remember to bring warm clothes. Do not forget to bring a sleeping mat, a warm sleeping bag (and a tent if you have your own!).
Don’t hesitate to bring specialties from your place, photos, games, music instruments, etc.
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 will then be reimbursed once back in their home country.