📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The garden surrounds the friendly Parc de la Varenne in Tonnay-Charente, a charming village in the south-west of France. The lighting of the Varenne garden is a project carried out by a group of young teenagers from the association Centre d’Animation Polyvalent (CAP), which aims to contribute to individual and collective emancipation and to the education of young people, teenagers and adults. As part of its actions, the youth service has accompanied a group of young people in their desire to carry out an international project in 2018. It aims not only to revive the garden of Varenne, which has not been exploited enough, but also honour the international workcamp by making a fresco with a façade of the city. The group of young French CAP (a dozen people) will also participate entirely in the workcamp (work, collective life on site, outings, etc.)
💼 What the programme involves
With the help of a technical supervisor you will make an aromatic garden. The work involves creating wooden bins to accommodate the various aromatics plants, arranging the layout of the garden and the bins as well as planting aromatics and maintaining them.
For the fresco, you will be guided by a professional graffiti artist, which will allow you to learn the techniques and uses of this art form. The work around the fresco will consist, on choosing the theme as a group, creating the décor, trying out the practice and then creating the fresco on the external wall.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Camping in tents in the Parc de l’Institut Médico-éducatif (IME) of Tonnay-Charente, adapted to receive campers, with free access to the facilities of the boarding school of the IME. Food ingredients will be provided and meals will be prepared, in teams, taking turns, with the help of a facilitator.
📍 About the location
Tonnay-Charente, Charente-Maritime, à 40 km de La Rochelle.
Leisure activities: The young people of the CAP and the local people will propose activities that aim to immerse you in the local lifestyle (home made meal, raft races, strolls and discovery of the territory by boat, participation in activities of CAP) During the leisure time, you can participate in local festivities such as "Tonnay fête sa Charente", the national day and the show "site en scène" You will also have the opportunity to visit major cities such as La Rochelle or Poitiers and discover the L’Île d’Aix and Fort Boyard.