📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
To welcome youngsters in good conditions, the architectural works of the places has allowed to improve the modalities of reception of those young people. The rehabilitation of the main building, a castle of XVII century is still going on. With the collaboration of some of these young people, you will work on the restoration and on the rise of a low wall situated against the rampart of the castle. You will help the technical leader with the removal of vegetation, to remove plants from the facade, and to remove and replace the chalk mortar joints between the stones. Others works of traditional masonry, such as redoing the stone coping (top layer of the wall) and stone cutting.
🏠 Accommodation on site
indoors, in the MEI's residential school
📍 About the location
Tonnay-Charente, Charente Maritime, around 40 km of La Rochelle
Closest train station: Tonnay-Charente
🎒 Leisure activities
Excursions in the region and animations with the local population will be organized in order to live and to share times of encountering and intercultural exchanges. You will discover the local heritage: suspension bridge, former abbey, priory. During these leisure times, you will participate in local summer festivities (music festival, night market..) and you will visit famous towns as La Rochelle, enjoy a stroll on the beach, and swim in the ocean.