📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Each year, by hosting volunteers and international workcamps, this town of 3000 inhabitants, works to restore its heritage and take part in inter cultural exchanges. Indeed, Montendre hosts one of the international workcamps of Solidarités Jeunesses, the House of Bateleurs. The town wishes to preserve and enhance its castle, an important aspect of their heritage identity. It is in this sense that the municipality has recently set up a walking tour around it. Therefore, the project that has been taking place for the past years will continue.
💼 What the programme involves
This year, you will intervene on the restoration of the ramparts of the castle. The objective will be to carry out traditional masonry work : dis joining, digging the joints and joining them with lime mortar. You will also perform some repairs on the ramparts such as replacing stones and rebuilding parts of the stone walls.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In dormitories in the international reception centre, La Maison des Bateleurs. Food ingredients will be provided and in exchange you will take care of preparing your meals.
📍 About the location
Montendre, Charente Maritime, 65 km from Bordeaux.
Leisure activities: You will participate in the national heritage days (opening of all heritage buildings in France). Tours of the region will be organized collectively according to your desires: visits of cities, ocean, museums, etc. Interactions with the La Maison des Bateleurs will be regularly offered: pizza evening, games evening, etc., so you can discover how the regional delegation of Solidarités Jeunesses works. You will also have the opportunity to exchange your cultural wealth with the inhabitants and associations of Montendre.