📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
If you love boats, this is the workcamp for you!
Come to take part in the renovation of the outside of a barge moored on the banks of the Seine. This barge hosts an association: L'Arche de l'espérance, a lively and friendly place, for reflection, creativity and initiative. Located West of Paris region, this barge has a surface of around 250m2 and welcomes various activities all year round: writing workshop, arts lessons, language exchange, movie projection, etc.
💼 What the programme involves
Guided by a team of workcamp leaders, you will participate in the renovation of the outside of the barge: cleaning, sanding and painting. You will also take part in the installation of the signage of the association. You will organize moments to share with Triel-sur-Seine's residents.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The accommodation will be on the barge, in the lower level.
You will share the various daily collective tasks with the other volunteers. The workcamp leaders will be given a budget and you will take part in the shopping and the preparation of meals, favouring local and healthy products.
📍 About the location
The barge is located in Triel-sur-Seine, West of Paris. Its largest part spreads out on the hillsides of Hautil, one of big forests of Ile-de-France. This municipality is close to Saint-Germain-en-Laye, to the Palace of Versailles and is situated an hour from the centre of Paris by the train.
ℹ️ Additional information
As you will be accommodated in a barge, it is mandatory to know how to swim!
Remember to bring warm and waterproof clothes and shoes, and a good sleeping bag. The nights can be chilly! Plastics boots could be very useful, they would allow you to not slide when you clean the pontoon.