📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Village of Youth of Mettray is an educative center for professional inclusion and medical support for youth. It hosts around a hundred young people, who face many sorts of difficulties, all year long. The idea is to mix the international volunteers group with the Institute of young people for some parts of the day in order to encourage them to develop exchanges with people from different backgrounds, and to integrate them in a collective project of tolerance and citizenship.
This beautiful place was created in the 19th century and is classified as Historical Monument. For several years, it hosts international workcamps which are contributing to the complete restoration of the site and has always provided a very warm welcome.
💼 What the programme involves
Restoration of stone walls around the place according to traditional masonry and landscaping.
🏠 Accommodation on site
you will be accomodated in one of the building where there is a kitchen, bathrooms and sleeping rooms. The accomodation conditions are basics. The group will organize itself the daily life and the leisure time.
📍 About the location
The small town of Mettray (about 2140 inhabitants) is located around 10km north west from Tours (Centre region). It is not far from several castles of the Loire Valley, a UNESCO Worl Heritage.
The leisure activities will depend on the group wishes.
⚠️ Requirements
open minded volunteers, mature and ready to work and share with all kinds of public!
This project is run under the OFAJ, and is open to Italian, German and French volunteers only.