Welcome to the eco-hamlet! 3
France
Teenagers
Renovation
Environment
Teenagers
Renovation
+1
Fixed dates
About the project
Welcome to the eco-hamlet! 3
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Are you interested into an environmental challenging experience? Come and experiment a three weeks full inmersion into an eco-friendly association where you can learn how to produce your own basic products (hygiene products, food). This will be a once in a life chance to discover the nature surrounding the place and to enjoy simple life activities such as cooking pizzas in an outdoor stone oven, gardening and discover agriculture, crafts activities. You will also share all these moments with the other people of the group and make new friends!
The association La Feina is managed by a group of people who have chosen to experience, daily, an eco-friendly way of life.
The association and its eco-hamlet come to life by organising educational workshops: crafts, agriculture, environmental education. The association also welcomes groups and events on the land. Their activities are integrated respecting the local dynamics. The eco-hamlet is located in a beautiful rural mountainous areas. The activities proposed are organised taking into consideration the surrounding environment and available resources.
Last year (2019), two workcamps were organised in La Feina. Volunteers helped organise an official opening celebration and started to renovate the hamlet's barn: the "GRAOUNGE".
More info: www.lafeina.lautre.net
💼 What the programme involves
The workcamp's goal is to help the association to develop. You will help restore the local heritage, continue the work begun by the group of volunteers last year:
You will help restore a typical barn in the area (inside and outside masonry work), which is designed to host cultural events to support the hamlet and the entire territory.
Your missions will be to remove the old joints and apply new mortar to make the barn waterproof and show its original appearance!
Beyond this masonry work, you will be immersed in the hamlet's life. You will help maintain the site, the vegetable garden, help with the picking and harvesting. Get ready to discover a new eco-friendly life-style and bring back home tons of new good practices!
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accomodated in tents (2 people per tent), in the eco-camping of the association. The tents will be provided. You will have to bring their camping equipment (ground sheet, sleeping bag, etc.). The campsite includes sanitary facilities (showers with solar-heated water, dry toilets) and a summer kitchen with a breathtaking view over the valley.
You will use and do your own environmental-friendly hygiene and care products (soaps, toothpaste, laundry, etc.).
You, volunteer, are actor/actress of your project ! You will manage the tasks of daily life in teams (shopping, cooking, and cleaning). You will also have the opportunity to bake your special meals in the association’s bread oven! A new experience to discover!
A rotation will be organised by the campleaders to ensure the smooth running of daily life. The objective is to gain autonomy and that everyone acts individually to allow a good collective functioning!
All together, you will think about how to work together, feed everyone, have fun, get around, visit the region in the most environnementaly and human-friendly way.
📍 About the location
The association is a charming drop-in center, located in a hamlet where the management group and some neighbours live together and host from time to time, holiday-makers, friends and hikers.
The hamlet is composed of a cottage, several workshops, some typical stone and wooden houses, a hut, a barn, some camping sites, a vegetable garden, an orchard...
The eco-hamlet is situated in the medieval town of Fontanges, very rich in heritage, in a valley near the Cantal Mountains, crossed by the river Aspre. There are many walks and hikes to do. You will be able to visit the surrounding villages, discover waterfalls and observe the local fauna and flora. Close by, you will be able to visit the typical village of Salers where you can meet craftsmen and taste delicious local specialties.
⚠️ Requirements
EXTRA FEES: reduced to 250€ for international volunteers. Pay attention! Our national participants in France pay the regular 360€ of extra fees. International volunteers coming from our partners in other countries than France pay only 250€ of extra fees.
ℹ️ Additional information
The hamlet is located in a beautiful, rather isolated, rural valley (15 minutes by car from the nearest village, 30 minutes by car from the nearest town).
The association does not have WiFi by choice, and the mobile network is weak. But don’t worry, enjoy reconnecting with yourself, the people around you and the environment! Volunteers can access a wired internet connection and network sharing.
Unfortunately, the site is not accessible by wheelchair.
As you understood, sustainable development is in the heart of the project. For reasons of consistency, we encourage you to choose environmentally friendly ways to travel and avoid planes if possible.
Globally on our teenager’s camps, we chose to book half of the spots for french volunteers. The aim is to allow a maximum of young people to access intercultural learning, to promote volunteer's commitment as a first step and then experience international workcamp abroad.
EXTRA FEES: reduced to 250€ for international volunteers. Pay attention! Our national participants in France pay the regular 360€ of extra fees. International volunteers coming from our partners in other countries than France pay only 250€ of extra fees.
By participating in this workcamp, you are thinking of the way you buy and eat (UN SDG 12 Responsible consumption and production) combatting climate change (UN SDG 13 Climate Action)
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📅 Available sessions
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04/08/2020 → 24/08/2020
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ℹ️ Key information
Age required
14–17 years old
Solidarity donation
360.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Puy Basset, 15140 Fontanges, France
France
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)
Timezone
Central European Standard Time
Local time: 21:14 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🗣️ Languages spoken
English
French