📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
For the first time, the municipality of Yolet organises an international workcamp. In the Cantal department, in the north of Aurillac, at 650 m altitude, several hamlets built on the southern slopes above the Cere, make up the charming village of Yolet. Recently, a ruined foundry has been discovered, and the municipality decided to enhance this heritage. In the framework of territory beautification work, with the will of a real encounter between volunteers and inhabitants, Yolet wants to organize a workcamp during the summer 2016. Too, the municipality has the hope that young people of Paulhac could involve in the rehabilitation of the historic and cultural heritage of their region.
💼 What the programme involves
The goal of the workcamp is to give a new life to the old foundry discovered on the territory. For this, you will have to disassemble, to sort, to clean objects and stones. The land chosen to exhibit these remains is sloping, so earthworks will be useful. The municipality wants to make a porch with beautiful stones found on the site of the foundry, and to highlight the tools found there (bellows ...) to give a new life to this forgotten foundry.
The group can also be divided into several work teams to also build an outdoor stone barbecue, near the village hall. Indeed, the municipality wants to promote beautiful stones currently unused, and an outdoor barbecue could be a great festive and convivial opportunity to meet locals and those who frequent the hall.
You will participate in the work with other international volunteers and technical supervisor will teach you specific techniques. The work takes place in the morning for 5 hours maximum. Afternoons and weekends are dedicated for activities.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated in the village hall : in the wide hall there will be a sleeping and a dining area. Nearby are the changing rooms of the football field with all facilities (showers, toilets). Mattresses will be provided, please bring your sleeping bags and warm clothes. A budget and all the equipment necessary for cooking will be supplied (dishes ...), you”™ll cook in turn, by two people, and tables and chairs will be available to enjoy meals together. To be accommodated like this at the heart of the village and in a strategic place of the social and cultural life of the town (football field, playground nearby) will be for you a great way to build lasting relationships with locals. Jeunesse et Reconstruction can't take care of the volunteers before the start date of the project.
📍 About the location
From its location, Yolet has all the richness of the Cantal mountains landscapes : walks in the valley and on the plateau constantly offer stunning views of the area. Its historical and cultural heritage is also quite remarkable: the Church of St. Peter and Paul (XIV and XV century) entered at the heritage of France, a cross on which the sun and moon were carved, the bread oven of Couderc, castles of Boudieu, of Doux and Yolet ... Moreover, in the municipality of Yolet, many associations energize local life by their animations. A 7 km from Aurillac as the crow flies, you can also enjoy all the services of this great city (cinema, museums, theater, sports ...)!
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