ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION
Create pleasant and practical living spaces for the school’s students and enhance the school’s superb heritage: retrace its history and open the site to the public. Concretely, this will involve inventing arrangements with the children, building furniture out of recycled materials, painting a fresco on the wall, renovating and embellishing the park of the castle, classified as a Historic Monument so that it is accessible to children and the inhabitants of the town. The volunteers will be in contact with the children every day and will be able to organize with them and the teaching team cooking, games and sports sessions or evenings to introduce cultures of the world and awake children to the notions of solidarity and civic commitment. In this context, the supervisory team will ensure that each volunteer, whatever his or her language level, will have the opportunity to exchange with the children, the educational team and the residents of the village.
ACCOMMODATION, FOOD AND TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENTS
École Hériot is a building that can accommodate more than 200 children in boarding school, composed of classrooms and theatre and surrounded by a park of more than 10 ha. You will sleep in a bed, in collective rooms. Remember to bring a shower towel with you. Meals are taken in charge by the School and will be cooked by the volunteers and by the cook of the School. Lunch will be taken with the children. A washing machine will be at your disposal to do your laundry.
TRAINING DURING THE ACTIVITY
La Boissière is located in the department of Yvelines and 85 km from Paris. It is a small town close to Paris, with a remarkably built and natural heritage, to offer you a dose of nature 1h30 from Paris and 30 min from Rambouillet. You will be able to organize walks in the forest, the visit of the castle of Rambouillet, of Versailles, a bike ride, a getaway in Paris and many other things according to your desires! A bus network will allow you to move around the area.
PARTICIPANT PROFILE
Open to every volunteers interested in working with kids and participate to a solidarity project.
APPLY
ACTIVITY DATES
A total of 3 week(s) during the period 03/05/2021 to 24/05/2021
ACTIVITY LOCATION
Rue du Commandant Hériot, 78125 La Boissière-Ecole France
LOOKING FOR PARTICIPANTS FROM
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Croatia, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, Saint Martin (french part), Martinique, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, St Pierre and Miquelon, Pitcairn, Réunion, French Southern and Antarctic Territories, Wallis and Futuna
ACTIVITY TOPICS
Education and training
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
Application deadline: 23/04/2021
