The Villages des Jeunes is surrounded in the magnificent nature of the North Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur.
The Faï – national and international centre of meeting – is a splendid historic farmhouse situated 3,5 km from the village of Le Saix, the closest village, and 17 km from the city of Veynes.
Located at an altitude of 1000 metres in a valley, the place benefits from a well preserved environment composed of forests and mountain rivers. The mountains around offer many possibilities for beautiful hikes.
Quite close to the Faï farm (25 minutes by walking) and up in the mountains, the ruins of an old abbaye, the Abbaye of Clausonne, which have been renovated by volunteers can be visited.
The farmhouse hosts people from different social and cultural situations to work together at something useful: Environment and renovation work (painting, plumbery, electricity, construction work, landscaping, wood work, gardening), cultural activities (concerts and music festivals organised in cooperation with local associations, intercultural meals, thematic days) and hosting work (cooking, preparing accomodation, taking care of facilities, welcoming and helping groups and people).
The volunteers are part of the permanent team who runs the project throughout the opening season.
They are involved transversely in all the actions that are carried out by the association.
They help with the management of the centre : prepare and clean the accomodation, plan the menus, organize activities and animations, orientate and inform the newcomers.
Volunteers also lead some activities and, through these activities, facilitate interactions and cultural exchanges between the very different people who come in Faï. Volunteers have a key role in supporting the permanent staff with more specific hosting, like young adults or teenagers faced with social, familial or professional difficulties. Volunteers organise activities and animations during weekdays, evenings and weekends and help the permanent team to take care of the public with more specific needs.
Volunteers can get involved in other actions of the association such as promoting international voluntary service and international workcamps to young people and helping with the internal and external communication of the association.
The volunteers will be involved:
- French courses are given from the rural social centre of Aspres sur Buëch.
- Sports activities and visits in collaboration with local organisations and tourism offices.
- Cultural outings (cinema, concerts, festivals).
- Discovery of the natural environment: hikes, fauna and flora, geology, bath in the moutain river.
- Events at the centre: barbecue, pizza parties, international and intercultural evenings
If you are interested please send your CV and a motivation letter to the following email address: sve@cesie.org within on 26th September.
