Animal Care and Resilient Living - Long term volunteering in France
INITIATIVE ET DEVELOPPEMENT CITOYEN
Initiative et Développement Citoyen
Lastours, France
Description
We are looking for 2 volunteers to support our main activities of the year: hosting of groups, care of animals and plants and help in the moving and creation of a new eco-land. The volunteer will take care daily of the food for animals, water and well being, and, together with other volunteers, will also maintain their spaces. Of course there are also the common tasks and the sustainable and green practices of each day. With this project, we aim to promote commitment, ledearship, autonomy and resilience in order to make our daily life more ethical. The current crises (health, environmental, social) require us to think about how within our daily lives we must promote respect for the environment and living together. The volunteers will experience a quality intercultural learning and an openness to the world, having the chance to free themselves from judgements. To know a bit about us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnj4TXPN4Qg&list=PLuzvJ12k2dRR4PxyJe6P2BmivT_S6RMSR&index=9
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
IDC is located in a small town, 20km from Carcassonne where the nearest train station and airport are (the volunteers will be picked from there and will be taken to the place). This region is rural, living mainly from wine farming and tourism. The place is surrounded by nature. Accomodation: volunteers will stay in mobile homes, in shared-rooms, usually with another volunteer of the same sex. Food will be bought twice per month, and volunteers will cook healthy and low-impact food! following the food guidelines. *we will move to a new land during the year, also near Carcassonne*
Training during the activity
The volunteers will be supported by our staff of professionals, who will guide them in order to achieve a succesfull accomplishment of the tasks. Although the development of tasks are in autonomy. Communication and feedback is important, specially to keep the good health of animals and plants. There will also be workshops proposed both from IDC and the volunteers, about sustainability, low-impact food, zero waste, DIY, climate change, resilience, personal development...
Participant profile
Motivation!!! :) We are looking for youngsters eager to HELP, learn and put their hands on! Proactive, creative, motivated to do and learn! Organized and responsible with the tasks, interested in cooking, hosting and caring for animals (animal lover) and plants (taking care of other living beings!) and ready to get dirty!! We are looking for energetic and responsible youngsters for this position. There will be many outdoors and physical tasks for the moving to the new land, each person will be asked to help as he/she cans!
Activity dates
From 17/06/2024 to 25/05/2025
Activity location
Lastours, France
Individual volunteering
Looking for participants from
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania
Activity topics
Environment and natural protection
Creativity and culture
Deadline for applications
No application deadline