CBF15 MONCLAR DE QUERCY 1 07/07/08 - 26/07/08 12 vol RENO
A small rural town, perched on the last hills of "bas - Quercy", Monclar gives the impression of clinging on so as not to slide down the hill. In the past fortified, with an tumultuous history, Monclar had a big feudal Castle which was partially destroyed on several occasions in the past. Today the castle no longer exists. This municipality has been hosting groups of volunteers for several years. After undertaking the construction of wooden fences to recreate the fortifications of the castle, and of a little stone staircase and a fountain, last year the volunteers finished the restoration of a chapel near the school to host local cultural activities (theatre, exhibitions etc...).
Works: continuation of the realization of the fence on the hill of feudal castle, finishing the entrance (stone wall and wood), finishing repointing a wall of the school.

Location: this workcamp is located 50km from Toulouse and 20 km from Montauban. If you like nature, you will have the opportunity to go for walks around the lake. Rich in heritage, Monclar and the surrounding area offers a lot of unmissable sites: Gorges de l'Aveyron, Cordes Sur Ciel, St Antonin Noble Val, Forest of Grésigne…. There is a leisure centre and possibilities for various activities nearby.

Terminal: Montauban. Nearest airport: Toulouse.

Meeting point: on 07/07/08 at 16h36 in Montauban train station.

Accommodation: In wagons near a lake. A marabout (large conical tent) will be installed as temporary kitchen.



CBF16 MONTCLAR DE QUERCY 2 03/08/08 - 23/08/08 12 vol RENO
A small rural town, perched on the last hills of "bas - Quercy", Monclar gives the impression of clinging on so as not to slide down the hill. In the past fortified, with an tumultuous history, Monclar had a big feudal Castle which was partially destroyed on several occasions in the past. Today the castle no longer exists. This municipality has been hosting groups of volunteers for several years. After undertaking the construction of wooden fences to recreate the fortifications of the castle, and of a little stone staircase and a fountain, last year the volunteers finished the restoration of a chapel near the school to host local cultural activities (theatre, exhibitions etc...).
This year, the municipality wishes to continue the restoration of the small chapel situated a few kilometres from Monclar in the heart of the countryside. This chapel, built of stone and brick, endowed with a typical charm was de-plastered on the inside in 2007. Work: Repair of the joining of the red bricks with lime. Small-scale masonry work will also be done if necessary. BE CARREFUL : work at height on scaffolding.

Location: this workcamp is located 50km from Toulouse and 20 km from Montauban. If you like nature, you will have the opportunity to go for walks around the lake. Rich in heritage, Monclar and the surrounding area offers a lot of unmissable sites: Gorges de l'Aveyron, Cordes Sur Ciel, St Antonin Noble Val, Forest of Grésigne…. There is a leisure centre and possibilities for various activities nearby.

Terminal: Montauban. Nearest airport:Toulouse.

Meeting point: on 03/08/08 at in Montauban train station.

Accommodation: In wagons near a lake. A marabout (large conical tent) will be installed as temporary kitchen.



CBF17 MOURVILLES 1 09/06/08 - 27/06/08 8 vol RENO
The association " a place for utopia " which host individuals with long-term difficulties (like emergency accommodation, or in a campsite residence) is situated in the municipality of Mourvilles-hautes in the department of Haute Garonne. The head office of the association is situated on a hill near a wood that offers an open and panoramic view of the Pyrenees. This bucolic place allows vistors to recharge their batteries and to take advantage of the natural setting (environment, healthy and natural food). To bring an international dynamic and to revitalise the current projects, this association wishes to welcome you and to share with you moments of cultural exchange, conviviality based on human values and culinary wealth. Work: participation in the construction of a lagoon (draining, enclosure of the ponds, clearing) and intervention on the toilets of the campsite (fitting-out of the interior). Attention: work may be modified according to its progress.

Location: This workcamp is situated 21km from Castelnaudary and 50km from Toulouse. Several possibilities for hikes which will give you the occasion to discover the local nature and the countryside.
Discovery of the surrounding cultural and natural sites: Castelnaudary, Revel, St Ferréol …

Terminal: Castelnaudary. Nearest airport: Toulouse.

Meeting point: on 09/06/08 at 16h54 in Castelnaudary train station.

Accommodation: In the dormitory of the first floor of the living house. Bathrooms on the site. The meals will be prepared by members of the association.

Special remarks: A lot of contact with the members of the association. You will take advantage of the rich local gastronomy, consisting of natural products taken from the garden and from the farm (vegetables, poultry, pâté).



CBF18 MOURVILLES 2 04/08/08 - 23/08/08 8 vol RENO
The association " a place for utopia " which host individuals with long-term difficulties (like emergency accommodation, or in a campsite residence) is situated in the municipality of Mourvilles-hautes in the department of Haute Garonne. The head office of the association is situated on a hill near a wood that offers an open and panoramic view of the Pyrenees. This bucolic place allows vistors to recharge their batteries and to take advantage of the natural setting (environment, healthy and natural food). To bring an international dynamic and to revitalise the current projects, this association wishes to welcome you and to share with you moments of cultural exchange, conviviality based on human values and culinary wealth. Work: Works of masonry for the studio for emergency hosting (working with stones, the opening..). The works will be exactly defined later according to the progress.

Location: This workcamp is situated 21km from Castelnaudary and 50km from Toulouse. Several possibilities for hikes which will give you the occasion to discover the local nature and the countryside.
Discovery of the surrounding cultural and natural sites: Castelnaudary, Revel, St Ferréol …

Terminal: Castelnaudary. Nearest airport: Toulouse

Meeting point: on 04/08/08 at 16h54 in Castelnaudary train station.

Accommodation: In the dormitory of the first floor of the living house. Bathrooms on the site. The meals will be prepared by members of the association.

Special remarks: A lot of contact with the members of the association. You will take advantage of the rich local gastronomy, consisting of natural products taken from the garden and from the farm (vegetables, poultry, pâté).



CBF19 VIEUX 07/07/08 - 28/07/08 12 vol RENO
The municipality of Vieux is situated in the department of Tarn and has about 150 inhabitants. This small village of remarkable architecture and built on stone is situated where the Gaillacois and the forest of Grésigne cross. Due to its geographical situation, its typical houses, as well as its numerous hiking trails, the municipality of Vieux attracts every year many tourists who come to discover the architectural wealth of this small village and in particular its listed church. Vieux, with its inhabitants, who are very concerned about the protection of their village, has begun a program of embellishment of his municipality. Built in white stone, this village began the protection of its heritage with the restoration of its classified church, the local pride, which deserves a visit to discover this local wealth. To continue the development of its village, Vieux wishes to restore its washhouse situated in the heart of the village; a historic place, a place of exchange and a symbol of local identity.
Work: De-plastering and rejoining of the wall and the fountain of the washhouse. Digging, evacuation and cleaning of the entrance. Clearing, stone and lime construction of the collapsed wall. Small-scale works not defined yet.

Location: This workcamp is situated 15 km from Gaillac in the western North-West of the department of the Tarn, near Tarn-et-Garonne and 70 km from Toulouse. Discovery of the Gaillac region ( wine-producing area) and of the forest of Grésigne, classified site Natura on 2000. Region rich in heritage, you will have the occasion to discover beautiful villages, such as Penne, Castelnau de Montmiral, Cordes sur ciel…

Terminal: Gaillac Nearest airport: Toulouse

Meeting point: on 07/07/08 at 16h51 in Gaillac train station.

Accommodation: in premises (to be confirmed).



CBF20 HOW THE CITIES CHANGE? Dates not confirmed yet (August 08) - 20 vol
YFE project
Target group : Youth between 18 and 25 who have an interest for accommodation/urban change and who like dancing or who are interested to dance. It will be contemporary dance. In Bordeaux and suburbs they destroy the big and ugly building and build new ones better for people. Or near the city center some district which were disadvantaged before are now fashionable/popular. The life change a lot in those areas. Why? How? When? ...What’s happen about that in other cities, in other countries? Why and how cities change? The participants will dance with a professional dance teacher in many public places and disadvantaged areas in Bordeaux. Dance is a support to exchange about the urban mutation/how cities change. We hope to find french participants who have lived this experience and how they feel about this mutation. It’s also a way to give life in areas which change, which are in transition.The project still open to new propositions from you of course.

Location: Bordeaux (city in the south west of France, near Atlantic ocean (more or less 45 min by car), in wines and castles regionOfficial website: www.bordeaux-city.com

Nearest airport: Bordeaux

Special remarks: YiA project . Partners will be choosen during the TM.



CBFMTV01 - LUDOTHEQUE CASTRAISE - 02/07/08-15/08/08 1 vol KIDS
Since more than 20 years the Ludoteque of Castres is organising each summer a leisure centre with special activities in July and August for the children of our town. Leisure time activities are daily proposed from Monday to Friday from 9.00 to 18.30 to 50 - 60 kids in the age of 3 to 12 years old. These activities are organised by a team of 7 animators (aged from 20 to 30 years old) and this year the association decided to invite also an international volunteer to join the team of animators and to help to carry out the activities with the kids. The volunteer is fully integrated in the team as animator taking responsibilities, initiatives and is invited to bring a new international point of view, facilitating the discovery of another culture for the kids, intercultural learning and maybe some specific leisure activities linked to the country he/she is coming from. The group of children will be divided in 4 age-groups (3/4; 5/6; 6-9, 9-12) and the animator will develop adapted activities around some themes. The panorama of activities is very large and depends on the age of the kids, but always different sportive, cultural, scientific, creative or manual activities and excursions in the region and very different kinds of play schemes will be put into practice. Profile of the volunteer: The project looks for a dynamic and creative volunteer, willing to take responsibility and to gain some experience in the field of animation in France.
French language skills are requested, at least to communicate more or less well with the kids and the team. Some experience in animation or with an organisation of (leisure time) activities for kids would be very useful.

Location: This project will be in Castres. Terminal: Castres

Nearest airport: Toulouse

Accomodation: The volunteer has lodgement and food for free. For lunch s/he will eat with the kids, for the rest s/he will have a budget for food. He/she will have a single room in our apartment with our long term volunteers (EVS). No travel costs refund but 75€ pocket money for the period!

Language: French / English

Conditions: the volunteer will work in the leisure centre from July 4th to August 14th, but to facilitate her/his integration in the project and with the team s/he is invited to come some days before. The work in the leisure centre will be from Monday to Friday, about 35-40h (it will be intensive and long days!) but with free time at the weekends and also some half days free during the week. Men volunteers will be preferred.
Please send application and motivation letter, deadline for selection end of April.


LONG TERM VOLUNTARY SERVICE "IMPROVE LODGING of FAMILIES "
IN DIFFERENT CBF REGIONS.

As you probably know CBF has a long practice with LTV, by hosting people from different cultures and nationalities for nearly 50 years now ! The teams from 3 to 7 people are working and living together in 1 of the 4 places in France where Compagnons Bâtisseurs are (Marseille, Montpellier, Tours and Rennes). Each LTV team shares a flat and manage with every day life together. The teams are made of young people, boys and girls, French and volunteers from abroad, conscientious objectors, EVS volunteers committed for a period of 12 months.

They work in building renovation or construction to bring concrete help to families in need, marginalized or excluded from society. The work also includes the participation of the families in the choice of the project, in the administrative procedures and in the carrying of the work. They also share the meals with families, an important moment for meeting and getting to know each other. Although the main purpose is the carrying of the work, the activity has also an important social and human aspect that makes our intervention with the families different from a professional one. The commitment also offers important experience and awareness of responsibility. Volunteers are involved in the life of local and national organisations through their participation to the administrative councils.

All applicants must be prepared to commit themselves for at least one year in the fulfilment of the organisation’s objectives and to develop their awareness of :

. working closely with families in need and with organisations involved in community projects
. local and community life
. genuine work as a part of a team outside traditional structures
. a different experience of life

We don‘t ask for preliminary knowledge but offer the volunteers training in different building techniques and specific training related to other activities that they have in charge as social training and summer camp leader training.

The LTV receive a monthly allowance covering accommodation, food expenses and pocket money. The Compagnons Bâtisseurs pays all the costs related to the training, the local or national associative activities … in which volunteers are involved.

We offer each year 1 or 2 places in each team (i. e. 8 places maximum) for European volunteers from September or February for at least one year.

We ask volunteers to be motivated about the association projects and to speak basic French to allow them to communicate rapidly with the families they are going to work with.

Application process send a CV and an application form ( you will find it on the ALLIANCE CD).

Name of the project	Sub-project	Project N°	Place	Dates of the project	Deadline application
Voluntariat à long terme avec les Compagnons Bâtisseurs	Project 1: Voluntariat à long terme avec les Compagnons Bâtisseurs de Bretagne		2 places for EVS- LT	2 Places: Start: 01.09.08 End : 31.08.2009	01/06/08
	Project 2: Voluntariat à long terme avec les Compagnons Bâtisseurs Centre	2007-FR-171	2 places for EVS- LT	Start: 0109.2008 End : 31.08.2009	01/06/08
	Project 3: Voluntariat à long terme avec les Compagnons Bâtisseurs PACA		2 place for EVS- LT	Start: 15.9.2008 End : 31.08.2009	01/06/08

SECRETARIAT INTERNATIONAL Coordination SVE/EVS 39, chemin de Verdun 81100 CASTRES Tel: 05.63.72.59.82 Fax: 05.63.72.59.81 Email: evs.cb.france@wanadoo.fr

EVS/MTV Projects with Compagnons Bâtisseurs Midi-Pyrénées (France)
PROGRAMME 2008/2009

A bit of history: "Compagnons Bâtisseurs (CB)" was born in Belgium fifty years ago; it aimed at helping populations who had been hard hit by the damage of World War II. From the very beginning and still nowadays, "Compagnons Bâtisseurs" has been putting solidarity into practice - by means of workcamps, manual or social projects- as well as promoting peace and better understanding between people from different countries.
Compagnons Bâtisseurs Midi-Pyrénées has been working in Castres since 1984. Our organisation is active in five main sectors:

a) social insertion training projects with 35 people in difficulties
b) hosting of international workcamps with about 150 volunteers in our region and the sending out of around 200 volunteers in up to 30 different countries each year;
c) EVS short term and long term hosting and sending organisation;
d) social work with the local gypsy community in our town, especially animation with the kids
e) Social and manual work with families in difficulties specially on housing problems in a deprived area in the City of Castres

Castres is a city of 48000 habitants in the south-west of France, 1hour from Toulouse.
The economic activities of the city are focused on textile, small-industries and tourism. The region offers a lot of possibilities for excursions (Carcassonne, Albi etc.) and outdoor activities (natural park of the region, 2 hours from Mediterranean Sea and the Pyrénées mountains)

Accommodation: We have two apartments for the volunteers. In one 5-4 volunteers will live together in the new apartment of our association, There are 5 small but individual rooms kitchen, bathroom, a big living room and a garden. The apartment has a telephone which can by used by card (participation of 5 €/month/vol for the telephone) In the second apartment 4-3 people share the space with the same conditions: single rooms, kitchen, living room, and telephone) This apartment is on the 4th. and last floor in a block of social housing in a popular area near the city; 10minutes by feet from the office. Our wish is to have a real international volunteers community but people should be willing and able to share a collective life-style, which can be an incredible experience, but needs a understanding and mutual respect and common rules and duties (of cleaning/cooking etc). The volunteers receive 6€/day as budget for their food.

Local transport: The volunteers can use from time to time a car of the association for excursions or other collective activities , but they have to pay a small contribution to the general costs! We have also some bicycles for local transport.

French course: All volunteers have 2h/week French course, done by a professional teacher.

Duration: Even if EVS is now possible from 2 to 12 month, most of are project are in a complicated and social context that need an engagement of normally 9-12 months to be well integrated, so we don’t accept only volunteers who want to do an EVS Long term of 9-12 month!


PROGRAMME 2008/9
Open projects for the next deadlines

Name of the project	Sub-project	Project N°	Place	Dates of the project	Deadline application
Active solidarity through social and manual projects	Project 3: EVS-Team project : manual work on renovation and construction	2008-FR-1	3 places for EVS- LT (2 boys +1 girl foreseen)	2 Places: 1 Place: Start: 01.07.08 1 Place: Start: 01.08.08 or 01.09.08	01/04/08(for 2 boys)
	Project 2: "Project Tsigane" : work with gypsy-kids in Castres	2008-FR-1	1 place	Start: 1.12.2008	01/06/08 or 01/09/08
	Project 1: “Ateliers de Quartier”: Manual and social work in deprived areas of Castres	2008-FR-1	1 place for EVS- LT	Start: 15.9.2008	01/04/08 or 01/06/08
	Project 5: EVS-Short Term: "Come and Try"	2008-FR-1	4-8Open places EVS- ST in summer workcamps	ONLY FOR YOUTH IN DIFFICULTIES	01/04/2008
CALENDRETA: Animation with children during school time and extra-curricular activities		2006-FR-32	1 place for EVS- LT	Start : 25/08/08	01/04/08
Animation and intercultural activities in a residence for young people (Foyer des Jeunes Travailleurs- FJT)		2005-FR-139	1 place for EVS- LT	Start: 01/09/08	01/04/08 or 01/06/08
NEW: BIJ/ Ludotheque: Sensitization of young people to European mobility and animation of leisure activities with the children"		2008-FR-2	1 place for EVS- LT	FULL till : 01/05/09	01/11/08 or 01/02/09
Assistance in a rest centre with a pedagogical project: MUSIC AND ANIMATION		2005-FR-138	1 place for EVS- LT	Full till: 01.07.2009

PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS

A team of minimum 3 EVS volunteers will help in different renovation and construction projects. The projects are for non profit organizations in the area , municipalities of little villages where we work on the renovation of local patrimony or in the framework of renovation works for people in difficulties. The group of volunteers will also continue the work on our own regional centre of the association of Compagnons Bâtisseurs in Castres.
All projects are based on manual work – mainly masonry and carpentry work. According to the technical knowledge and the time in project, the volunteer will learn to develop from simple to more complicated tasks increasing autonomy and self-confidence. But please consider , the work in the construction and renovation is mainly team-work, where the result is the good co-operation of everybody, and please be aware that this is also physical work! We are not looking for skilled persons, but the volunteers should be ready for this kind of manual work and prepared for outdoor works also in the winter period.
This project offers also very good supports to integrate EVS-Short term volunteers! Volunteers should also be able to work on scaffoldings and in high because we often do also renovation of the roof of houses!

The volunteers will work about 32 hours a week together with a technical animator. (Monday is used for language course in the morning and evaluation meetings or personal affairs. The manual work will be from Tuesday to Friday 8 h/day)

We know that several months in a construction project can sometimes be felt as too hard or too long, so we will give also the opportunity to the volunteers to join other activities of our association. These extra-activities will not replace the main projects of the construction, but we try to offer a bigger field of experience for the volunteers during their stay with us.

e.g. – cooperation in the international summer workcamps in July or August - involvement in other projects run by the organisation (work with families in difficulties, animation with kids from the gypsy community, manual and social work in deprived areas of Castres, gardening around the centre etc.) The idea is to give to chance to join from time to time for a day or 2 also another project in our association, depending on the needs and possibilities of each project to host the volunteer for this short period.

It is important that the volunteers are flexible, with a lot of initiative and willing to adapt to the local reality of our association.
(Each volunteer interested in this project is asked to contact us quite before the application deadline, because the volunteer is invited to come before to see the project and try the concrete work.)

After years of working with the gypsy-kids in very bad conditions our organisation have done a big step forward. Since more then one year we have centre for the animation activities and leisure time activities on the gypsy-camp. This will allow to open a place for an international volunteer who will work with our permanent animator. The volunteer should have experiences in work with kids, specially from a socially difficult background. The work will be hard and very demanding. We need strong personalities and don't expect gypsy-folklore!!

After a introduction-time the person should be able to work independent with the kids. A part of the daily work is to help for the transport of the kids to school and to give help for the school works in the afternoon and to organize the leisure time activities each Wednesday when the kids don’t have school. Good language skills and a driving licence are necessary and a personal car would be very helpful.

The “Foyer de Jeunes Travailleur” (FJT) is a home in the city of Castres that can host up to 54 young people between 17 to 30 years. Some of the youngster are only for some months in the city for doing a job or a trainee , other come from difficult social backgrounds and the FJT offers them a place to live. The volunteer is asked to offer different free time activities to the youngster He will be partly supported by the animators by will also need a lot of autonomy to engage activities with the youngsters by himself only. The volunteer can propose own activities or help to organize the different events (games, excursions, etc); It’s important to have a dynamic and creative person, who is willing to bring new ideas and also “an European dimension” in the house; the person should be easy in contact with the youngsters and able to develop activities by his/her own. The volunteer should have a driving licence and a certain level of French is necessary, because the youngsters often don’t speak English. Since last year the FJT has also some computers for the youngsters and the EVS-volunteer can give some introduction training about (internet, e-mail, word, etc.)etc.). The main work of the volunteer is in the afternoons or evenings, because during the day the people are mostly working outside. The volunteer is living together with the other EVS volunteers in an apartment of Compagnons Bâtisseurs.

Calandreta castresa is an associative school created 11 years ago in Castres. It concerns children from two to eleven years old (kindergarten and primary school). The Calandretas schools are gathered in a federation and confederation in all the Occitanie region (southern part of France). Their purpose is the promotion of the language and culture occitanes by an immersion of the language from the age of two years old. The fundamental courses are taught in occitan and French is set up gradually at the primary school. The occitan is thus teaching and taught language, the language of communication at school and its use favoured in every moment of the school life. Children are also hosted over extra-curricular time (morning, midday, end of afternoon), where game activities are proposed to them. Hosting an EVS volunteer is the project of the school and its work about discovering the world (language, history, geography, art...). The EVS volunteer will belong to the team of teachers and animators and will bring her/his own experiences and her/his savoir-faire(know-how). She/he will be able to prepare workshops, activities, spectacles, meetings, exchanges where she/he will share her/his culture and language and will make the others discover her/his origins.

Occitan skills of the volunteers are not necessary but a goodor at least medium French level would be necessary.

The EVS volunteer will be at the school four days per week from 9 h00 to 18 h00 and will be free on Wednesdays and weekends and also during school holidays (approximately 15 days every 7 weeks). In general all holidays of the volunteer have to be taken during the school holidays. Being an associative school, there will be many demonstrations organized by the parents in order to collect funds (evening theatre, balls, concerts, carnival...) to which the EVS will be invited to take part according to her/his affinities.

For information on possibilities in 2009
Please send don’t applications for these projects now, there will be no selection before 11/2008 for project 2008-FR-2 and in February 2009 for 2005-FR-138 !

"Moulin de Sitelles" is a very nice rest centre situated in a small village near Castres in the south of France. It welcomes groups of kids and youngsters for stages or seminars. All activities with the people turn around music, environment and other arts. Animation with music, playing music or constructing music instruments, playing theatre with the kids etc; They can host up to 80 people for different activities. But is very important to know that the main tasks of the volunteers are NOT linked directly with animation with the kids!!! She/he is much more involved in the general works to keep the centre running and the maintain it as a nice and lovely place for the children. This means very practical works of help to keep the order in the house, small reparations (for example: changing the lights in the rooms, painting doors or windows in case of small damages, decoration works, to take care of the flowers and plants etc).

Other tasks are also:
-to maintain or putting in order the pedagogical materials (instruments, costumes, documents etc.)
-to help to organise workshops for the construction of instruments
-help for the organisation of concerts (mailings, putting chairs or other practical aid during the events)
The centre is also developing different activities to transform the centre in a place of respect of the nature and environment; So different activities are done and need to be supported by the volunteer (selection of trash, measures to save water and energy, creating awareness of the kids for ecology, environment and sustainable development by little actions) Also a garden project might started this spring, so that volunteer could continue this works. Beside this there is also some general help needed for administration or secretary works.

This tasks take the main time of your service, but you are also involved in some activities with the kids for example:
-help for the activities with the kids (excursions)
-to doing little activities or workshops for the kids (for.ex. presentation of one instrument, if you play one, the music of your country or a typical dance etc)
-travel to Paris or other places in France to pick up a group of kids and to travel with them by train to the centre in Burlats

The work is about 6 h a day and mainly in the afternoon (Monday to Friday) Normally the weekend are free, except of some special events (concerts etc); but the project really likes to stimulate the independence and autonomy of each volunteer. So the philosophy is not to impose the exactly daily working hours, but to reach that the volunteer feel the responsibility for his tasks and organize his working hours in order fulfil the different missions given. In this way the project is very flexible and open for your ideas, but they need on the other hand independent people who know to organize themselves and able to take initiatives.

The village is not linked to Castres by local transport, therefore the volunteer needs a valid driving licence to be independent, and also for different activities during the project (participation in the language course in Castres, go shopping or pick up of people for the centre in the City etc.)

ATTENTION: this project is only coordinated by us. The volunteer lives in the project and not with the other volunteers in the apartment in Castres.

The particularity of this new project is the fact that the volunteer will share his voluntary service between 2 associations: The Information youth office(B.I.J.), whose mission is to inform the young people about jobs, leisure activities, trainings, health, local transport and to propose useful services in everyday life (jobs, accommodation, concerts) The voluntary service would take place in the premises of the BIJ situated in the centre of Castres. Le public is of all ages, all status (students, employees, job-seekers)job-seekers). The Ludothèque Castraise, an association that proposes animations around the game and toys and organize a leisure centre on Wednesdays and during school holidays.

The project foresees the presence of the volunteer three afternoons and one morning on the BIJ and the participation on Wednesdays, Thursdays (preparation of meetings) and during school holidays in the Ludothèque. That would mean that the volunteer will work about 30 hours (15 hours on every structure) per week. The coordination between both associations will be made by the association Compagnons Batisseurs which will provide financial and administrative follow-up of the project, will give co-mentorship and will take care of logistic questions (apartment and linguistic training for the EVS). The volunteer will share the apartment with 3 other EVS.

Role of the volunteer at the B.I.J.

The volunteer will participate in the development, in bringing a new dynamics, in the evolution of a little overdrawn sector in the BIJ: that of the documentation and the services associated to Europe.

Activities:
Updating the documentation already existing about Europe.
Contribution to the publication of a departmental guide about the resources in Europe.
Creation of a "pack-Europe" (small collection of documents about Europe given to the young people welcomed at the B.I.J.)
Co-animation of computer workshops about the European mobility.
Participation in the realization of a demonstration with the theme of Europe.
Development of the relationship with local partners to encourage European mobility.

These subjects of actions are propositions which will be offered to the EVS; he/she can privilege some activities according to his/her experience, motivation, his/her wish to develop a technique, a tool or an environment. He/she will evolve within a team of professionals which will bring him/her all the support he/she will need, but which will allow him/her to take initiatives, responsibilities by making his/her personal contribution.

Role of the volunteer at the Ludothèque:
The volunteer will integrate the team of animators of the leisure centre which will develop activities with the kids each Wednesday and during the school holidaysholidays. The EVS will allow the children and the young people to discover and to explore the others way of life, thinking, to open to other cultures, to develop meetings spaces in accordance with the principles of tolerance, laicism and citizenship. The European volunteer will make discover the children of the CLSH the culture of his/her country through manual activities, music, songs, games in link with the team of animation.

Activities:
Reception of parents and children,
Taking into account the wishes of the children,
Animation using games and toys of the Ludothèque,
Organization of the other animations (manual activities, excursions)
Reception of groups and animation with them

This new EVS project will offer very diversified and interesting activities with youth and kids, but need also a very flexible person, able and willing to work with both associations in this double mission: on promotion and sensitization about Europe and in the field of animation with kids. Medium level of French language would be needed….


EVS- SHORT TERM PROJECT WITH
COMPAGNONS BATISSEURS
ONLY FOR DISADVANTAGED YOUTH

Objectives: ACCESS FOR ALL!!
1. To offer a first experience of mobility
2. To give a framework for personnel development and intercultural learning-by working and living in an alternative way within a team of different EVS volunteers, giving them a chance of initiative, creativity, and taking responsibilities in a multinational team
3. Experimentation of a large scale of «concrete» activities in the field of our manual project to stimulate self-confidence, autonomy and give a chance for new positive experiences.

For April deadline:
Specially in July and August we can propose EVS-ST for 3 weeks up 1 month in our international workcamps around Castres and in other regions. In this case the volunteer is part of an international group of 10-15 volunteers from all over the world. The conditions are basic (normally they sleep in tents, self-catering etc.) but this is could be an enormous experience and possibility for intercultural learning for the volunteer.
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General Conditions for application on EVS-Projects (long or short term) with Compagnons Bâtisseurs Midi-Pyrénées:

Please, use our application-forms (plus motivation letter) for your volunteers. If you have your own application forms no problem to send them also. For volunteers willing to join our EVS-ST-project please send all the information’s which could be helpful to identify your volunteer clearly as “Youth with less opportunities”, which is the access condition for joining this project. Please use the A4A-predeaprtaure form for your applications ofn EVS Short term. (also attached to this document)

Our application form for EVS you will find it on the CD.
Please indicate clearly the project (name or number) for which you are applying, or the order of preference. For the project 2008-FR-1 it’s absolutely important to indicate for which sub-project you are applying for!! Some organisations have already sent applications in the last few weeks and also for the last selection round, please confirm which of your volunteers is still interested and specially in which of our projects.

We also want to remind you that we have created more specific mail-boxes for the different activities of our association. PLEASE, all info concerning EVS send to my address : evs.cb.france@wanadoo.fr

Don’t use the mail cb.france@wanadoo.fr for EVS matters and please correct this on your mailing-list!
Best wishes and good co-operation…. and hopefully to see more ALLIANCE-members and partners sending their EVS then in the past to us.

Gerhard Wolf
(EVS Co-ordinator)