Bona Fides Association is looking for Polish participants (aged 18 to 30) for Youth Exchange: “YES – Youth Engagement for Society” set up by the Association Vir’Volt in France! We are also looking for a team leader, without age limit (so can be older than 30)!
Dates: 08 – 22 August 2024
Duration: 2 weeks
Place: Association Vir’Volt in la Ferté Alais in Île-de-France,
Chemin de la sablière, 91590 la Ferté-Alais, France
WHAT’S VIR’VOLT?
It is an association located in the middle of nature. It exists since 1995 and welcomes volunteers from all over the world to share an intercultural experience, to work and live together, to learn to appreciate diversities and to act together to protect the environment.
THE YOUTH EXCHANGE
Are you between 18 and 30 years old and interested in exchanges about activism, political participation and how youth can engage in building a more sustainable, equal society? Don’t wait any longer! Come and take part in our Youth Exchange: YES – Youth Engagement for Society” set up by the association Vir’Volt in France. The Youth Exchange is organized around how young people across Europe are or can be active to create a more sustainable future, fight for human rights and citizenship and stand up against rising far right tendencies:
– Exchanges and workshops on political participation, youth initiatives, citizenship
– Exchanges on how to take interculturality into account in societal issues, fight for more equality and sustainability
– Sharing your experiences, ways of political participation and modes of action
– Helping in a ecological youth project with eco-construction with wood
And all this in a group composed of several young people from other European countries at Vir’Volt!
You will live in a community and will have the opportunity to participate in the organization of the days that will be divided between workcamps carried out all together with the aim of acquiring ecological environmental methods and activities and animation sessions on gender equality, diversity, discrimination, eco-citizen practices, interculturality, etc.
We will also share moments with the citizens of the city as well as information about mobility and different cross border solidarity activities that exist.
In a process of ecological practices, we will use recycled materials to do écological manual construction with wood and work in our permaculture garden.
If all these topics speak to you and you want to participate in an intercultural experience in an environmental context, then apply now!
ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation on the Association’s camping site (individual tents or collective yurt) with participation in collective tasks (cooking, cleaning).
APPLICATION
To apply send your CV and the motivation letter to: mariachiara@bonafides.pl and anna@bonafides.pl.
Please write in the title “Youth Exchange in France”.