WHERE?
FLORENVILLE, Floreffe’s Abbey, in the Walloon Region, Belgium
Premonstratensian monastery, the second of the order to be founded, situated on the Sambre at Floreffe, about 11 km southwest of Namur, Belgium.
THIS PROJECT…
Z! Association, organizer of the music festival Esperanzah, aims at designing and organizing remarkable sites, events or cultural and social activities.
ACTIVITIES…
Volunteers will be responsible for the cleaning of the festival site. They will collect waste so visitors can attend concerts in a welcoming and safe site. They will also be assigned to physical tasks. They will have to make festival-goers aware of the protection of the environment. Volunteers will work from 9am to midday and from 1pm to 5pm. Your job is to keep the area clean and tidy. During the festival (3-5 August), the volunteers are free to enjoy the festival!
TO THE POINT…
- Dates: July 29 to Augustus 09.
- Type: music festival
- Max volunteers: 10 volunteers / Volunteers must be at least 18 years old when the project starts.
- Accommodation: Volunteers will be accommodated in a dormitory. Kitchen, shower and toilet will be available but they will share it with another group of volunteers (from SCI). There will be no washing machine. You will be asked to bring a mattress and a sleeping bag. Do not forget to bring working clothes as it can be rainy from time to time.
- Working language: Able to communicate in French or English
TO KNOW…
- Food: Three meals are provided each day for volunteers. Vegetarian volunteers will receive special meals.
- Clothing: Boots or hiking shoes (you might not want to take nice shoes because you might get VERY dirty). Do not forget, everything will take place outside. Work clothes (for the construction work), and comfortable clothes (for the festival). Summer clothes AND winter clothes because it can get warm or cold! Volunteers need to bring clothes that dry fast because if you get wet, you might have to change clothes several times a day. If you think about bringing clothes that dry fast, you will not end up with only wet clothes left.
- Pssssst: Interest for the environment justified + flexible and available during the entire festival ;-)!