Project: Montendre is a village of 3000 residents which hosts international volunteer workcamps every year and which serves as the location of the international hosting center of the Poitou-Charentes region: La Maison des Bateleurs. This village is the home of several volunteer associations looking to increase the number of partners they work with. La Maison des Bateleurs also works in this capacity and regularly collaborates with hosting structures for children in difficult social situations, either in terms of their family situations or in terms of physical handicaps. These exchanges are regularly organized along with young people from an IMP (Medical and Pedagogical Institute)--over the course of the workcamp or activity. Work: The project consists of repainting the metal grilles of the surrounding wall of la Maison des Bateleurs as well as those of the neighboring golf course. The golf course and la Maison des Bateleurs regularly participate in exchanges. Volunteers will begin by cleaning, polishing, and then repainting the grilles. Certain grilles will have to be replaced entirely, a task which would require the straitening, cutting, and welding of metal. The iron work will be completed by the volunteers. Leisure activities: It will be possible to organize different excursions and discoveries of the region; to visit Bordeaux, the ocean, and experience local culture and sports, occasionally in activities organized by the young people of an IMP. Accommodation: collective, under tents at la Maison des Bateleurs Situation: Montendre, Charente Maritime, 75 km from the sea between Bordeaux and Angoulme Nearest train station: Montendre Participation fees: 150 for international volunteers and 300 for French volunteers.