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A little history
After the First World War, in a spirit of reconciliation and international bringing together, the International Youth Workcamp were born in Europe and France. After the war of 39-45, new associations were created, gathering volunteers of all nationalities around concrete labours and collective utility to contribute to the rebuilding of country and for the European reconciliation.
Today, as the society, the International Youth Workcamp have changed but their values remain : support the meeting and the exchanges between young people,developped an international solidarity, carry out useful projects for the community, to design the building site in a teaching dimension which concerns a popular step of education.
The International Youth Workcamp is a privileged place of meetings between young people of all social origins and very different cultures. Without reference to religious, social or political command, they take part voluntarily in the realization of a work.
The International Youth Workcamp brings to discover the others people. A training of the life the building site allows the training of the citizenship by the catch of responsibility in the collective tasks (work, leisures, meal…).
It gives the possibility of discovering practical activities, techniques and know-how that each one can réapproprier in his personal and professional life; but it is not a place of vocational training.
An International Youth Workcamp is ...
A concrete work.You can arrange a room for young people, a reception centre, restore a monument or an old castle, to mark out paths, to take part in archaeological excavations… the International Youth Workcamp fall under a local dynamics and work for the general interest. Teaching and technical persons in charge ensure the framing on the ground. Sports activities and cultural generally supplement the stays.
A voluntary step: the International Youth Workcamp can develop only with young volunteers. It is very important that the young people themselves choose this kind of holidays and the project on which they will work.
A place for collective life : the International Youth Workcamp is open on the life of a village in link with the local environment. It is the strong time of an associative project. It allows the restoration of a site, the installation of a framework of life, the revalorization of a place and its re-use by its inhabitants within the framework of the local development. The group organizes its stay and its operation. Throughout stay, each one takes part in all the tasks of the everyday life: organization of work, preparation of the meals, management of a budget
And in ELLIANT...
The International Youth Workcamp was held over two weeks from the 16 to July 27 2001.It was the second international youth worcamp site organized by the service youth of the commune of Elliant in partnership with the committee of twinning of Mountbellew (Ireland).
Twenty two young people (11 elliantais and 11 Irish) take part in this camp.The days break up into two parts: work and leisures.
The work was the creation an embankment in Bois Daniel, this area is a protect water zone recently wooded and the second project was the adjustment of a base for children in Keryanic.
(Sorry for the translation, it was realized by an automatic translator)