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Availability:
- from March 2024 until early November 2024
- from March 2025 until early November 2025
Availability from now 2024, 4 weeks minimum, until early November (before it gets cold!). Available again after the winter from March 2025.
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We are a Provence family from the village of Roquebrune sur Argens (Var). André Abbe, journalist and photographer, now retired, was born in the family house you’ll stay in, in Roquebrune-sur-Argens. Thanks to 50 years of career, André had the opportunity to travel internationally, and capture moments of life in France, Europe, Asia, South America, but also in Oceania. You’ll meet André, François (his son who’s running the Charity) and many local people (the neighbors are particularly nice).
More about the project:
From 1970 to 2000, André has taken more than 100,000 photos of his travels, Provence and more particularly, his hometown, Roquebrune, and its surroundings. These pictures are the result of a passion and a photographic heritage that he wishes to revive through a non-profit making organization: Abbe Photo.
Our charity Abbe Photo has one main goal: to give life again to rare and unknown archives to the general public. And this is your mission!
After 3 exhibitions and 3 books, we now are celebrating Abbe Photo 3rd anniversary and Passadoc 10th anniversary. The even date is on Friday 23rd August 2023.
You will stay in Maison Abbe in Roquebrune, which has been in the family for 4 generations. This 16th century house has four floors. On the ground floor, there is a self-contained apartment with its own entrance. It is fully equipped with a bedroom with a double bed (160cm, new mattress), small living room, kitchen area and bathroom. It is your private space!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Art Projects
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Live the Provence lifestyle in the heart of a millennial village, 15 minutes to the sea, minutes to the forest, mountain and lake. Learn about us, traditions, lifestyle…
Learn about Provence from a family in the region for centuries...
Help
Our nonprofit has 2 goals:
- Save an archive with 100,000 pictures
- Improve the brand-awareness so that people better know our pictures, our nonprofit, André Abbe, etc. At this time, we are focusing our communication on Germany, Great Britain and North America.
You mission is to help with the brand awareness. You will help to run Abbe Photo communication, mainly with its social media accounts launched in April 2024: ask us for our social links
This is a mission for one or two people (couple or friends) to prepare online content. You will choose archive pictures then write text for stories and posts, and storyboards for reels and short videos. You will work in English or in French to go along with our archive pictures. You will work remotely (Whatsapp, email, Zoom...) with a team of 3 people.
This means 20 hours a week needed from each of you. You decide on your schedule. The main thing is to deliver the contents every week and ensure we regularly sync up. This means you can make plans to visit Provence, Côte d’Azur (French Riviera) and the Southern Alpes!
This can be done from your cellphone or tablet from anywhere!
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Occitan: Fluent
Spanish: Beginner
Portuguese: Beginner
Accommodation
You will stay in your own apartment in our family home in the historical pedestrian center of the Provence village of Roquebrune sur Argens. This 16th century house has a self-contained apartment on the ground floor with a living room, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom, with a double bed. You will have your own room and food. The house has reliable fast ADSL internet connection (Wifi and Ethernet).
What else ...
Looking for either an individual or 2 people (friends or couple).
100 euros per week (or 150 euros if you are a couple) for your food allowance, you cook for yourself as you have your own accommodation (the owner François lives hours away with his family and stays on some occasions in his own bedroom). This allowance is for food only, but can include the monthly bus pass (about 30€) useful to move about. Official receipts are needed!
Located 10kms from the sea, Roquebrune is situated between Cannes, Nice and Aix en Provence, Marseille. There is a 7-day a week bus service running to the nearest city: Saint Raphaël - Fréjus.
The nearest train stations are Saint Raphaël Valescure (direct bus) and Les Arcs Draguignan.
The nearest airport is Nice (bus from Saint Raphaël station).
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
The house has reliable fast ADSL internet connection (Wifi and Ethernet).
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Maximum 5 hours a day per helper, 4 days a week
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