Join us and help renovate a former church on the island of Corsica, France

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  Description

  We have a 1500 square meter former convent and church from the 15-18 centuries we have bern renovating with professsionals for 23 years in one of the most beautiful areas of northern Corsica. We need help up-keep, painting and straightforward masonry / carpentry due to water or humidity and ground up-keep - as needed for any such building after a long winter! We do this ourselves now. But bring in professionals for plumbing or electrical when needed. If you are a handy man - to use a drill and hang art or build a small technical room for our natural spring water to be installed by others - as we have an old church we hang art in, then you are our person! Creative, self-sufficient with chores, collaborative, environmentally sensitive, interested à foreign culture and happy around artists or visitors to a landmark building needing care - reach out to us!

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Bénévolat

  Projets artistiques

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison

  Entretien général

  Aide informatique/internet
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  Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  Speaking many languages on an island in the Mediterranean, a mix of Italian and French cultures with a strong local identity. We offer to pay for food, 70 euros a week, which the guest will prepare themselves. No alcohol.
  As a workaway you will be part of a communal effort to restore and protect a former convent, 600 years old, we have been restoring with zero public assistance. Thus, your participation on up-keep, learning how to compensate for a non-insulated or air conditioned building, a zero net carbon aim, will be helpful to open this special place to our local community and learn about historical buildings and techniques for plastering and painting. Experience and working in a self-sufficient manner, using marked up photos on areas to work on, will be an efficient method to work.

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  Aide

  Experienced in each category above. Mostly garden work,drainage and landscape watering and interior building renovation. We speak French, English and Spanish and some Italian. Preferred ages: 24-40. We do not discriminate on race or gender! We need self motivated helpers on general building painting, repairs and up-keep, as well as art installation in our former church. We have used paid professionals for 23 years. Now we need to have a younger group doing help on a historical monument that needs many sorts of repair, plastering, painting or site clearing and landscaping work. All trades - plumbing, masonry, framing or window installatiom, painting are useful.

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  Langues parlées

  Anglais: Courant
  Français: Courant
  Italien: Intermédiaire

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  Hébergement

  Private room and shower/bathroom. Use of shared kitchen. Bicycle. Limited public transportation.
  
  We offer to pay for food, 50 euros of food we will purchase with you in our local market per week. No alcohol included.Non-smoking.

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  Autres infos...

  See Cap Corse hiking directly from the Convent and cultural villages close-by and sea/swimmming 15 minutes away!

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  Informations complémentaires

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    Accès Internet

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    Accès Internet limité

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    Nous avons des animaux

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    Nous sommes fumeurs

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    Familles bienvenues

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  Plenty of space and safe.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Plus de 2

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  Nombre d'heures attendues

  Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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