GRIMM

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Work:

This year, the volunteers will build facilities for cyclists and cycle tourists passing through the town of Marche-en-Famenne. They will build two wooden shelters and three picnic tables, along the cycle path near the cultural center. They will also set up several bicycle racks.
The volunteers will also carry out the maintenance of a diversion channel near a village in the municipality. This channel collects runoff water, thus preventing flooding of houses and land below. However, it is currently clogged with branches and dead leaves and is therefore no longer functioning properly.

If you work quickly, other small outdoor manual tasks will be planned.

Volunteers will work in several teams, each lead by one member of GRIMM.

If you enjoy working with wood, screws, and tools, this is the project for you!

Accomodation and food

The volunteers will stay in “Saint-François complex”, in a corridor with double bedrooms. Toilets and showers are on the same floor, the kitchen and a large living area (a former chapel) a few floors below. Volunteers will do their own shopping and prepare their own meals.

Location and leisure

Marche-en-Famenne is a small town in the countryside located in the south of the country. You can find everything there: schools, shops, industries, services... The town is surrounded by several industrial estates, but also by woods, fields and small villages where the pace of life remains rural. Liège, Namur and Luxembourg are easily accessible by train in about an hour, Brussels in two. It is also a good base camp to discover the natural heritage of the Ardenne region and to practice outdoor activities.

But participating to the “GRIMM workcamp” also means experiencing traditions that are maintained year after year: your stay will be punctuated by a welcome BBQ on the first day, a farewell BBQ on the last day, and, above all, your participation in the local festivities on August 15th. On August 15, Marche-en-Famenne indeed takes a leap back a century for a large “1900 market”, with old trades, old games, crafts and birds.

Project hosted by

GRIMM (standing for: Groupe d’Intérêt pour le Milieu Marchois – or: interest group for the environment of Marche, in English), is a local non-profit organization whose goal is to promote and preserve the living environment of the inhabitants of the municipality of Marche-en-Famenne by drawing inspiration from the principles of sustainable development. It works in collaboration with the municipality’s environmental department.

For example, it takes care of securing sections of road for amphibians to cross during their annual migration. Each year, GRIMM also hosts a group of international volunteers to carry out small public utility improvements together (for example: building benches and picnic tables, footbridges, etc. on a local promenade) and renovating those from previous years.

Directions to meeting point

Saturday the 8th of August at the train station of Marche-en-Famenne at 3.40pm.

Find your route on : www.belgiantrain.be

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