What is an Emmaus solidarity workcamp ?

• A commitment
  With other young people coming from all over the world, you will help people who are hosted, who work or who volunteer in Emmaus. Thanks to that volunteer work, you will fight with Emmaus against poverty and exclusion in France and abroad.
• Meeting new people
  You will also be able to meet and chat with them during trips and activites that would be organized: visiting the area, sport, concerts, picnics, etc. You’ll meet people you’ll maybe never meet somewhere else.
• A discovery
  You will discover a whole world : Emmaus’world, a world of solidarity. This experience will enable you to understand how Emmaus works, how the association helps people, its history, its struggles. It will also be an alternative experience :, living within a community.

And concretely, how is it working ?

• When ?
  At least one week between June the 15th to September the 15th
• Accommodation
  In a tent, a mobil-home or a collective room, Emmaüs provides you a bed!
• Meals
  You will share meals offered with the people hosted in Emmaus, the volunteers, workers, and youth from the solidarity work camp
• Travel
  You’re in charge of booking it and paying

• Collecting
  You’ll help people to collect donations in the Emmaus structure or throughout the region.
• Sorting
  You’ll sort donations (books, clothes, furniture…). They can be sold, recycled…
• Selling
  You’ll work in the Emmaus shops : puting the donations on the shelves, helping customers or being the cashier.
• Projets
  You’ll be involved in projects such as preparing and distributing meals to migrants, gardening, customising objects, decorating buildings …