VSF Camp 2 – Age 6/12
« Séjour Nature et Découverte »
Immersion Ratio (per group): 20 French campers / 3 Foreign campers
DDates
JULY 8 – 17, 2024
JULY 8 – 27, 2024
T Camp Tuition
10 DAYS: 2660 €
20 DAYS: 3530 €
Camp Theme
An ecological adventure in South Aveyron.
Through eco-construction activities, DIY (Do-IT-Yourself activities) around renewable energies, discovery of the environment, gardening and cooking, children will become familiar with the notions of biodiversity and sustainable development.
Activities
Workshops of the Eco-Citizens of the Hamlet of Moulès
Eco-construction and DO-IT-YOURSELF:
Constructions of huts in the forest surrounding the village. The children will discover the pleasure in building their « refuge », a space which belongs to them …
Renewable Energy Workshops: Here campers will build a mini wind power plant or an installation using solar energy to produce lighting for their huts!
Eco-participation: Participation in the maintenance of a hiking trail, creation of a pond (digging, creating water supply, plant settlements…).
Gardening:
Sowing, transplanting, digging, weeding cabbages, lettuce, tomatoes, radishes, carrots, leeks …
Creation of a compost silo, recovery of ashes from the bread oven and spreading at the base of the vegetables, mulching of the soil to retain moisture, recovery of rainwater…
Organic cooking:
In the bread oven and in the educational kitchen of the center…
- Preparing Salads with zucchini flowers and fruits, carrot soup, eggplant caviar…
- Making Jams (with local strawberries, plums, cherries), strawberry milk or raspberry syrup, delicious!
- Making and baking bread, tarts and organic pizza in the old communal bread oven of the village,
- Preparation and organization of an organic banquet for all the other children in the village.
Discovery of the Fauna and Flora :
Nature by itself is a tremendous encyclopedia. An open book in which the children will learn to read the local flora and fauna under the supervision of specialized counselors.
While hiking the children will learn how to recognize footprints from different animals, discover their feeding places and hide-outs… They will observe nature, get to know the forest with all it’s plants, trees, and many flowers (such as wild orchids, very famous in the region).
Other activities
– Canoe on the Tarn river:
A descent of the Tarn river in a canoe will familiarize you with the current: small rapids, green landscapes, discovery of the local fauna and flora and of course swimming in the river!
– Initiation in Rock climbing
– Swimming pool on site at the center.
Choice of Field Trips
– Visit to the Botanical garden
– Storytelling, star gazing …
I had a great time in France this summer, I will definitely come back and recommend this to my all friends in California. The camp counselors were great and I made many friends, I will always remember them. Most of all I mproved my French a lot. My best memories will be : the great field trips, the dance parties, the French people and all the great villages I visited but most of all the friends, counselors and people who were there with me. I wish I never had to leave the camp what else can I say? »Camp is great and I definitely want to come back!! »
Camp Location: « LE HAMEAU DE MOULÈS »
FONDAMENTE is a small village in the Aveyron department in southern France.
Accommodation: Children and Counselors sleep in bungalow tents (5 to 6 beds) on cement floors, with lights, beds and closets. Tents and shower facilities are located in the woods at the border of the village, in the shade!
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TRANPORTATION: With the VSF group (and the French children) by TGV train from Paris to Montpellier (escorted by the camp staff) – transfer by shuttle bus to the camp site.
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