LUDOTÈQUE CASTRAISE
EVS INFOPACK
1.PROJECT OVERVIEW
2.LA LUDOTÈQUE CASTRAISE
3.BEING A VOLUNTEER IN
LUDOTÈQUE
4.THE ROLE OF THE
VOLUNTEER
5.THE CANDIDATE’S PROFILE
6.ACCOMMODATION AND
LOGISTICS
1.PROJECT OVERVIEW
CASTRES is a medium-sized town (46000
habitants) in the department of Tarn in the South
of France, approximately 1 hour from Toulouse.
What to expect in Castres ?
-Train and bus station
-Airport between Castres and
Mazamet
-Some bars and a nice Irish Pub
-Some small shops and boutiques
-Big cultural offer (theatre,
cinema…)
-Different leisure activities (golf,
horse riding…)
-Lovely parks
-Savoir –vivre of a cosy town in
South of France
-Free busses
What NOT to expect in Castres?
-Huge clubs and big city nightlife
-Shopping malls
-A lot of students
-Busses on Sunday
EVS Tips!
Not far from student city Toulouse , where you can find a lot of bars, clubs,
shops…
In the irish Pub in Castres you can meet a lot of international people from other
countries
Ask the responsible of the association where you will have French lesson , there
are always other people from abroad who are learning French
2.LA LUDOTHÈQUE CASTRAISE
Ludothèque Castraise is situated next to the town centre.
The Ludothèque is a non-profit association (Law 1901),
approved by the Ministry of Sport as an association for
youth education. Its zone of intervention is in Castres but
also in the south of Tarn. As it´s located close to the town
centre, it welcomes mainly children whose parents work
nearby. The public is very heterogeneous and mixed from
different levels of society and nacionalities.
The main objetive
-Allow children and youth
peopleto discover and to
explore other way of life,
thinking, to open other cultures,
to develop meetings spaces in
accordance with the principles
of tolerance, laicism and
citizenship
Other objectives
-Make accessible to all a large
number of games and toys
-To stimulate the sense of
responsability and the inter-age
and the inter-district dialogue
with the game or the toy as the
support of relationships
-To make better known to all,
games and toys of the part as
well as those of nowadays,
those of France and the foreign
countries
3. BEING A VOLUNTEER IN LUDOTÈQUE
Our association, the Ludotèque Castraise, proposes
animation about game and toys and organises a youth
center on Wednesdays and during school holidays. During
school period we offer every evening homework help and
during the day our association is welcoming families and all
public to play games.
The project scheduled the full time presence of the
volunteer, about 35 h a week (2hours for french lessons with
the association Ensemble).
The MJC de Graulhet will do the
coordination and follow the project
through (financial and administrative)
4. THE ROLE OF THE VOLUNTEER
Cité de Jeux
-Reception and animation
of groups
-To develop the service
game on the spot and loan
of Maintenance
-To repair and organnise
games and toys
-To spread information on
the web(blog, facebook)
-Helping children to do
their homework
-Meetings wit the super
visory staff
The European volunteer will make the
children of the center (CLSH) discover the
culture of his or her country through manual
activities, music, songs and games in link with
the animation team.
We want to develop an European
conciousness and active citizenship towards
by the pratice of concrete leisure activities;
that’s why we think it’s important to host and
EVS.
He will have to animate and put European
dynamics into the “Cité du Jeux” (loan of
game, and game of the spot) by suggesting
new activities, to advise the public and the
broadcast information on the net
Centre de Loisirs
-Reception of parents and
children
-Taking into account the
wishes of the children
-Organisation and planning
of activities for the kids
-Animation using games
and toys of the Ludotèque
-Being with the children
during excursions,
management of thr groups
of children animation
outside
5. THE CANDIDATES PROFILE
No special qualifications are needed to participate in the
different activities of our project:
The recruitment will be made in cooperation with the coordinating
organization MJC de Graulhet,who will be the contact point on the data
basis. The MJC de Graulhet will use its partners network to inform them
about this project and will treat the applications.
All the candidates are asked to send complete application forms and
motivation letter
The future volunteer have the possibility to contact directly our
volunteer who is during his EVS at the moment in our association
to have more information
6. ACCOMMODATION AND
LOGISTICS
Accommodation
Our volunteers are sharing a flat with
another volunteers .The flat is located
near the city and the work place.It’s
composed of three single rooms ,
kitchen and a living room and fully
equipped
-bed sheets andblankets
-towels
-washing maching
-oven,microwave…
Organization of the
working time:
Working from Monday to
Friday. The planning will be
different in accordance with
the periods of the year .
During school holidays the
volunteer will do more than
35h a week and during
school period less than 35h.
The volunteers have 2 weeks
of holidays in the end of
December and 3 weeks in
August.