ECO-VOLUNTEERING MISSION PROJECT CODE

ECO-VOLUNTEERING MISSION
PROJECT CODE:TN002
Discovery tour of Chenini Oasis - Gabes 1
Call for participant
From: 1 August 2015 – to: 30 October 2015 | num of vols: 2| age:18 – 30
Language: Arabic, English or French
Accommodation: residence house
Location: Chenini – Gabes - Tunisia
Nearest terminal: Djerba-Zarzis airport
Special Remarks: bring comfortable clothes for long walking. Volunteers from EU countries need a passport with
at least three months of validity.
PROJECT AND WORK
HOSTING ORGANISATION: ASOC - Association de sauvegarde de l’oasis de Chenini-Gabes
ASOC born in 1995 and aims to implement projects linked to
environment, education and sustainable development. As of
today, ASOC is in charge of a composting station, a project
linked to local seeds and a biodiversity garden. ASOC employs 9
people: 3 project coordinators, 2 co-coordinators, an
accountant, 4 semiskilled workers and a volunteer in the frame
of RADDO.
https://www.facebook.com/AssociationDeSauvegardeDeLOasis
DeCheniniGabesasoc?ref=hl
WORK
The eco-volunteering missions will focus on the campus that
will be held this summer in Chenini, called “Discovery tours of
Chenini Oasis - Gabes” (“Circuits de découvertes de Chenini”).
Working hours will be from 8h30 to 13h and from 15h to 17h,
from Monday to Thursday and from 8h30 to 13h on Friday and
Saturday. The work to be done by the volunteer will be full of
discoveries and rich of contacts with the local population.
Volunteers will be in charge of the following activities:
- Pedestrian tour;
- “Two wheels” tour;
- Heritage tour;
- Gastronomy tour (possibility to participate in cooking
workshops at locals' homes) ;
- Cultural Tour (music, traditional clothing, handcraft,
litterature…);
- B&B tour (identify interested people and families)
- Health tour at Ras el Oued;
- Agricultural tour (descriptive of biodiversity garden
plants and trees), valorisation and transformation of
local products;
- Choose and define places where people can eat, drink
and ecological resting areas at Ras el Oued
- Creation of a logo “product of the Oasis”;
- Identify ideas for youth workcamps about the
rehabilitation of Ras el Oued;
- Identify flora and fauna of Ras el Oued;
- Start the recycling and reusing of material in order to
build pieces of furniture and interior decoration;
- Valorising the work of the carpenter of Chenini by
realising a leaflet with short, medium and long term
trainings.
Moreover the volunteer will take part to the campus organized
in the frame of the ILE project.
At the end of their missions, the eco-volunteers will start the
realisation of:
A cartography including all the circuits and interesting places of
the Chenini oasis; An address book (male and female artisans);
An on-line TV called “Cheni-Chenini”; An annual agenda of the
events in Chenini; A zoning of the oasis (the different varieties
that you can find there...); A leaflet about ecovolunteering; A
leaflet about the green jobs in the oasis; A database about the
Projects End of Study, realised and to be realised in the oasis;
Communication and promotional documents about Chenini; An
Internet website for the promotion of the ecotourism circuits.
The eco-volunteers will also take part in the preparation of the
Gabes' workshop in June and of the campus in August.
Competencies
The volunteers should preferably have some of the following
competences:
- New technologies skills
- Knowledge in land development
- Knowledge in valorisation of the local products
- Skills design
- Writing in French (English recommended)
- Knowledge of the ecotourism
- Knowledge in agriculture is recommended
Language
working languages will be Arabic, English and French.
Knowledge of French and at least English is recommended.
LOCATION
The project will be implemented in Chenini where the ASOC
has its headquarter. Volunteers work will take place in the
association’s office and at the Chenini Oasis. The volunteers
will be hosted in a Residence house in Chenini.
Chenini
Chenini (Arabic:
‫ ) ـــــــ‬is a ruined Berber village in the
Tataouine district in southern Tunisia. Located on a hilltop
near a modern village of the same name, Chenini was a
fortified granary, or ksar (plural ksour.) Like other ksour
created by North African Berber communities, Chenini was
built on a hilltop - in this instance, between two hilltop ridges
- to help protect it from raiding parties. The oldest structures
on the hillside date back to the 12th century; some of the
buildings are still used to store grain for the villagers living in
the valley below. Chenini is a regular stop on southern
Tunisia's ksar trail, along with the villages of Douiret, Ksar
Ouled Soltane and Ksar Hadada.
Chenini and the surrounding Tataouine district are also
associated with the Star Wars film series. Many scenes for
the movies were filmed in the area; one of the moons of the
home planet of Luke Skywalker was named Chenini.
WHAT TO BRING
As several trips are foreseen, the volunteers should bring comfortable clothes for long walking. The weather
between March and June is characterised by two main seasons, one of them cold, with temperatures going up from
April on. It is recommended to bring a camera to keep memories and do not forget the good moments in Chenini!
(The beach is not far)
TRAVEL INFORMATION
The nearest terminal to get Chenini is Djerba-Zarzis airport. There are 5 airlines connecting the Tunisian airports:
http://www.airefrance.com
http://www.transavia.com/hv/fr-fr/accueil
http://www.tunisair.com.tn
http://www.flysyphax.com
http://www.nouvelair.com/fr
For more information about the Djerba-Zarzis airport, please visit:
http://www.aeroport-de-djerba-zarzis.com
MEETING POINT
The volunteers will be welcomed at their way out from the ferry boat in the city of AJIM (DJERBA). The volunteers
have to take a taxi at the airport to reach the ferry boat. The crossing is for free for foot passengers.
USEFUL CONTACTS
Local coordinator: Mr Abdelkader Meftah Tel: 0021699096980
Emergency contact: Mr Elys BenAoun (president de l’ASOC) Tel: 0021699096630