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The College Cevenol is located in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small town west of Lyon, in the Massif Central region of France. A multicultural, internationalist boarding school, the College Cevenol also serves as a center for refugee families from around the globe.

Each summer for the past 63 years the AFCC has run a work-study program at Le College Cevenol. For half the day (Monday-Friday ), students work on service-learning projects - i.e., repairing roads, painting walls, fixing up sports facilities, beautifying the campus, etc. The second half of the day is devoted to educational activities - i.e., learning French, studying cuisine, interacting with local villagers, and developing friendships with asylum-seeking families (from Ghana, Kosovo, Armenia, Albania, and Chechnya) who live in the village. Each day work campers experience a special aspect of the French culture. Weekends are devoted to field trips; in 2005 & 2008 students visited St. Etienne to watch the Tour de France. In both 2006 and 2007 students hiked to the apex of an ancient volcano and visited the historic city of Le Puy. The work, refugee friendships and field trips make for the summer of a lifetime.