About the experience in: Nijmegen, Netherlands
Brazil
Olá! Essa foi minha primeira experiência com voluntariado, fui com meu companheiro. Trabalhava 4 dias por semana, 6 horas. Um breve resumo da minha estadia: Os horarios são bem flexiveis de trabalho, o hostel é bem confortavel, tivemos um quarto privado. porém há alguns problemas: Há camundongos, mesmo Joep lutando para eliminar eles estavam presentes no dia a dia, nos dias de descansos se você ficar no hostel vai trabalhar. Não tem funcionarios, os voluntários são os responsaveis por tudo que acontece, o hostel é desorganizado, o trabalho é pesado e cansativo principalmente final de semana.
over 2 years ago
Hostel replied
Hello Fernanda,
I am sorry to hear you feel this way. I did take some of your feedback on board already, but let me respond to what you said.
We did have some mice, but we also have an extermination company working to eradicate them and prevent them coming back. I am happy to report we have seen no activity from them in the last week.
I do not recognize that you should work outside of your work hours. Howeever, I do think the work was more heavy than anticipated and as we spoke I tried to make it better for the future. So now we do the same amount of work with more people, so it is way less demanding.
About organisation; you got there when we had just opened up so it was hectic for sure. Things are being improved on a daily basis.
Joep