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Stay at our eco-village and learn how to build a tiny house!

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The experience

Do you have experience with building with wood or other materials?

We are an open-minded, experimental community in the heart of the Netherlands, and we are open for volunteers that would like to have some freedom in building and helping maintaining our eco-village facilities.

We are a group of 13 people, living in trailers and tiny houses, and while you stay here you can also sleep in one of them. Come have this experience with us.

What you offer

24 hours of help per week

Arts: Help with painting, graffiti, sculpting or drawing.

Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

What you get

3 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Yoga classes: Take free yoga classes at our place.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

Holistic Therapies: You can take part in any of our therapeutic activities for free.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Requirements

Intermediate English or Beginner Dutch

Between 20 and 55 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Volunteering here is a great opportunity to grow your skills and autonomy. The work is mainly physical work, including painting, maintenance work, building, cooking, cleaning, planting and gardening, and we let the volunteer do whatever improvement or project he/she/they feel like doing, as long as we believe it is beneficial to the community.

We are going to be building a tiny house together this season (2025)!

We also have some work we ask directly to the volunteer, and we usually guide them and provide instructions and materials, but then the volunteer is expected to work independently and autonomously. It is usually 4 days a week of work, and 3 days of free time/days off. We offer collective meals together, an equipped kitchen with food supplies and the volunteer can feel free to make use of it at any time.

Activities & Shift

This is pretty flexible. The work is mainly physical work, including painting, maintenance work, building, cooking, cleaning, improvements in general, art work, planting and gardening.

Rules

Our place has a lot of space for experimentation and to explore self-creation, and for the majority of people that's very exciting and intriguing.We do not give too many instructions or guidance, just a little bit. And we hope the volunteer take initiative and do things by themselves.