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Help at a vegan household at the Azores Islands, Portugal

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The experience

Short summery:
- Accommodation with vegan kitchen for
- 3h/day, 5 days/week of physical work
(please read the whole profile before you contact me)

What you offer

3 hours of help per day

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

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

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

What you get

2 days off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Team Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other people.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

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

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

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English or Intermediate German

Between 22 and 50 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Usually you will work Monday to Friday from 10am to 1pm , so you have the afternoons and weekend free. If the weather is nice, we start sometimes also at 9am, mainly in the summer.

As I am not a local, I can't offer you a Portuguese, cultural exchange by my self. But there will be other Volunteers, friends, visitors or even family around from all over the world, to get a width cultural exchange anyway.

About learning, it depends a lot, how long you will stay and how fast you learn, if you stay only 3 weeks, maybe you learn just how to hold a shovel or use a brush. If you stay longer, there a for sure more opportunities. Beside of that, you can ask me out about a lot of topics like Veganism or Off-Grid living.

About socializing:
Usually I host only 4 Volunteers at the same time, but have also friends, family and guest around with you can hung up, In total I have space for 15 ppl.

Activities & Shift

I moved in April 2022 in a house which was empty for some years. So I need help with renovation task, building furniture and mostly create a big garden. There is also a big barn/hall I would like to convert in something useful.

Things to be done:
- plastering
- painting
- digging (a lot)
- planting trees
- create a garden and terraces (=digging)
- help in the ready part garden
- cleaning (floors, windows, dishes, laundry... it's a big house)
- building furniture
- building a pool/sauna

I recommend to bring your own working gloves and good boots are also a good idea. Please be aware, that you can get very dirty and that you have to work sometimes outside even when it rains.

Rules

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PXCX_SGh2iyYPZUEiPgqupDXucWKsWc9GLu8awOsSzY/edit#