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Join our family and help with daily life in beautiful Victoria!

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The experience

1. General household: cleaning, organization, general maintenance
2. Kitchen: snack preparation, cooking meals, helping keep the kitchen tidy, organized, and clean
3. Children: (examples of activities previous volunteers have done) reading books, playing sports, baking, arts & crafts, piano practice, teaching yoga, playing board games, helping engage our toddler in play, going for walks in the forest
4. Gardening: weeding, raking leaves, watering

What you offer

5 hours of help per day

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

Cooking: Choose the menu, pick ingredients and cook delicious dishes.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Child Care: Caring for, playing with, and spending time with children.

What you get

2 days off per week

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

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

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

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

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

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.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

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

Dedicated Workspace: Specific space for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English

Between 18 and 70 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

At this time we can't host solo male travelers. We are looking for volunteers who are responsible, self-motivated, and (most importantly) who also enjoy being part of a family ❤️

Activities & Shift

As homeschoolers, we love when volunteers have introduced our children to their own personal hobbies and passions such as watercolour painting, piano, yoga, baking, soccer, sketching, nature exploration, creating stories - the list goes on and on ☺️

Rules

*Please note the use of cell phones needs to be limited during your volunteering hours. We try to be mindful of screen usage and appreciate volunteers not spending most of their time on social media in front of our children. This kind of volunteer will not be a suitable match for our family*

*If you have dietary restrictions (eg. gluten-free) OR have specific preferences for certain foods/drinks, we will only purchase items that the entire family also consumes. We prefer not to contribute to more worldwide food wastage.

*Please note as we do not smoke, consume alcohol or eat pork, we kindly ask volunteers to respect our wishes and also not consume these items in the house*

*We do not permit friends of volunteers to stay overnight and are unable to lend out our car due to strict car insurance rules in BC.*