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Help Build a Desert Oasis & Live the Kasbah Dream

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The experience

Join us in the heart of the Tagounite desert, where we’re transforming an ancient space into a living, breathing oasis of culture and community. This is more than a project—it’s a journey of restoration, creativity, and connection.

You’ll help with artistic design, building, and day-to-day tasks, all while immersed in Amazigh hospitality and the rhythm of the Sahara. Come co-create something timeless.

What you offer

15 hours of help per week

Photography: Take, edit and provide amazing photos.

Video Making: Create, edit and publish digital videos.

Party Promoter: Help organise and promote parties and social activities.

Social Media: Maintain and update social media channels.

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 7 Per day

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers

Description: To ensure we provide you with a comfortable experience, we ask for a small contribution of $7 per day. This helps cover meals, drinking water, electricity, and Wi-Fi, as these essentials are quite limited here in the desert. It’s not just about covering costs it’s about creating a shared experience where everyone helps sustain the magic of this remote place. Thank you for understanding!

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.

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

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

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

Discounts on Parties: Get discounts at nearby parties and clubs.

Discounts on Restaurants: Get discounts at nearby restaurants.

Discounts on Tours: Get discounts for tours and excursions around town.

Discounts on Accommodation: Get discounts for your stay in other hostels.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

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

Free Parties: Get free entrance for the best parties in town.

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

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

Yoga classes: Take free yoga classes at our place.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

Permaculture Course: Take part in our Permaculture course for free.

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

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Fluent English or Fluent Arabic

Between 18 and 80 years old

Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)

European Union Passport

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

🌴The farm

Zaid, the CEO, and Mohamed’s dad have the goal of making the farm and the Kasbah a “gathering place” for meaningful interactions. The project is about creating connectedness and blurring the boundaries – with both locals and guests.
For us, simplicity is our ultimate luxury, the simple life, the desert life.

The farm is located 7kms away from Tagounite city center. We grow pam trees 🌴, orange trees🍊, corn🌽, but also green peas and pomegranates.
We have a small Berber building (made out of mud) with one room that we want to transform into a guest house with authentic Berber furniture.

Our goal is to welcome guests into the farm to create a community where we can all participate to grow vegetables and fruits.

Activities & Shift

The house and garden

I currently live in a house in Tagounite with a friend which has a nice and peaceful garden, as well as a rooftop we are currently renovating.

Our goal is to make this house as homely as possible and we are more than happy to get your suggestions or to welcome artists who want to have their own projects in the house or garden.
We of course have already some plans that you can help with, and since you'll be living here with us, you can help us with the day-to-day maintenance too.
We'd love to teach you how to take care of the garden, and how to cook traditional Moroccan dishes like Siemens, tajine, and Berber pizzas.

🏠Repair the mud wall from the outside with traditional mud bricks
🏠Remove the mud from the rooftop to make it a great living area (by the way we like sleeping on the roof sometimes, it's amazing!!)
🏠Take care of the garden: water, plant, harvest. W

Rules

We are only at the beginning of our journey, which means that we have a lot of ideas and projects but we first require to set ourselves up properly.
We are currently planning the jobs and tasks that we need to undertake to unblock ourselves and get going, so any help in project management, planning and organization is welcome :-).

The tasks we are currently undertaking:
🙋 Help setting us properly to welcome workaways (house rules, definition of project, daily timetable...)
🔨Removing the sand and mud layer on the roof
🔨Fix the outside wall using traditional Berber construction methods with mud
🏠General house maintenance (cleaning, ordering...)
🎨We want to do some decorative paintings on our walls and would love it if you want to undertake a creative project
🌱Our house garden has some coriander, corn, cotton, palm trees and pomegranate that we take care of and we want to plant some