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Seedling Nursery and permaculture farm attendant

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The experience

The volunteers will be part of a local team of volunteers working to collect seeds, preserve seeds, propagate seeds, transplant seedlings into small potting bags, water them daily until they are ready to plant in the local schools and community,also the volunteer will help with work in the farm by watering , harvesting weeding, soil building among st other routine maintenance practices.
The works shall involve photography as well as learning.

What you offer

20 hours of help per week

Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.

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

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

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.

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

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

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

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.

Requirements

Beginner English

Between 18 and 60 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Each morning from 8.15 am, the volunteers join the bigger team of volunteers who are working in different parts of the conservation project and the team leader assigns work for the whole week for each pair of three or four depending on the magnitude of the tasks.In between we have water breaks at 10.30 am to 11.00 am until 1 pm when we have a lunch break until the next day.During sunny days we maybe forced to work less or have tasks like seed preparation under shades since the sun becomes to harsh for work.During the work, the local volunteers offer guidance on the steps and helps the volunteers to over come the challenges that they may come across .It is always fun as this is also the time to learn about the local cultures plants, beliefs . Since we work with alot of fun. .Working with young plants and nature is not tiring since it is refreshing and naturally therapeutic.

Activities & Shift

This work involves watering, seed collection,preparing soil, potting the good soil in small pots for planting, transplanting , arranging the plants in the nursery and distributing the plants to the community and visiting the local schools and community to check if they were planting and progressing well.Volunteers will also maintain our permaculture farm, weeding, planting, harvesting watering and other routine maintain practices shall be the main tasks.

Rules

Wearing protective shoes, gloves while at work.Minding your language, no racism, handling the team members with respect .Above all common sence and flexibility and adaptability becomes our cardinal rule.