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Help our sustainable project by cooking for the volunteers!

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The experience

We are a local couple living in Barra de Pacuare in Caribbean coast, between sea, jungle and river.
Our place have a garden, animals, and a small grocery store. We also host.
We are surrounded by volunteering projects (sea turtles, manatees), so we meet international people.
We want to develop on a sustainable way and be part of biodiversity protection.
We have a coconut farm.
March to July is sea turtle season!
We need help for the kitchen.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

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

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

Bartending: Make and serve drinks and help maintain the beverages inventory.

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.

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.

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

Dance classes: Take free dance classes at our place.

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

Requirements

Beginner English or Beginner Spanish

Over 25 years old

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

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We want to develop and improve our place in order to help local economy and tourism on a sustainable way.
We also want to share our culture and love for nature and animals.
We need help with our coconut farm, like gardening or collecting cocos.
We want to help the sea turtle project nearby.
We always have 1 volunteer helper that stay at least 1 month and we organize volunteers work with him.
We need somebody to help cooking for the volunteers.

Activities & Shift

When we have customer visits for the bar, we need to clean tables and bathrooms and help. We can need help for the shop.
Sometimes we have nice parties with local dances.
We have small construction jobs and a coconut farm.
We collect leaves and garbage in the garden and on the road and do beach cleaning.
We have dogs that must be fed and bathed.

Typical day is :
- breackfast at 8
- work from 9 to 12/13h
- have lunch
Most of the time afternoon is free but you could help with the shop sometimes.
So for the cooker get meals ready for each meal, at 8AM, 1PM and 7PM.

During free time volunteers can do a free kayak tour, enjoy the beach, cook, practice Spanish, chill ...
For additional cost, we can offer many tours, sea turtle patrol, boat on the canals to see animals, fishing, tour to Tortuguerro or Parismina, jungle walk, jewelry craft class...

Rules

You have to respect work times.
During your free time let us know where you are and be very carefull with the sea and the jungle.
You always have to respect the others and let the place, dorms and bathroom clean.
Volunteers can enter and leave on Tuesdays and Fridays. Cost is 10 000 colones (20$) for the taxi and 10 000 colones (20$) for the boat one way.
If you are at least two people you can share the taxi price and boat would be 6 000 colones (12$) one way.
You have to take the bus in San Jose to arrive before the night in Batan. The best is a morning bus from San Jose to Siquirres and then to Batan or Gotchen.
We will give you all the information before your arrival.