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Cooking with love in the Nature Centre of North Borneo🏝️🥣🍵☕🍽️

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The experience

Join our kitchen team and bring the magic of love to every dish! As a kitchen assistant, you'll infuse each meal with passion and creativity, turning ingredients into culinary masterpieces. From sizzling stir-fries to decadent desserts, your enthusiasm will shine through in every bite. Come cook up some joy with us – it's not just food, it's a delicious adventure!

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

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

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

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 30 Per day

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers, Materials for volunteer activities, and Donation to project

Description: Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers, Materials for volunteer activities, & Donation to ongoing project. Volunteer contribute $30 per day to cover expenses for daily meals, repair & maintenance, support our daily operational cost to sustain our conservation project - coral restoration and wildlife protection, and little bit funding our conservation centre.

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.

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.

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 Drinks: Get discounts for drinks and beverages from our bar.

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

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

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

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

Requirements

Fluent English

Between 21 and 45 years old

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

Be from outside Malaysia

Travel insurance

Mandatory volunteer introduction video

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Only focus on helping in the kitchen. You still can get lost with nature when kitchen is not so busy.

Activities & Shift

Helping to prepare ingredient for chef to cook. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. In between may need to prepare or set table for coffee break. cleaning and up keep kitchen/nature cafe after each meal.

Rules

Strictly no smoking kitchen assistant.
Follow crew meal time.
Our kitchen have limited ingredients with pre-set menu by Chef MON, so volunteer not allow to cook as they wish.
Follow daily menu to prepare ingredients.
Help to monitor grocery stock.
Help to do shopping when needed.
We practice No food waste.
Kitchen waste must be separated - organic and non organic.
No one get hungry.
Ensure all crew had their meals.
Kitchen must be close/locked at 9:00am