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Norwegian hidden treasure: Rauland volunteer experience.

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The experience

The volunteer undertakes activities such as: serving coffee and baking waffles for guests and locals in our cultural Caffee, organizing activities for the guests, arranging games and quizzes for kids, talking and helping visitors with tips on what to do in the city, handcrafts, bonfire nights, and more – all in the name of cultural exchange and bringing people together.

What you offer

30 hours of help per week

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

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

Teaching Sports: Teaching or assisting the host, guests, or local communities in practicing sports or physical activities.

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.

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!

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

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

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

European Union Passport

Travel insurance

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Our place is well known for its summer courses in traditional and various handcrafts. Participants are very dedicated to their hobbies and spend most of their days working. But at the end of the day, there is time to meet and exchange interests.

At the same time as the courses go on, we want to have a café at Telemarkstunet. Telemarkstunet is a site surrounded by traditional buildings. Many locals and tourists enjoy spending time here as there is an out sale of handcrafts, a perfect playground for children and a relaxing place for parents and grown-ups to relax. The kids have plenty of places to roam!

We would like to have outgoing social volunteers to help us in this mission! That's where you come in!

Activities & Shift

The volunteers are expected to
• make and sell waffels, “lapper”, ice cream, coffee and soft drinks to the visitors
• make arrangements for the kids: for example some outdoor games and competitions
• offer hikings to some of the beautiful outlooks in the surrounding mountain area
• explain visitors how to get to cultural sites ex Skinnarland samlinga – sculptural museum just close by Raulandsakademiet and other important historic places like Vemork and Eidsborg museum including Stavkirke
• arrange and offer trips to the beautiful sand beach Fagersand, a beach by one of the many mountain lakes in the area.
• Talk with guests and guide them on what to do and what to see.
• Mingle with guests and course participants as they have the afternoon coffee
• If weather allows spend time around a camp fire in the evening after dinner

Rules

Please note we can only host volunteers from EU/Schengen (or people holding an EU/Schengen passport).