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Are you brave enough? Come to visit our cacao farm in Colombia!

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The experience

Enjoy our nature, where you can find peace, chocolate and nature sounds, around of rivers, mountains, where you can appreciate the Colombian Andes with a vegetation like in the Amazons, with huge trees complete green all year, every year, surrounded of birds with many colors and a lot of wild animales (of course, no dangerous). This area is famous in Colombia for our cocoa beans, used for chocolate makers to make the most delicious chocolates.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Photography: Take, edit and provide amazing photos.

Teaching Languages: Teaching a language to the host, guests, or local communities.

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

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 10 Per day

Fee pays for: Donation to project

Description: Volunteers contribute USD 15 per day to cover expenses for food and the ecolodge maintenance and the binoculars for birdwatching.

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.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

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

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

Requirements

Intermediate English or Beginner Spanish

Between 20 and 50 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

Travel insurance

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We are looking for people with a big heart and love for farming, chocolate, local people and nature , with the capacity of improvise and adaptation because we have in our farm cocoa plantations, some avocado trees, guayaba, mango, sheeps, cows, chickens, dogs, cats and bees.

We are 25 Km from the town (El Carmen de Chucuri), and the road between the town and the farm is very very tough, the bus can move through this road, but jump a lot.

Activities & Shift

Actividades relacionadas con el trabajo cotidiano en una finca de la región de cacao, ovejas y vacas, que incluye el trabajo con el cacao, cuidado de animales y ocasionalmente fabricar chocolates, así como ayudar con algunos oficios de la casa.

Rules

Tener flexibilidad con los horarios.
Ambiente familiar.
No drogas, ni exceso de alcohol.
Ambiente comunitario, en construcción de gobernanza del territorio.