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Cleaning and Watering the Plant Nursery at a Vegan Community

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The experience

Our project is reforesting with fruit trees at the edge of the Amazon rainforest, so by cleaning and living spaces and watering our plant nursery, you will be contributing to our reforestation efforts.

You will mostly be cleaning our kitchen, dining space, community centre, bathrooms, and bedrooms for new arrivals, taking out the kitchen compost, and watering the plant nursery.

What you offer

20 hours of help per week

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 15 Per week

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

Description: We request everyone stay a minimum of two weeks, preferably more, and submit a $100 security deposit upon arrival. The security deposit will be returned at the end of your stay minus the cost of any community belongings you personally break or lose. For stays of less than a month, $50 of that will be kept as a donation to the community. Utilities are $25 per calendar month (not pro rata).

What you get

1 day off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.

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

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

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.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Dedicated Workspace: Specific space for you to work remotely

Requirements

Fluent English or Fluent Spanish

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

You will be working 20 hours a week, mostly cleaning and water our plant nursery.

Activities & Shift

Twice a day you will water the plants in the nursery, and periodically you will take out the kitchen compost. The rest of your volunteer time will be cleaning: the kitchen, the dining hall, the showers, the bathrooms, the community centre, bedrooms for new arrivals.

Rules

Food stuffs,

We have usually abundant bananas, papayas and some citrus year round. Other fruits like jackfruit, marang, starfruit, rollinia, peanut butter fruit, soursop, ice cream beans etc which come and go seasonally, and various roots for cooking when it's harvest time. We do not have enough food producing to feed everyone. Supplemental food can be bought at the market. Whole fruit and vegan food is the only food we allow. No oil, processed sugar or processed foods (with some explicit exceptions).


Sleeping info,

We have spare rooms and beds, but rarely spare bedding to borrow so it is best to plan on either bringing bedding and buying sheets and a blanket or two in town for your use. We also have some bedding put aside for rent, it's $5 / week or $15 / month.

In order to participate in our community meetings you need to watch this video first: https://youtu.be/_m3yjrC23Fc