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Mural Painting, Gardening and Cleaning in 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 gardening, cleaning, helping with farm work and painting murals on our community's tables you will be supporting our reforestation efforts.

You will spend half of your time designing and painting murals on our tables, and the other half gardening in our vegetable and herb garden beds, cleaning the community spaces, and helping with farm work as needed.

What you offer

20 hours of help per week

Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

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

Arts: Help with painting, graffiti, sculpting or drawing.

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

2 days 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, 10 hours a week designing and painting murals on tables, and the other 10 hours gardening, cleaning, and helping with farm work.

Activities & Shift

The timing of your work is pretty much up to you, other than any farm work which will be in the morning with other volunteers, and cleaning. Depending on our needs at the time, you may be cleaning 2-3 times a week, or only for a short time once a week in a group with others.

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