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Gardener 🌿🥬🫑🌶️🥕and building project helper 🔨

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The experience

Join our team at the Liberty Center as a volunteer to help establish and maintain a vegetable garden supporting sustainability, staff meals, and our hospitality training program and café. We're looking for someone with practical skills to assist with garden upkeep and occasional maintenance or building projects alongside our local team. This role offers a chance to contribute to the center's growth and positive community impact.

What you offer

20 hours of help per week

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

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

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 7 Per day

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers and Donation to project

Description: The small daily covers daily lunch meals from Monday to Friday, as well as a contribution towards your electricity and water usage and to help us maintain the visitor accommodation. If you would like access to satellite Internet, this is an extra US$10 per month.

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.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Discounts on Restaurants: Get discounts at nearby restaurants.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

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

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

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

Requirements

Intermediate Portuguese and Intermediate English

Between 18 and 55 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

Our programs run Monday to Friday, this role will be working with our local male team to help them learn about successfully growing as maintaining a healthy vegetable garden. planting from seeds, cultivating seedlings and growing to bring fourth fruit and vegetables, also pest control. It would be helpful for you to be able to create some systems that ensure the longevity of the project to help bring sustainability to our women’s center and community programs.

Activities & Shift

Your responsibilities would be Monday to Friday 7:30am - 4pm.

Rules

respect for our faith based organization is necessary and a willingness to learn and work with cultures outside of your own.
No drugs, alcohol or cigarettes permitted.