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Volunteer to care for our beautiful children in the Aussie bush!

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The experience

This position encompasses a range of important jobs at our farm-stay, the main one being taking care of our beautiful children for a few hours most days. We have 2 little boys, 1.5 and nearly 4 years old (plus older and younger cousins!).

You may also be asked to help with maintaining our gardens, working in the Cafe and housekeeping. anything that needs done on site. You would have the opportunity to learn many new skills, including pottery!

What you offer

24 hours of help per week

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Housekeeping: Help with changing the bed linens and general housekeeping.

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

Child Care: Caring for, playing with, and spending time with children.

What you get

1 day 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.

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

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

Requirements

Intermediate English or Beginner German

Between 20 and 40 years old

Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Hello!
Our farm is a little gem in the Australian Bush and it’s a lovely place to live and work. We are a 3 generations family-operated tourist attraction that runs a farm stay accommodation in addition to our pottery, which includes a large studio space and gallery. Pilliga Pottery's daily workshops are very popular. We run a farm with sheep, goats and cattle and grow a lot of vegetables in our green house. We also bake our own bread and use many produces from the farm. Our Blue Wren Cafe is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Our community consists of full-time workers and volunteers and we come from all corners of the world. We always have a few volunteers all year round as well as seasonal workers in the holiday season. We generally eat most of our meals together.

Activities & Shift

The work we offer ranges from day to day, month to month and season to season.

Each volunteer is expected to work 4 hours per day in exchange for food and board. While taking care of our children, you are guaranteed that no two days are the same! We might not need your help for the kids the same hours every day and some days you might get to experience some other jobs in the garden, housekeeping, cafe/kitchen or pottery if the children are all sorted for that dat.

Because we are a small family-business, the work we offer to our volunteers can change from day to day. You might have different tasks while you're here although your main responsibility would be child care.
If you are flexible and take changes with a smile (within reason), you'll fit in perfectly with us at our farm and in our community.

Rules

We are a community with people from different countries, backgrounds and beliefs. It's important to respect everybody for who they are and embrace them as they are.
Additionally, we are a hospitality-based business thus it is equally important to welcome and respect our guests and visitors.

You should preferably:
- not mind getting your hands dirty
- be flexible
- speak English or German
- be kind and open-minded
- a good communicator
- be reliable!
- have a good work ethic
- be open-minded and happy to try new tasks