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🌿 Help Renovate Our Eco Home & Join Our Little Family 🏡👶

The experience

We're an Irish/French couple with a baby boy (Lorcan) and our project is an eco-renovation of a little, old house for our new little family.

We're both independant electricians, with different backgrounds (Philosophy for Myriam, Civil Engineering for Carlo) but our love of nature and the environment is the constant in our lives.



Come get to know us, it'll be great!

What you offer

21 hours of help per week

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

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

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

What you get

3 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.

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

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.

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

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

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

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 English or Beginner French

Over 18 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're eco-renovating a small house (with caves!) and we have the use of another little house 2 doors up the street to lodge our guests/volunteers.

In our experience mealtimes are a great time to socialise and get to know one another, as well as exchanging culturally.

As a result volunteers usually participate in houshold tasks like helping with preparing meals, washing-up afterwards, etc.

It's not everyone, all the time, but it does make a big difference when we all share the load!

In short we hope for you to become a happy part of our home for the time you are with us, and whenever you return in the future!

Activities & Shift

Ideally we would like you to help for about 20 hours per week. This could be 4 hours, 5 days a week, or 3 full days, or some other mix.

The tasks are varied and depend on how far along we are with our renovation when you're here.

Rules

It's not a labour camp or a frat house here, so ordinary, respectful common sense and open communication are the rules we try to live by.

No smoking indoors, no drugs on site, no working drunk, no naked sunbathing on the roof... basic common sense.