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🌿 Childminding in a cave on a building site, it's fun! 🏡👶

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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.

Currently we live in a studio apartment in a cave while renovating the house.

Both of us are self-employed 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.

What you offer

16 hours of help per week

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

Cooking: Choose the menu, pick ingredients and cook delicious dishes.

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.
Unfortunately we're not a good choice for digital nomads - there is no internet access in the 'guest house' and because we live in a studio apartment there is not much space for someone to work online from our place. But there is still, as the listing says, basic internet :-)

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. Preferably for 4 hours, 5 days a week, but we're always open to discussing other arrangements.

Besides taking care of our little man the other tasks with which we might need help are many and varied - it all depends on how far along we are with our renovation when you're here.
Don't be afraid to ask what we're currently doing and what we think we'll be doing during your desired period with us.

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, etc... basic common sense.