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Teaching English, leading our fitness classes and reforestation

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The experience

We are looking for one or two girls to teach English to children, lead daily group workouts, housekeeping, and more. You don't have to have any experience in fitness instruction. We provide free English classes, and reforestation work as a public service to our local community. Why women? If we installed random men in these classrooms, we would have a statistically significant increased risk that these children would be exposed to harm.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

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

Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.

Teaching Sports: Teaching or assisting the host, guests, or local communities in practicing sports or physical activities.

Teaching Languages: Teaching a language to the host, guests, or local communities.

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 6 Per day

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers, Materials for volunteer activities, and Donation to project

Description: This goes towards meals, and expenses related to the volunteers.

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.

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.

Discounts on Tours: Get discounts for tours and excursions around town.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

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 Intermediate Spanish

Between 18 and 35 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Activities & Shift

WHAT YOU CAN DO HERE-
Your primary responsibilities will be helping me with our daily group workouts, teaching English in the lical native community's high school and housekeeping. We have a home gym, and laundry machine which you can also use. On some days, you may be able to help with tree planting, gardening, eco-construction, tree nursery, ceramics, and crafts, if you chose to. You can observe our coconut oil production, but not participate in the processes of production, meaning you can't help with producing coconut oil, putting the lables on jars and packaging the products,

We usually have 4 to 10 volunteers staying in dorms.
You will have your own private room and private washroom, 3 meals a day which you can have where you are staying or with the other volunteers.
We usually have pizza night once a week made in our own pizza oven.
We also have sushi night once a week.
Helping hours are only 5 hours a day, 5 days a week.
We have a good relationship with the native communities nearby. You can volunteer to teach English.
After helping we highly recommend going for a swim in the river here, going for a hike in the forest right here, playing football or volleyball in one of our 2 native communities within a 25 minute walk from here, or going for a shorter walk to visit some of our friendly neighbors farms. We usually go sightseeing, hiking on the weekend or even a weekday as well as make a run to the city if you like.

We're not just looking for helpers but also people to share this beautiful place and experience with.
We are looking for a 2 week stay, then possibly more if it makes sense to both of us.
We have an incredible river with cascades on the property that we are developing as one of our main tourist attractions.

Rules

No smoking in and around common areas and dorms.