Finca Galvez -Huaquillo : Café Orgánico

INTRODUCTION:
We know that life in cities is stressful and hard. Every single day we have got to deal with noice, bad mood, traffic, problems and many similar things. This is the main reason we are always trying to disconnect from this reality and take a deep breathe as well as we charge energies.
We offer you the chance to scape from this situation while you are helping us with a familiar project we have got in the northern rainforest of Peru.

WORK AND VOLUNTEERS
We need to work with no more tan 4 volunteers at the same time. The work system is 6 days/week, 6h/day ( 36hours / week aprox, depending of weather conditions).

We have separeted two big group of activities to do during the volunteering:


Activities in the camp:
• About coffee: Harvesting, field cleaning to planting and planting.
• Harvesting different fruits like oranges, sugar cane, bananas.
• Cow managment ( feeding, moving, etc).
• Wood choping.
• Construction of vegetable garden.

Activities in the house:
• Construction of a cleaning garbage system (including compost).
• Construction of paths from the road to the entry of the house and inside of it.
• Preparation of the fround in the house for the ceramic and other tiles or Wood / rocks.
• Construction of simple house furniture (support for candles, kitchen tools, support of clothes, etc).
• Improve the house like fixing windows, tools.
• Help for cooking.
• Child care / teaching / walking to school.
• Cow managment (feeding, moving, etc).
• Wood choping.
• Construction of vegetable garden.

What to bring:
• Gloves to work
• Headlines
• Card games
• Pillows
• Mosquito repellent.
• Sleeping bags
• Own food (if you have a specific alimentary regim)

Where do you sleep:
The conditions of living are very simple and basic (no electricity, no internet, no warm water in the shower) and volunteers share room in basic bed with protection for mosquitos.

Which language:
Only spanish or intermediate spanish at least.
What else:
In your free time you can do trekings and exploring the área like the the three waterfalls and improve your spanish with the family and the locals in Huaquillo.

OUR PROJECT We belong to a long and old coffee producer family. We have got around thirty hectares of lands of which we are working five of them with coffee, cacao and other fruits like oranges and bananas. Our project consists to develop the farm in an sustaintable and organic way, improving quality of coffee through the right processes without using chemical products (herbicides, pesticides) and protecting the environment. We also try to improve the family’s quality life. The team is my family (parents, brothers and cousins) and we all work together to achieve this project. We all like the spirit of volunteering and the strength of people who really want to discover how is the coffee process is while they protect the enviroment. LOCATION: HOW TO GET THERE Huaquillo is small village located inTamborapa Pueblo which is a town of San Ignacio distrit, part of Cajamarca region in the north east part of Peru close to the border of Ecuador. Huaquillo is a beautiful village surrounded by nature and wildlife, it has got amazing cascades and offers the chance of doing good trekings. You have got two ways to get to Tamborapa Pueblo, from Piura or from Jaen Piura – Huancabamba: 7 hours and 40 soles ($9) Huancabamba – Tamborapa Pueblo: 3 hours and 35 soles ($8) Jaen – Tamborapa: 4 hours and 35 soles ($8)


Avaliações

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Anfitrião & Equipe

5.0

Horas & Atividades

4.5

Hostel

4.5

Aprendizado & Diversão

5.0

Dinamarca

5

I enjoyed this volunteering so much. The family are the most welcome and so heartwarming . I learned a lot about coffee and did a lot of different things at the farm. Everything was amazing and I enjoyed it a lot! I highly recommend this experience☀️

3 meses atrás

França

5

Amazing experience within Victor and Elsy family. Felt really integrated, the task were nice and I was able to connect with them. I 100% recommend this experience !

3 meses atrás

Reino Unido

5

Amazing experience learning about coffee and sugar cane farming! Totally different to everything else I’ve done on my travels. Really enjoyed myself!

11 meses atrás

França

5

Pasé 2 lindas semanas con Víctor y su familia. Me sentí muy bien y incluido en la familia.
Pusé discubrir muchas cosas diferentes sobre su finca. A Víctor le gusta compartir y mostrar su trabajo.
Fue un verdadero placer de ayudar en la finca y fueron dos semanas muy cortas ! El lugar ed muy lindo también !
Gracias por todo y hasta luego !

12 meses atrás

Chile

5

Una experiencia maravillosa desde que viajas hasta huaquillo y durante todo el voluntariado, te havem sentir parte de la familia y la comunidad, aprendes muchísimo! muy lindo todo!

1 ano atrás


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