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Region: Durban,Kwa-Mashu,Umgababa

My grandmother Mirriam Cele initiated the Organisation along with a group of volunteer women. Mirriam spent 17 years as a community and development worker and was employed by the Diakonia Council of Churches in that capacity. She is the recipient of many accolades, amongst them, the Martin Luther King Peace Award the Paul Harris Award (by the Rotary Club), the eThekwini Mayor's Awards in 1999 and the 2004 Fair Lady Claims Eau Dynamisante Woman of the Year Award recognition. Our name is the Zulu term for “stay a while, rest a while or halfway house.” This name was chosen as a result of the visionary, Mirriam Cele, receiving calls from people in the community telling her of children, some as young as 6 months being abandoned due to poverty or more tragically, as a result of parents having died of AIDS. Mirriam would collect these children and then hold them while she traced their next-of-kin, which often proved to be a futile exercise. Our model ensures that each child is placed with the willing childminder for the night and attends the care centre during the day. This allows the caregivers to assess the well-being of each child on a continual basis, especially those who are infected with HIV.Each foster granny receives a food parcel for the child in consideration of the shelter provided at night.

Region: Andalucia

My family & I recently moved to Velez Blanco, Almeria, Spain. We bought an old Cortijo approximately 1km out of Velez Blanco in the campo. It is an area of natural beauty with a very strong local farming community. Our Cortijo had belonged to a local farming family some years ago but has since suffered considerable neglect. We have 3 sons 15, 10 and 8 years old. 2 horses, 2 dogs and 2 cats Speedy and Ash. We completed the internal renovations in April 2012 when we moved into the property. We are now commencing work externally, our wish is to return the small holding to producing organic vegetables, contributing the olive harvest to the local cooperative and sustaining the land to encourage local wildlife. We have several caves within the farm which produce a constant natural source of water, we have managed to collect this water and are now irrigating the land and supplying drinking water to our horses. The horses manure will supply fertiliser for the vegetables, flowers and trees. We would like volunteers to help us work on the land, care for our animal and help with the renovations. We have a lot of work to do externally on the house, the stables, the pool house and the land. Our children go to the local school and belong to a number of after school activities including conservatorio de muscia. There maybe help required in the house at times depending on our work plans. In return we are able to provide comfortable accommodation with our family for a mixture of european home cooked meals.

Region: Northern Ontario

Hello, Update 19 Sept 2013 - thanks to help from neighbours and friends, the porch is done. Now the firewood needs to be brought into the woodshed and the yards need to be cleaned up one last time before winter sets in. I can't do much physical work so I also need help doing the Fall housecleaning. Regis will be home from hospital in a couple days but will also not be able to do any physical work - he had a breathing tube and feeding tube put in. So basically what we need is a strong man or a couple to become part of our family for a few weeks to help us get ready for winter. Update 29 August 2013 - we are in immediate need of help to get the side porch built before cold weather sets in. Regis has tried to help but his health is just not making that possible. The weather has also been uncooperative with rain delaying any hope of outside work. We have a friend here from Southern Ontario but construction is way behind because Regis has not been able to help as much as he would have liked. We need help from someone who has done any kind of construction. Update 15 April, 2013 - Due to health reasons, we are not considering hosting in 2013 at this time. Regis was diagnosed with cancer in February 2012, and is using natural means to bring himself into good health. He finds company upsetting and needs to remain calm and focused during his recovery. It has been a long hard battle but he has already surpassed the oncologist's survival projection of fall 2012. Your prayers and thoughts would be most welcome with focus on calm and hope in and around Regis. Thank you. =========================== My husband (Regis) and I (Noreen) are an older couple and had had enough of life in a stressful, polluted environment. So in the Fall of 2008 we sold our house in Southern Ontario and bought an old, neglected 42 acre farm in Northern Ontario. We are "semi-retired". I tried my hand at organic gardening and year-round greenhouse for our own organic veggies but after 4 seasons of disappointment, I made the decision it is not worth the stress and will buy local organic produce. Regis is a "jack-of-all trades" and has just about every tool you can imagine for auto mechanics, welding, wood working and general "messing around" and he is quite willing to show you how to use them. Our 2 children are both grown and gone. Our daughter is married, and has a daughter of her own who starts Grade 2 in Sept 2012. Our son was "living the life" in Australia, working maintenance at an island resort on the Great Barrier Reef but moved in with us when Regis was diagnosed with canacer. He has been a great help and is settling in nicely in our slower paced way of life. As long as he can take a week a few times a year and visit "civilization", he is glad to get back to the peace & quiet. Despite the cancer, there is still SMOKING in the house. In your first email, PLEASE state that you are OK with this.

Region: Victoria

We live on 80 acres 2 hours north of Melbourne, I have plenty of small jobs that take one or two people to do, if you want to feel needed and useful your help would be very much welcomed Work start time 10 am plenty of time for you to go for walks read a book or watch for kangaroos. there is my self and my brothers girl living here Rosie is her name she has two home schooled children and i have a dog that loves to play ball this is the most important job to him and me, other jobs are seed collection for environmental works and summer watering of vegetable gardens some weeding breakfast and lunch supplied shared evening meal, there is a caravan for you to stay in with simple comforts. i can pick you up from Seymour railway if you don't have your own transport.Thanks for taking the time to read this all the best on your travels and hope to see you soon Terese Bock.

Region: Nogueirinha, near Oliveira do Hospital

Writing this update in April 2014 we have some availability (for profiles that meet our needs) in May, then none until October unless previously arranged. The summer months are too hot to realistictly achieve much, hence reduced availability. We've been hosting 'Workawayers' for some time now and on the whole it's been a positive experience. In addition to running the quinta we also advertise property and land for sale on behalf of local Portuguese people and accommodate people searching for property in the region. For this reason we can't guarantee 'Workaway' availability at all times shown in our calender, we're sure you'll understand, we do aim to respond to all enquiries promptly! 'The quinta is located in the rural village of Nogueirinha, near Oliveira do Hospital in Central Portugal. The traditional house has been fully renovated and has two bedrooms, the lower level is self-contained with a combined bed/sitting room, separate shower room and toilet. Within easy walking distance of the house is a small shop with adjoining cafe/bar and the local Associação (social club). The 1.2 hectare quinta sits on hillside with a mix of woodland and terraces. The (upper) wooded area supports native trees, and the (lower) terraces are used for cultivation of our seasonal crops, vines, Olive and fruit trees. We are an English couple, Patrick (55) & Elaine (46), we share the house / land with our dogs, Daisy, Rrrags & Eccles, we also have two cats and two hens. We've a number of ongoing projects, we are improving our 'garden' (as well as our cultivation areas), We also have vegetable planting and (seemingly endless) weeding to do in addition to normal land maintenance. We are in the final stages of extending the kitchen and doing other building projects. A self motivated volunteer with building and/or horticultural experience would be ideal, is this you? IMPORTANT! We endeavour to have a sustainable lifestyle, however our quinta isn't an 'eco project'. Where appropriate we use powered machinery for land preparation, insecticides and fertilizers on our crops and herbicides for control of problem species. We feel it's important to make this clear to potential volunteers to prevent them working in an environment in which they would be uncomfortable. As is common, we provide food for three meals a day (prepared with 'workawayer' help), we don't provide between meal snacks, or drinks when visiting bars or other events. We eat practically all 'conventional' foods, anyone with an unconventional or 'alternative' diet should let us know when applying to volunteer. If you have specific dietary requirements causing us greater expenditure, please be prepared to make a contribution.