Help with our project to create a straw bale family home in rural Baal, Belgium

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  Descripción

  We want to cover the outside walls of our home with a wooden skeleton and straw bales. There is a lot work to do, building, cooking. Experience is not really necessary, but we appreciate it if you have some experience in working outside ,a good pair of hands and a willing mind. You will work together with other workawayers so being a team player is needed.
  
  We are a Belgian family of 6, our kids are 25, 23, 18 and 17 years, living on the countryside. We bought our house after returning from almost 4 years of living in South-Africa , where we volunteered for a Belgian NGO. Our family is growing so we need to expand .We chose the most ecological and budget-friendly option.
  We want to exchange our culture and experiences with new people from all around the world. We had a wonderful time with workawayers in the last past years.
  Have a look at our Facebook and Instagram page -ask me for the link.
  You find a lot of photos on our project.

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  Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  Construcción y bricolaje

  Cocinar para toda la familia
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  Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  After a good day of work, have some wine or a beer, and discuss life and the world. We traveled a lot ourselves, the best moments were the moments we stayed with families and close to local people. It broadened our view on the world.
  This is an opportunity for travelers that are interested in building with straw and clay first hand! Manual building techniques. We take turns cooking, so we can experience dishes from all around the world :) You are welcome in our family, and we can exchange a lot.

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  Ayuda

  We are renovating the house from 1964 with strawbale - wood skeleton.
  2023: finishing installation of the kitchen, finishing the chicken area, installing new watering system, installing a filtering installation with natural elements. Working in the vegetable garden.
  2024: we have one house with the new building with wood and straw. We make a wooden skeleton, in between we put straw bales. We cover the walls with traskalk.

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  Idiomas hablados

  Inglés: Fluido
  Francés: Fluido
  Holandés: Fluido
  Español: Principiante

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  Alojamiento

  We provide 2 small caravans and 3 tents in the backyard, with electricity. We have also a camping car with 2 rooms each for 2 persons We provide meals at our place, toilet and shower is in the house. There is also a fireplace. We have extended the wifi up to the backyard .
  We provide for each person a good matress and pillow ,extra blanket. So we make sure that you feel comfortable when the weather is not very good. We have place in the house for 3 persons, especially if the weather is cold

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  Algo más...

  We are in a rural area, but there are good transportation connections close, bus connections at less than 2 kms, train station at 4 km, you can use a bike (it's flat here). Just 35 mins by train to Brussels, Leuven, Antwerp. 1h - 1h30 to Liege, Hasselt or Ghent/Bruges. There is a lot to discover in those cities!
  So if you want to take a day off, no problem, We will mostly be busy in the mornings and have free time in the afternoon, have dinner in the evening. During the weekends we are not working

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  Un poco más de información

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    Acceso a Internet

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    Acceso a Internet limitado

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    Tenemos animales

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    Somos fumadores

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    Puede alojar familias

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  Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

  We extend the WiFi to the back of the garden so no problem to have internet during your stay

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  Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas

  We have enough place to park a motorhome, only the entrance is limited,so vehicles up to about 6-8 metres long (there is a short turn to enter the place)

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  Podría aceptar mascotas

  We don't have a fence around our house

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  ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

  Más de dos

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  Horas esperadas

  Maximum 4 hours a day, 5 days a week

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