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Updated 2nd July 2008.

 

248

 

Family/ Organization:

 RUTH VAN DEN BOSSCHE 4 children between 5 and 9, two parents, warm and active family with lots of friends  
  Country: Belguim  
  Languages spoken: French, Dutch, English  
  Area: Countryside, near to Gent, Brugge,coast  
  Work on offer: Painting inside walls  
  Accommodation: Either a spare room inside or a camping site in the garden, as you choose  
   
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247

 

Family/ Organization:

 Fay Durrant, Me and two children ( sometimes more sometimes none!) Its a really beautiful area ,right next to the Picos De Europa (an amazing mountain range) with an open air swimming pool at the end of the road, loads of wildlife, walks, horse riding, biking , Leon Ciry is only 40kn away with good transport conections.... Its lovely ! I can provide good food and a bike and lifts to places.  
  Country: Spain  
  Languages spoken: English and Spanish  
  Area: Asturias Leon  
  Work on offer: We have a half built wooden round house that I would like to finish. ALso general work around the land where several ecological project were started and left a year ago. We have an irrigation system and large garden to repair and maintain. I  
  Accommodation: Camping or caravan  
   
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246

 

Family/ Organization:

 Dorian We are a family of 3. Marie and Dorian who are in their 40s and Elliot  
  Country: France  
  Languages spoken: English, French and Spanish  
  Area: Toulouse  
  Work on offer: We have a large house with a never endeing list of things to improve, finish and start all over again!. The garden could do with fence fixing, we need a new bike shed. Some reorganising of space and I would really like to start a rainwater project and create some water storage. We have lots of ideas.  
  Accommodation: Your own room, toilet and shower.  
   
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245

 

Family/ Organization:

 Christine. Large home owned by single woman with 2 rooms available.  
  Country: Canada  
  Languages spoken: English, German  
  Area: Vancover Island Located in Cambell Island a recreational paradise  
  Work on offer: Large property with lots of potential. could use some casual attending to. I´m open to creative ideas The Bernese mountain dog would also love somebody to walk with  
  Accommodation: Room with private bath but shared kitchen.  
   
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244

 

Family/ Organization:

Russel and Yvonne.

Yvonne and I live on our own in a 3 bed house with our 4 dogs. We have approx 7 acres where we grow vegetables and grapes, fruit and bamboo

  
  Country: France  
  Languages spoken: English and abit of French  
  Area: Aude Languedoc Rousillon.  
  Work on offer: Mostly working with the land. weeding , pruning, general tiding  
  Accommodation: Spare room or camping.  
   
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243

 

Family/ Organization:

 Eloy, me, Ziggi 15yrs old, Nico 4 yrs old and Angel 3yrs old, living in the Countryside, 15km from the Atlantic coast.  
  Country: Spain  
  Languages spoken: Spanish, English & Italian  
  Area: Costa de la Luz  
  Work on offer: We are looking for someone to help out with general maintenance, house, gardens, vegetable garden, and pool. We have a summer beach bar/restaurant in Zahara de los Atunes, so it would also be great to have someone that likes playing beach games with the kids.  
  Accommodation: Fully equiped caravan in garden  
   
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242

 

Family/ Organization:

Zeoc & Jen Mosheyev and our sons Micah (3) andEmmanuel (1 month)

We homeschool our children and teach them the joys of living simply. We are off the grid with solar electricity and raincatchment.

 

  
  Country: Hawaii, USA  
  Languages spoken: English, Portugese, Spanish, Hebrew  
  Area: East Maui  
  Work on offer: We are a working farmwith many things to do. If your interests aregardening and working with the animals or helping inthe house and with the children there could be a placehere for you. We plant, weed, harvest ,prune and cleardaily. We would like to teach our children languages,music and much more than is possible for usto do on our own. We have a barn with a kitchen aswell as a kitchen in our home. We live on a beautiful3.5 acres of land and like to work together  
  Accommodation: Spare room available, garden for camping etc There are severaloptions:rustic cabin with loft,large screened in tent,or a bed in our barn. Tenting is also available. Wehave a composting toilet and solar hot water forshowers.A wood burning water heater is used when thesun is behind the clouds.  
   
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241

 

Family/ Organization:

Dawn Schneider. Myself and my 18 year old son.

Come to Vancover one of the most beautiful cities in the world and home to the 2010 olympics. You can ski or board inWhisler until June.

We are very casual and enjoy music, skiing and travel.

  
  Country: Canada  
  Languages spoken: Spanish, English and a little French  
  Area: Vancover  
  Work on offer: 2 hours per day 5days per week. Gardening , painting, minor repairs and office work. Come and try for a week and then longer should it work out.  
  Accommodation: In exchange we can offer you accommodation in our guest room  
   
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240

 

Family/ Organization:

Orphanage in Katmandu , Nepal

Established in 2005 and is a non profit organisation.

We aim to provide health care and education to children who have lost both their parents. Our objective is to equip them with the life skills they need to live varied and fulfilling lives. Currently providing loving and caring home for 5 children though we can accommodate 10. There are plans for further development in the future. Eventually the project hopes to become self suffiecient and financially independent

  
  Country: Nepal  
  Languages spoken: Nepali, English  
  Area: Katmandu, capital city of Nepal  
  Work on offer: As a volunteer you will be placed at the orphange or with a host family. You will be assisting them with their everyday needs ,teaching them life skills and also organising excursions or art projects. You will need to have a basic understanding of English.  
  Accommodation: With host family or at orphanage  
   
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239

 

Family/ Organization:

Amit Kvint

We are a family of four. Limor, Me, Yuval and Yarden. We live in a village just 15km from the Atlantic in our straw bale home surrounded with pines, fields and lovely people.

  
  Country: Spain  
  Languages spoken: English, Spanish, Hebrew  
  Area: Costa de la Luz  
  Work on offer: General help is needed, especially around the house and with the kids and the land.  
  Accommodation: Fully equipped caravan in garden.  
   
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238

 

Family/ Organization:

 Non Profit Turtle Conservation Project that preserves wildlife, supports local community and provides language tuition to turtle volunteers & groups.  
  Country: Costa Rica  
  Languages spoken: Spanish English  
  Area: Caribbean Coast  
  Work on offer: In addition to our main turtle project we have a language school and accomodations 400m along the beach. We would like a resident caretaker/security couple (working separate shifts) who would.... guard property, maintain gardens, feed dogs and clean cabins. In return Spanish tuition, comfortable accomodation and 3 meals a day are offered  
  Accommodation: Clean cabins  
   
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237

 

Family/ Organization:

Bilingual school in Central America. Our aim is to provide a bilingual education for poor and under priviledged children

  
  Country: Honduras  
  Languages spoken: Spanish, English  
  Area: Cortes  
  Work on offer: We provide accomodation and a stipend for food as well as one meal a day at the school for all volunteers. There is no minimum length of stay, we have volunteers who come for 2 weeks who are very warmly received, and volunteers who teach for two years.  
  Accommodation: Shared accommodation  
   
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236

 

Family/ Organization:

 Andi Holton. We live in a small community of 4 people and 3 dogs very near to the beautiful beaches of the Costa de la Luz  
  Country: Spain  
  Languages spoken: English and Spanish  
  Area: Costa de la Luz  
  Work on offer: I´´m looking for a couple or two travelling together to help with various gardening and eco building projects within a small community. I am asking for 3 hours work per day in exchange for accommodation.  
  Accommodation: Accommodation in a self contained converted ambulance 10 mins walk from the beach  
   
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235

 

Family/ Organization:

Meldgaard Heeste Jeanette and Hans

We are placed in the beautiful nature of the western part of Himmerland run a farm with Icelandic horses. We rent out canoes and horses for tourists have riding tours trail ride riding camps with accommodation and food mostly for kids but planning to have adults too. We are in a process of expanding. Especially in the summer time.

we Whave a lot of young people working here. We are used to take in volunteers from all over the world. Most have bee really pleasant to have here and a lot have comeback.

 

  
  Country: Denmark  
  Languages spoken: Danish, English and some German  
  Area: Vesthimmerland Jutland.  
  Work on offer: We offer all kind of odd jobs mostly cleaning cooking fencing foresting mugging out painting restoration saddling horses tidying up tree planting weeding etc And maybe- if you are good at it - construction work  
  Accommodation: Lawn if you bring a tent or a camper spare rooms shed hut and as we get along with the expanding there will be more offers.  
   
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234

 

Family/ Organization:

Larry and Jan.

We would love to have you come and join our family of 4 plus 2 cats and a very friendly dog. Larry has an off site day job, the teens are busy with work, so that leaves me Jan to most often be your work partner. We are non smokers and meat eaters.

  
  Country: Canada  
  Languages spoken: English and a little bit of French.  
  Area: Duncun, Vancover Island.  
  Work on offer: We have just built a new home on 16 acres of feild and forest so there is lots to do from planting gardens to making forest trails and building fences.  
  Accommodation: Nice large spare room with joining toilet and shower.  
   
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233

 

Family/ Organization:

Doug Treasure

Middle aged couple who run sheep, cattle and horses on different properties.

  
  Country: Australia  
  Languages spoken: English  
  Area: Gippsland  
  Work on offer: Horse exercising and training on young broken in horses. Some droving and farm maintanence.  
  Accommodation: Detached flat, meals with the family.  
   
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232

 

Family/ Organization:

 Ittelet. I´m 61 years old and my wife is 56. We have a bed and breakfast accommodation in a small village.  
  Country: Belguim  
  Languages spoken: French, English  
  Area: Ardenne  
  Work on offer: I need help tree planting, landscaping and general gardening a knowledge or interest in honey and horses would be benificial  
  Accommodation: Spare room  
   
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231

 

Family/ Organization:

Simone Kempf

I live with my 2 kids in a beachside house in Southern Spain.

 
  Country: Spain  
  Languages spoken: German, Spanish, English  
  Area: Costa de la Luz  
  Work on offer: I rent out my house with 3 apartments. So there is always something to do including cooking and playing with the kids.  
  Accommodation: Wooden garden house  
   
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230

 

Family/ Organization:

We are a large historic country homestead, operating as a luxury lodge. We are restoring the buildings historic places trust listed and developing the gardens 88 acres which have been neglected for 40 years.Our occupations are garden design and antique restoration. We have fabulous views of Mt Hutt and The Alps ski fields 30 minutes away. We are 45 minutes from Christchurch in the foothills of the Southern Alps near Rakaia Gorge

  
  Country: New Zealand  
  Languages spoken: English, Italian, Spanish, French  
  Area: South Island, Canterbury.  
  Work on offer: We are looking for someone to help with the housekeeping and outdoor jobs gardening lawnmowing weeding wood cutting and painting maintenance of wooden buildings also welcome.If you have carpentry skills that would be great too.Our gourmet preserves business Buoni Sapori with organic produce from the estate is also well underway.  
  Accommodation: Your accommodation is in the lodge so very high standard and we expect you to be part of the family. Please NO smokers and no vegetarians.  
   
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229

 

Family/ Organization:
Sheyenne Solomon. I am part of a local family in Hawaii that has various pieces of land that we are turning into organic self sufficient proerties and also building an eco retreat.
 
  Country: Hawaii USA  
  Languages spoken: English  
  Area: Hawaii  
  Work on offer: Building an eco retreat. We need volunteers that want to learn about organic gardening and building for room and board. We want workers that are honest and reliable  
  Accommodation: Small house. Camping available as well as garden.  
   
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228

 

Family/ Organization:

Jim and Jo Monahan.

We live together with our 16 year old son Magnus and 4 year old cocker spaniel Kim in a beautiful wooded glen valley near a village called spingdale about 50 miles North of Inverness in the Northern Scottish highlands. We have a 6 acre former croft, a traditional small highland farmstead which we are gradually developing as a permaculture site. We are surrounded by 1700 acres of stunning natural woodland and belong to a conservation body called thw woodland trust. We are currently building an Eco house as our new family home.

  
  Country: Scotland  
  Languages spoken: English  
  Area: Scottish Highlands  
  Work on offer: Ideally we are looking for some relevant experience..i.e. Carpentry, wood machinery, floor laying, tiling, stone work etc We would also like to hear from volunteers interested in gardening, horticulture, tree planting, keeping chickens etc  
  Accommodation: Self contained dormitory with 5 beds, shower room, cookng facilities, tv, internet, pool table etc.  
   
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227

 

Family/ Organization:

Tamara Stone.

Single woman with 18 year old son who's a senoir in high school. We live on a really fun island, great community always looking to meet fellow travelers.

  
  Country: USA  
  Languages spoken: English  
  Area: Vashon Island, near Seattle WA.  
  Work on offer: General help of any and all kinds. I work off the land so there's plenty to do here. Fire wood splitting, landscaping, organic gardening, carpentry skills would be great, but not mandatory, just some one to help out for a few months. Lot's to do.  
  Accommodation: Small cabin  
   
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226

 

Family/ Organization:

Wolf Marbach.

We run a retreat and seminar centre located on a mostly wild piece of land. Our guests are mostly spiritual.

  
  Country: France  
  Languages spoken: English, German  
  Area: Vosges, Mountains, Franche Comté  
  Work on offer: Very different kinds of work ranging from cooking, cleaning, general service to garden, painting. land maintanence.  
  Accommodation: Room possibly shared with other helper. We provide vegetarian food.  
   
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225

 

Family/ Organization:

 Pat Cornett. We are looking for open minded people to have lots of fun and laughter.  
  Country: Portugal  
  Languages spoken: English, Portugese  
  Area: Algarve, Silves Area  
  Work on offer: Working on land looking after horses, gardening work, building work including making staw bale houses  
  Accommodation: Villa accommodation. 3 persons to share plus caravan  
   
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224

 

Family/ Organization:

Paul and Maya from the Netherlands and Austria are two grown up people we decided to move with their 28 Siberian Huskies to unspoilt land in the forest mountains of Swedish Lappland. We started a company in tourism an that specialize in tourism for people withdogs.

 

  
  Country: Sweden  
  Languages spoken: English, German, French  
  Area: Swedish Lapland  
  Work on offer: We are looking for people who can help us with building blockhouses, cleaning the wood ,cutting wood, painting, building alot of repair work, garden work growing vegetables and so on. We are working together and live about 15km from each other so it is possible for friends to work each on one of our places  
  Accommodation: Spare room available  
   
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223

 

Family/ Organization:

Carol Marriot

Small 20 acre organic farm wooded and prairie nature trails, Equine Assisted Learning,, meditation organic gardening, old barn restoration, fence building, tree planting cozy furnished country bedrooms, friendly dogs, great organic food ,close to amenities parkland fishing and boating great for artists writers and nature.lovers

 

  
  Country: Canada  
  Languages spoken: English and minimal French  
  Area: Humboldt Saskatchewan  
  Work on offer: Organic gardening painting barn restoration fencing landscaping treeplanting carpentry horse care and various other creative options such as building a straw insulated artist or writers cabin or cob buildings.Bring your creative spirit. Tools supplied.  
  Accommodation: 4 cozy country bedrooms 2 double beds 1 queen and twin or 1 kingsize. Camping spaces optional.  
   
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222

 

Family/ Organization:

 Lynn and Darryl Plumb. Married couple with grown up children.  
  Country: Australia  
  Languages spoken: English  
  Area: Tasmania  
  Work on offer: Assistance to help clear weeds  
  Accommodation: 2 spare rooms  
   
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