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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. |
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| 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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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 |
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| 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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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. |
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| 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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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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Bilingual school in Central America. Our aim is to provide a bilingual education for poor and under priviledged children |
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| 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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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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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.
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| 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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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. |
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| 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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Doug Treasure Middle aged couple who run sheep, cattle and horses on different properties. |
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| 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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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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Simone Kempf I live with my 2 kids in a beachside house in Southern Spain. |
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| 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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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 |
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| 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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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
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| 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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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. |
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| 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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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. |
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| 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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Wolf Marbach. We run a retreat and seminar centre located on a mostly wild piece of land. Our guests are mostly spiritual. |
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| 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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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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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.
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| 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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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
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| 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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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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Patsy and Dave Mitchell. Both working with grown up kids. |
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| Country: | Australia | ||
| Languages spoken: | English | ||
| Area: | Mid-North Coast | ||
| Work on offer: | General house work and gardening | ||
| Accommodation: | Spare room or camping in garden if you prefer. | ||
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Lisa & Thomas Atkinson We are a young family situated on a beef cattle property in Far North Queensland. Myself, my husband and our 10 month old son live on the property, which is situated nearby a large swamp. There is amazing scenery and birdlife surrounding us. We are an easy going family, looking for someone to assist in our daily duties.
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| Country: | Australia | ||
| Languages spoken: | English | ||
| Area: | Mount Garnet, Far North Queensland | ||
| Work on offer: | Gardening, landscaping, assistance with fencing and mustering and general maintenance on the property. A knowledge of or interest in cattle and horses would be beneficial, but not essential. | ||
| Accommodation: | Quarters, including own bathroom and private room. | ||
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Will, Bachelor farmer in Waitomo district in an old style home. 4 km to Piopio town & bus stop will pickup. 30 km to Te Kuiti. Must have respect for each others privacy but sociable and easy going. Enjoy conversation and a laugh. Bicycle and helmet available for use, and to check internet. Occasionally travel to sheep and cattle sales in nearby towns and to shops. |
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| Country: | New Zealand | ||
| Languages spoken: | English | ||
| Area: | Te Kuit | ||
| Work on offer: | Sheep and cattle farm. Cleaning, painting, weed control, pruning, firewood, house help, moving and droving stock, building & repairs, handy with hammer and saw ? ? No skills needed, just a good heart and mostly working alongside me out on the farm. | ||
| Accommodation: | Spare room available, garden for camping etc single bed in spare room | ||
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Victoria and Jeremy Nichols. We live on a rural retreat set on 50 acres. We overlook Akaroa harbour only 1500m from the centre of the town. We specialise in group bookings such as Weddings, Birthdays, Corporate retreats also offering activities such as paintball, Archery, Clay bird shooting.We are a family run business with 3 young children. Stay for a couple of weeks or months. Looking for two people or single person. |
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| Country: | New Zealand. | ||
| Languages spoken: | English | ||
| Area: | Akaroa | ||
| Work on offer: | We need help with the day to day running and looking after of the grounds, feeding the animals cleaning the accommodation help running the activitie. Everyday is different. We like your time to be fun and we realise you are on holiday 5 hours per day with a day off Food +money per person per week. | ||
| Accommodation: | Fully self contained apartment with view of the harbour. | ||
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Susana Bateson. Mature female artist, three bedroom home on seven acres 40 kms from town.Near Grampians, bushwalking and big and little deserts. Will collect from bus and return if required. | |
| Country: | Australia | ||
| Languages spoken: | English | ||
| Area: | Victoria | ||
| Work on offer: | Work on organic strawbale studio | ||
| Accommodation: | Spare room in home with bathroom. | ||
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Pearl North. Private home. | |
| Country: | Australia | ||
| Languages spoken: | English | ||
| Area: | Hervey Bay queensland | ||
| Work on offer: | Garden Work. House painting. General odd jobs | ||
| Accommodation: | Spare room | ||
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Rachel and Percival. Coorbella is a beautifullly restored home set in the peaceful Byron Bay hinterland. Surrounded by rainforest, bush and giant fig trees the property has mountain stream, swimming hole, veg garden, pool, and amazing views. |
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| Country: | Australia | ||
| Languages spoken: | English | ||
| Area: | Byron Bay | ||
| Work on offer: | General housekeeping duties. are cleaning, laundry cooking, grocery shopping, small errands, admin, vegetable gardening, weeding ,building help ,with general property maintanenance such as painting ,clearing land fixing fences. We will be getting two horses and two ducks for the pond in the months to come. Work will depend on skills ability and experience | ||
| Accommodation: | Self contained studio or caravan or caravan for couple. | ||
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Cath and Evan Mcmoody. A working couple whose children have all just left. We want to enjoy the company of others who love to travel like us. | |
| Country: | Australia | ||
| Languages spoken: | English and some French | ||
| Area: | Coffs harbour | ||
| Work on offer: | General gardening, House painting There is heaps to do and not enough time to do it so the work will depend on what interests our guest | ||
| Accommodation: | Spare room | ||
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Gillian. Establishing a home based overnight horse boarding establishment. Owner is employed locally and doing this in spare time. | |
| Country: | USA | ||
| Languages spoken: | English | ||
| Area: | Colorado | ||
| Work on offer: | Horses are destructive.! Restraining, fencing,installing new ones, building shelters, tree trimming, planting painting, rough carpentry, weed control.. Working with horses optional | ||
| Accommodation: | Master bedroom with attatched bathroom. | ||
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Jane and Brian Ransfield. We are a married couple. We are looking for someone hard working , honest and interesting to come and stay and work. | |
| Country: | New Zealand | ||
| Languages spoken: | English | ||
| Area: | Wellington | ||
| Work on offer: | We have a big garden that needs maintaining esp need help with tree cutting. I also need help with house keeping. We live a few minutes drive away from beautiful Wellington. | ||
| Accommodation: | Spare room | ||
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Sarah Ambrose. I´m a single Mum with 2 teenage boys and a large house in the middle of one hectare of land. The house is Spanish with English tV and a pool.. We have 4 dogs, 1 cat and a horse. We are a friendly fun household and easy going. | |
| Country: | Spain | ||
| Languages spoken: | English, Spanish, Catalan | ||
| Area: | Catalunya | ||
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I´m looking for some help around the house and garden mainly cleaning and tidying washing and shopping cooking a perhaps some small decorating jobs. I unfortunately have a very bad back and am under going treatment.. I´m not looking for hours of help and am flexible with the hours. One or two people or perhaps a single parent. Animals welcome. |
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Herault Anik | |
| Country: | France | ||
| Languages spoken: | English and Spanish | ||
| Area: | Atlantic coast | ||
| Work on offer: | Gardenning, cleaning housework | ||
| Accommodation: | Comfortable large room with bathroom | ||
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Lisa Payne. Fun, friendly Australian family. Mum and 3 school aged kids. | |
| Country: | Australia | ||
| Languages spoken: | English | ||
| Area: | Perth Western Australia. | ||
| Work on offer: | House keeping, baby sitting, Occasional gardening. Someone willing to be part of our family | ||
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Matt and Kym Simmons. We are a family run cattle station in NW Queensland. We have a property near Julia Creek where we fatten weaners sent down from Normanton. | |
| Country: | Australia | ||
| Languages spoken: | English | ||
| Area: | Queensland | ||
| Work on offer: | During mustering season we are busy mustering and branding weaners, drafting cattle. For the rest of the time we keep busy with general farmwork, gardening , checking cattle and waters. We use motorbikes not horses. We also have some goats, chooks, cats , adog and somtimes poddy calves which need daily feeding. | ||
| Accommodation: | Spare room | ||
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Richard and Yvette. We are family of four who immigrated recently to Australia. | |
| Country: | Australia | ||
| Languages spoken: | Afikaans, Dutch, English | ||
| Area: | NSW | ||
| Work on offer: | I am looking for a responsible and caring nanny for my two boys. | ||
| Accommodation: | spare room | ||
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Gunilla. We are a family of four Mother, Father, two daughters who have diabetes. Two dogs. We have small family kennel. | |
| Country: | Sweden | ||
| Languages spoken: | Swedish, English, French, Spanish | ||
| Area: | Dhalland | ||
| Work on offer: | We need a volunteer to help out with taking care of the dogs, house hold work and help with the children. You have to be non smoker Eu citizen, interested in health issues, no allergies. | ||
| Accommodation: | own roon in our apartment. | ||
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Chrissie. We run a small agritourismo with 3 cottages that we rent out and we also manage a number of other properties in the area. We are an English, Australian couple in early 30s with a little girl and baby on the way. | |
| Country: | Italy | ||
| Languages spoken: | English, Italian | ||
| Area: | Umbria | ||