Tiny community living and kombucha brewing in a jungle house, Langkawi, Malaysia

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  Description

  Please send us a message with ATTN if you match a few of these criteria:
  1) A natural leader.
  2) a big foodie and being in the kitchen.
  3) a gardener, landscaping planner.
  4) can stay for 1 month and longer.
  5) a plumber
  6) a carpenter/interior designer.
  7) an artist who can paint murals.
  8) able to organise wellness & sports programs.
  9) confident with driving a car
  10) good at planning and organising.
  11) somebody who can write guidebooks, instruction, manual.
  12) Scribe : have an amazing handwriting.
  
  Just send us a message if you think we really can't overlook your profile.
  
  Before we start, I recommend that you reconsider sending us a message if you:
  
  1) Have dietary restrictions or limited food preference — There are limited choices of vegan, vegetarian foods in Langkawi. We often cook meat and local seafood. The food we cook at home is not spicy unless everybody can tolerate heat. Most local food is spicy so some spice tolerance is needed. We also encourage volunteers to be open to explore local food.
  2) Can't drive car or ride a motorcycle — We don't mind if you don't need to go anywhere much or plan to use Grab app to go around. Volunteers should be more proactive with exploring the island at their free time. Some days we might be too busy for us to take volunteers out for a tour. If you're lucky, there are other volunteers who can drive but better if you can.
  3) Can't speak okay English — Yes there is a French speaker in the house, but she is not available all the time. I can usually understand people who speak a little English with a bit of difficulty but if you don't speak English, you might have a hard time.
  4) Can't stay for 2 weeks minimum. We also prefer volunteers who can stay for a whole month and longer.
  5) You don't have particular skills we need listed below, and don't like doing mundane work/cleaning.
  
  Salam and Hello.
  
  I'm Syed and my wife Laurine and I recently started up our new life in a quiet bungalow inside the jungle in Langkawi Island. The project is close to Kuah Town, and about 30-45 mins drive to the other parts of the island, so we are at the centre of the island. We have access to many restaurants, supermarkets, beaches and bars. We are able to host 3-4 volunteers at a time either 3 solo or 2 solo and 1 couple/friends.
  
  We are two young simple people with a cat named Kitty. I'm originally from Kuala Lumpur and moved to Langkawi 4 years ago. I run a small kombucha business. Laurine is from France. She is a French teacher online and writes articles. We are happy to host fellow travellers in exchange for fair work and make it a great experience for everybody. We mainly need some help with keeping our house in order for everybody to live comfortably, helping with kombucha-related tasks half the week, and other projects to build or repair according to volunteer specialisation. Generally we are looking for people who can work independently as we also have our work. We will brief you on the tasks or problem for you to solve and you mobilise the people and let me know what you need. With the extra hand, we want to realise our dream to grow our little homestead while steadily producing Kombucha and hosting an amazing volunteer experience.
  
  We have the space that can potentially be set up to encourage more growth in health, relaxation and wellbeing, which we are interested in, would be nice to build a program together of daily stretching and fitness to encourage a healthy environment small steps at a time.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Projets artistiques

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  S’occuper des animaux

  Aide dans une ferme

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison

  Entretien général
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  Living in a quiet jungle can be a therapeutic experience, it's a good time and place to engage in simple activities and recharge your batteries. You will definitely meet interesting people who will teach you something meaningful here in Langkawi. Once a week or so, we will have cultural activities like visiting places, cooking local cuisine, workshops, beach time, etc. We love fermenting things and making exploring new ingredients. You get to make your own set of custom flavour kombucha or other fermented products while exploring the art of fermentation with us. Cooking is our favourite activity. You get to see and experience Malaysian food from the comfort of our kitchen, we are more than happy to share some recipes and techniques.
  
  We are also trying to do more light exercises in the morning, and Laurine loves leading Chi Gong sessions.

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  Aide

  Generally, Monday to wednesday, most volunteers work on tasks together, and the rest of the week, volunteers work individual tasks and projects at their time.
  
  Depending on your skills, your schedule will look different. We work hard and play hard, and of course there will be plenty of time to enjoy and make beautiful memories in the scenic Langkawi.
  
  Rough Weekly Routine looks like this :
  
  Mondays : Clean used bottles & grocery shopping.
  Tuesdays : Bottling of kombucha, First Fermentation
  Wednesday : Labelling & Housekeeping
  Thursday : House cleaning & maintenance - sweep, mop, arrange, fix
  Friday : Traditional family lunch, workshop, digital work.
  Weekends Off : Volunteers are free to explore Langkawi, stay in and chill or join adventures we plan.

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  Langues parlées

  Anglais: Courant
  Français: Courant
  Malay: Courant
  Espagnol: Débutant

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  Hébergement

  You will stay in the jungle house dorm room, sleeping in either one of the two bunk beds with shared bathroom. Within the dorm room, there is a small room with a queen bed for solo or couple. We have a porch for hanging out, big garden, shared living room with Google ChromeCast TV, desks for study/work and a full kitchen with almost everything you need.
  
  Meals are mostly provided. We cater for lunch and dinner on weekdays and either buy/eat out on weekends. For dinner, past volunteers prefer to eat lefover from lunch,cook for themselves, skip dinner, snack, go out, or order food from Grab, so there is many options.
  
  For cooking, provide rice, cooking oil, seasoning ingredients, eggs, white bread, rice, spices and many more for everybody to use anytime (list provided).
  
  Volunteers would usually prepare their own breakfast with provided ingredients. On weekdays we mostly cook. Once or twice a week, volunteers can also prepare meals if they have interesting ideas. So we are flexible, but there is always food.

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  Autres infos...

  Volunteers are free to use our motorcycle, petrol receipts are claimable. Our car is also available when we are not using it. If there is not enough vehicle, it is also very cheap to rent a motorcycle, about RM250-RM350 monthly, and a car for RM600. Alternatively, volunteers can use Grab E-hailing services app for a reasonable price.
  
  We encourage our volunteer guests to explore the island and surrounding, sample new foods and enjoy their time here. We will share with you the best of Langkawi.
  
  On our free time, we like to visit local hang out spots, eat at our favourite restaurants, watch movies and play music and many more. We like a good adventure like hiking, visiting neighbouring islands and would love to share with you our favourite escapes. We love cooking good food in our complete kitchen, especially Malay & South-East Asian food. So volunteers are welcome to join us whenever they like.

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  Informations complémentaires

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    Accès Internet

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    Accès Internet limité

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    Nous avons des animaux

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    Nous sommes fumeurs

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    Familles bienvenues

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  Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

  We have desks, 5G WIFI and a good work-from-home culture as we all work from home.

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  Plenty parking space. If you prefer with camping with your own gears, we have the garden space. Nice place to hang hammocks too.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Plus de 2

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  Nombre d'heures attendues

  Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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