How Workaway works...

Workawayers typically are interested in cultural exchange and learning and will help out for a few hours a day in exchange for food and accommodation, with visits lasting anywhere from a few days to a few months.

Travel cheaply and stay for free, whilst making a difference to the communities you visit. Put your existing skills to good use, or try something new you‘d never normally get to do and pick up new skills along the way.

There is an ever growing list of 1000s of active hosts in over 155 countries offering all kinds of places to stay.

Step 1: Join the Community

Step 2: Make Friends and Chat

Step 3: Visit and Integrate

Whether you are interested in cultural exchange and learning, need help within a family environment, a specific project, or another pair of hands on an ongoing basis, if you have extra space and are interested in meeting new people from all over the world then why not invite people to come and help via Workaway?

Volunteers come from all sorts of backgrounds and bring with them a variety of abilities and skills. Typical exchanges might involve helping with an eco-building project, language learning and practice, child-minding, helping in the garden, helping with animals, web design and promotion, the list is endless.

Step 1: Join the Community

Step 2: Make Friends and Chat

Step 3: Receive travellers, to help and learn

The world's leading community for volunteering, working and cultural exchange

Stay, help and connect with over 30000 active hosts from 170 countries! Share your culture, skills and languages with local communities, projects and families.

Our philosophy is simple:

A few hours honest help per day in exchange for food and accommodation and an opportunity to learn about the local lifestyle and community, with friendly hosts in varying situations and surroundings. We also promote paid work positions for hosts looking for extra help with their business.

Our aims are:

To promote cultural understanding between different peoples and lands throughout the world.
To enable people travelling on a limited budget to fully appreciate living and working in a foreign environment.
To promote the exchange between people from different nationalities, and give a chance for volunteers to contribute to a cause.
To enable language learners to experience different countries and immerse themselves in their target language whilst living abroad.
To give opportunity to projects around the world to receive support from skilled volunteers and have a real and immediate impact on their projects
To enable travellers to find paid positions to help them to continue to fund their travels

How Workaway.info works:

Workaway.info holds a database of families, individuals or organisations in an extensive range of different countries who have registered with us and are looking for volunteer help in a huge range of different fields. From painting to planting, building to babysitting and shopping to shearing, Workaway.info aims to introduce working travellers and language learners to like minded hosts, without having to pay expensive agency fees. Our hosts are based in many different countries with more and more signing up every day. So whether you are planning that big trip to Australia, thinking of taking a year to do Europe or want to immerse yourself in South American culture, Workaway is the answer for low cost travel!