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 40,000+ active hosts in over 180 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?

Workawayers 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. Hosts asking for help with business activities can also offer paid positions.

Step 1: Join the Community

Step 2: Make Friends and Chat

Step 3: Receive travellers, to help and learn

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Promoting Volunteering, Family Exchanges, Homestays, Farmstays, Working Holidays, Travel Buddies, Language Learning and Cultural Exchange.

Connect, help & stay with 40000+ hosts from 177 countries (Read more...)

Workaway.info is a site set up to promote fair exchange and friendship as well as volunteering and work opportunities. Connecting culture seekers, budget travellers and language learners with families, individuals or organisations that are looking for help with a range of varied and interesting activities. Find and contact other like minded travellers across the globe.

Our philosophy is simple:

A few hours honest help per day in exchange for food & accommodation and an opportunity to meet others. Learn about local lifestyles and communities, with friendly hosts in varying situations and surroundings. We also promote paid work positions for hosts looking for extra help with their businesses.

Our aims are:

To promote cultural understanding between different peoples and lands throughout the world.
To enable those travelling on a limited budget to fully appreciate living in a foreign environment.
To promote the exchange between people from different nationalities, and give a chance for Workawayers 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 projects around the world opportunities to receive support from skilled helpers allowing a real and immediate impact on their ventures.
To enable travellers to find paid positions to help them to continue to fund their travels.
To enable like-minded travellers to connect and meet, wherever they are in the world.

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. They are looking to welcome travellers and people from different cultures into their homes to exchange ideas and help. Some can offer paid work opportunities too resulting in a huge range of different fields to choose from; Language learning, pet sitting, house sitting, from building to babysitting and shopping to shearing, Workaway.info aims to introduce culture seekers, travellers and language learners to like minded hosts and friends without having to pay expensive agency fees.

We also offer the possibility to connect with thousands of travellers wherever you are in the world. To share, connect and learn together.