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Hello and Thanks for thinking in us! that make us proud! Our dream it's also yours!
🔎 Who We Are?
We are Camilla 40 (Italy) and Rodrigo 42 (Chile), along with our daughters Emma 6 and Rosa 2. We live amidst olive groves in Calatafimi Segesta (Trapani), Sicily. Six years ago, we embarked on this dream of rural life, restoring abandoned lands and building our home and small family project.
🙌 Why Are We Looking for Volunteers?
We want to share this lifestyle with people who value cultural exchange, teamwork, and nature. We seek individuals who wish to contribute with their hands, ideas, and positive energy, while also gaining a unique experience of Sicily.
🚩 IMPORTANT:
- Minimum Stay: 2 weeks => Maximum: 4 weeks.
- Only couples or friends (single applicants will be considered on a case-by-case basis).
- The house may be shared among 4 people.
- Arrival and departure should be organized independently to Calatafimi Segesta, Trapani. From there, we can arrange pickup (depending on time and availability).
- No pets allowed.
🏠 Accommodation:
Private house amidst the olive trees with kitchen, bathroom, and hot water (30-minute walk from Bosco Emma through mountain trails).
🍽️ Meals:
3 meals a day. We love sharing meals, conversing, and enjoying good homemade food (lunch is generally shared together).
🌳 Activities:
- Maintenance of green spaces and vegetable garden.
- Small carpentry projects, improving structures, etc.
- Animal care (donkeys, sheep, chickens).
- General help with farm life, house, and general cleaning.
📚 We are very interested if you have or want to teach us any skills that could improve or beautify our project. Together we can realize your idea (sewing, construction, design, web, marketing, planting, sowing, irrigation, etc.).
🌍 Tourism and Nature:
Our home is close to many incredible places: Segesta Thermal Baths, Segesta Temple and Theater, Castellammare del Golfo, Scopello beaches, Zingaro Reserve, Erice, Trapani, Palermo, among others. You can make the most of your free time according to your preferences!
Applicant Questionnaire (Please copy, complete this questionnaire, and send it)
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1- Languages spoken:
2- Available dates:
3- Transportation you will use to arrive:
4- Special skills (carpentry, gardening, cooking, etc.):
5- Dietary or health restrictions:
6- Previous experiences in volunteering or rural life:
7- Why do you think you can help us in our project?
8-Something we should know about you?
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
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👥 How many people can come? Only couples or friends. (Maximum 4 per house / Single applicants will be considered on a case-by-case basis).
🚗 How do I get there? You must arrive independently at Calatafimi Segesta, Trapani. We can coordinate pickup in the town.
🌳 What are the specific tasks? Tasks are adapted to the current needs and your skills. We always explain them beforehand and work as a team.
🛌 What should I bring? Work clothes, comfortable shoes, sun protection, hat, sunglasses, willingness to learn, and good vibes!
🌟 We look forward to building together a space of respect, nature, and good times!
Rodrigo & Camilla
Emma & Rosa
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Interests
Technology
Sustainability
Self development
Events & social
Plant care
Gardening
Drawing & painting
DIY & crafts
Carpentry
Cooking & food
Animals
Architecture
Winter sports
Water sports
Sailing / Boating
Outdoor activities
Hiking
Mountain
Nature
Camping
Cycling
Beach
Adventure sports
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
if we love traveling it’s also because we love to share end eating. And that's by the hand of a good meal sharing the table. And for us it’s where we learn more. And will be glad to share our and yours experiences with a glass of wine (made in our farm).
Like us, we hope that you are interested in learning so will be more than happy to help you and teach you want we can (italian food, chilean could be our special, but in our road trip throw america we also learn some special plates.
About Sicilia, in particular this part of the island, we know it very well. Camilla have been coming in seen she was little. So all of the secrets and the special places we share it with you.
If you are looking to improve your Italian, Spanish ore even english will be happy to practice (it’s always good for all).
Help
The help is not hard!
We welcome help to tidy our land, simple help in the care of the house and gardening
If you know about building and eco-solution you are really welcome.
The help can change every day, from cleaning the farm to paint a wall, planting some plants, to restyling some forniture, if you are good in something better if not we try to teach you or give you the tasks more appropriate about your capacity.
Always we ask you an help in the maintenance of the common spaces of the house and to ma rain clean your accommodation
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
Italian: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
Always, we have been traveling around the world. We hope that one day we could know more countrys than today. doing this it's esencial to know more that one language, so that's why practicing it's very important for us, so if you wan't to make the interchange it's perfecto for us. (What we can teach Spanish, English & Italian... what we can learn/talk maybe a little of french.)
Accommodation
Thiny house closed to our house with a doble and and eventually an individual bed. we all share the same bathroom and the common spaces of the house. The house is in the middle of the countryside, whit a magnificent view of Segesta temple. Here you can relax, no noise and only nature.
The house is located between Castellammare and Calatafimi.
Will offer you all the principals meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
We can also go and pick you up at the bus or train station (Calatafimi, Alcamo or Castellammare).
Also we like going to the beach where you can go with us and make some touristic tours.
If you need we can also take you to the town.trying to coordinate with our disponibility.
Remember that we are far from the town (more then 45 minutes walking)
What else ...
segesta, thermals, castellammare del golfo, calatafimi, san vito lo capo, climbing, paragliding, sailing, kayaking, bars, trekking, etc...
If it's possible we can go with you.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
Space for parking camper vans
At the time, different people have arrive with their campers, but we have to notify to you that we are in a dirty road and not for all is easy to drive up it. We have different places to park in our project we hope one that to have a perfect place were to park, we did a roadtrip from USA to panama with a motorhome so we know perfect what you need and what you are looking for.
Can possibly accept pets
Depends on any case... At the time, one couple came with their dog and we never have any problem, but we also have a dog and some cats, in the hill there are also other dogs that run free. (we live in a "farm" so if the pet make complications with the other animals... we don't want it)
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Feedback (15)
They help us in different mansions, always with good proposal.
They are really friendly and respectful people.
We recommend them at 100%
Staying in a cozy camper van provided us with a unique perspective on… read more
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They help us in different mansions, always with good proposal.
They are really friendly and respectful people.
We recommend them at 100%
Staying in a cozy camper van provided us with a unique perspective on… read more
In August me and my friend Sophia spent 3 beautiful weeks at Camilla and Rodrigo's place. The land is magical, located on top of a hill, with an exuberant view of the beautiful Sicily (you can see the sea from up there). Every day I had coffee or just lay in the hammock admiring that view (I miss that!).
The work was done every… read more
Our little daughter was really happy to have dinner and play with their two lovely kids.
We stood at a nice camping spot with a beautiful view over the valley. In the morning the kids could help with the animals, then we were helping with… read more
She is really a nice person, friendly and respectous.
The most important thing, after the first instruction she can manage perfectly by herself the work. And always making more than we aspected from her.
She also can cook really well! we are very happy to have host Charlotte.
Giuliano Catarina e Nino sono davvero simpatici, interessanti e disponibili.
Dalla prima sera a cena, la loro dialettica ironica ci ha coinvolti ed intrattenuti, le loro storie e la curiosità per le nostre… read more
L’incontro e la conoscenza di Camilla, di Rodrigo e della piccola Emma, e la condivisione dei 10 giorni trascorsi come loro ospiti, è Workaway.
E poi, il sostegno reciproco in tutto ciò… read more
We came as volunteers but left as friends! You can learn a lot from Camilla and Rodrigo! Emma is a cutest little girl.
We were helping mostly with olives, some cleaning but we also helped to don Franco, their first neighbor. He was also very interesting and… read more
we recommended them
thanks for all!
We stayed with our Campervan for three weeks and would everybody recommend to go there. The place is beautiful. You stand with your van on a mountain for yourselve, watch the 2500 years old temple of segesta and hang your hammock… read more
Nos ayudo en El campo Como en la casa, ademas de ser una muy buena compania .
Esperamos verla pronto!
Son lo más súper compañeros y buena onda .
Gracias por los días compartidos, fue una experiencia muy buena para mi.
Los chicos son viajeros me contaron sus anécdotas y me recibieron enseguida en su casa .
Espero volver a verlos muy pronto
Un beso a todos
He's en entusiastic and interesting boy, he works hard.
