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Description
Our nature paradise & charity home office is and small backpacker type / farmhouse near Lawrencetown Beach on a lake & farmland. As a base for our international children's aid society the farmhouse is used as a stay over for adventures which we use to create an income for our aid projects overseas.
My name is Sunyata, an international children's aid & animal rescue worker. Volunteers help with the old family farm house & yard, painting, garden & organizing tasks, help with rescue pets, sort donations for international children's aid & sometimes jewellery fixing. I am happy to show the area and introduce to new friends.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Art Projects
Language practice
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Help around the house
General Maintenance
House sitting
Interests
Vegetarian or vegan
Sustainability
Self development
Pets
Farming
Events & social
Culture
Charity work
Writing
Plant care
Music
Gardening
DIY & crafts
Animals
Outdoor activities
Nature
Hiking
Dancing
Beach
Camping
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
This is a best location to be close to surf, sea and sky. You will love nature. You can learn English, meet new friends and learn about this areas of rural surf community of Eastern Canada. NOVA SCOTIA. We have had travelers and volunteers from all over the world come here. I have also hosted many international volunteers while working in South Africa, Dominican & Sri Lanka.
Help
While enjoying our farm house & community, I'm looking for someone to help 4-5 days a week for about 4 hours a day.
Main tasks are helping with pets, sort donations for childrens aid, some times keeping home tidy when needed, create 1st aid kits & workshop materials while also organizing extra storage space, light gardening several days a week , 2-3 small painting projects, helping with tasks that create an income to help our childrens & animal rescue charity, mow at least once a week, cuddling and sometimes feeding the cats Gismo, & walking the a small cuddly Dominican rescue dog Peppers.
Help organizing or designing the volunteer bedroom and living and hang out spaces.
You can help with trails in the forest (if you like) & gathering brush for bonfires but nothing intense. I will help start you off on most tasks but they are mostly independent as I manage the bnb, teach & charity managment.
House sitting on days I'm away is often needed to make sure cats dog and occasional rescue animal are cared for.
All tasks are very flexible & can be spread out to leave room for lots of surfing, hiking, biking and bonfires with other guests.
We could also use someone who likes to be creatively handy. This would entail fixing old doors, some painting, yard work, forest trail making, mowing and gardening. Also helping with pup and cats from time to time. If you love the outdoors, nature and can make something out of nothing being creative this could be a forfilling odd jobs gig for you.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Beginner
Accommodation
Farmhouse in rural beach & forest area. Volunteer will have 1 private room in the travelers section of my home(with small kitchenette), 2 bathrooms. I live in the front private section. A few times a week we can share main meals in the main farmhouse kitchen. This is not an allboard workaway as we don't provide main meals but there will be some basic vegetarian items and condiments you can use in your kitchenette room. You are welcome to join guests surfing or biking or come with me on trips to town for shopping once a week for you to buy your main food, extras and drinks.
Eating out, drinks alcohol is also the volunteers responsibility so please bring on arrival. Please replace any alcohol before you leave if you share with anyone in the house.
You also have your own entrance apart from main house. When main house is used for communal meals and house sitting, pet sitting workaways help with home clean up.
What else ...
Most of our volunteers are young adventures on a gap year. During time off you might enjoy surfing in one of the best surf spots in Eastern Canada, Lawrencetown Beach. Also the house is surrounded by lakes and trails. The TransCanada trail is 5 min walk away and beach 7 min walk. There is a cafe & small shops 20 min walk away.
There are no bus so you can join when I go to town shopping once a week so you can buy what you need but I will provide you with some basic vegetarian items for your kitchenette ( but this is not an all meal full stay). There is no liquor store near us so please plan ahead to bring any wine or beer as we do not provide this, only some basic food to add to what you bring.
You can use the bike to get around the area. There are surf rentals down the street.
If the timing works between my various jobs I will pick you up in town and drop you back at the agreed spot so you can travel onward.Or you can get dropped off or take an ubar to our location near Lawrencetown Beach.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
Of you have a camper van you can park in our garden across the street and use the guest bathrooms. You are also welcome to camp in our massive yard if you like.
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Feedback (5)
I loved our meals together, bonfires, we also went to see a concert, to her friend’s birthday,… I could meet… read more
She also helepd with our base, garden and animal… read more
Sunyata kindly accepted my request literally last minute and I'm so grateful she did. Sunyata is a fantastic host as well as a friend and I had the best time helping, exploring, learning and… read more
She is a most hard working, loyal, dedicated and trust worthy volunteer who loves animals.
She came when I was totally overwhelmed with my charity work,… read more
I stayed for 5 weeks. She was super chill. Always down for a break, show me around or bring me over to her friends'. I felt very welcomed.
There wasn't really a schedule set as long as all the tasks were done.
I mainly helped her with reorganising the rooms and sorting all kind of things and did some… read more
She was so helpful, independent, extreamly clean, organized and easy to live with.
She house sat the animals kindly and very responsible.
She also took on organizing and renovation/ decorating of our farmhouse with such care & detail.
For the children's charity she sorted and labelled all the… read more
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I loved our meals together, bonfires, we also went to see a concert, to her friend’s birthday,… I could meet… read more
She also helepd with our base, garden and animal… read more
Sunyata kindly accepted my request literally last minute and I'm so grateful she did. Sunyata is a fantastic host as well as a friend and I had the best time helping, exploring, learning and… read more
She is a most hard working, loyal, dedicated and trust worthy volunteer who loves animals.
She came when I was totally overwhelmed with my charity work,… read more
I stayed for 5 weeks. She was super chill. Always down for a break, show me around or bring me over to her friends'. I felt very welcomed.
There wasn't really a schedule set as long as all the tasks were done.
I mainly helped her with reorganising the rooms and sorting all kind of things and did some… read more
She was so helpful, independent, extreamly clean, organized and easy to live with.
She house sat the animals kindly and very responsible.
She also took on organizing and renovation/ decorating of our farmhouse with such care & detail.
For the children's charity she sorted and labelled all the… read more
She can take on projects as a team and alone and is very good with animals.… read more
The work I did was very diverse, from sorting donations to painting the outside deck. I loved knowing that I was helping Sunny's charity by doing these… read more
