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Surrounded by the hilly forest of Fruška gora and close to the city of Novi Sad, Serbia, our project is an intentional community in its beginnings.
As this year brings new ideas to be put into practice, we are happy to Šumska for volunteering again, and welcome you on board :)
We are a family-based group of 7 people of different ages, who live and work together while creating a regenerative space, that hosts guests and events around eco-tourism, sustainability and regenerative practices, education, nutrition, art, and culture. The community and the space is named Šumska.
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Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You will have the chance to:
Develop new skills in building with natural materials (earth architecture), see and learn about sustainable and regenerative practices, experience community living, practice your listening and speaking in diverse languages, experience the school led together with children, have time to play, rest, connect to nature of the surrounding forest, experience the power of team-work, meet like-minded people and start new connections, share meals and just feel into the experience itself.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
Here you can find more details about the current teams and tasks that we have:
1. Building team
2. Hospitality team
3. Forest school team
BUILDING TEAM
This year we are continuing to build another two earth homes, and preparing the space for forest school.
All building is done by the principles of earth architecture and natural building.
We are looking for people who are interested in natural building and have some practical experience with the tools and construction to help us out in building, and maintaining the place.
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HOSPITALITY TEAM
Besides the construction, we have opened our home to guests, travelers and event participants.
We could use help in preparing the space for guests - like cleaning, helping in the kitchen, gardening and watering the plants...
FOREST SCHOOL TEAM
We started the forest school project 2 years ago, for the children (around 3 - 10 year-olds) and this year we continue with the activities in nature with the little ones!
We are looking for a person who loves being with children in nature and who are passionate about natural learning, self-directed, child-led education and pedagogy, who would like to help take care of them and enrich the program with diverse activities outdoors.
The minimum stay for the Forest school team is 2 months (its possible and preferred if you can stay longer).
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Serbian: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
Accommodation from around May - September is in the tents, in the camping area of our garden.
Tents and mattresses can be provided if you don’t have one.
Outside showers and compost toilets are available on-site, as well as the internet connection.
Accommodation from around October - April, on colder days, is in one of our homes.
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We love eating together!
All participants are welcome to eat together with us for all meals.
Food is diverse, healthy, tasty, and plant-based ( vegan ), and is made mainly by Goga, our food chef, with the help of family and volunteers.
What else ...
OPEN SPACE
After the work hours and on the non-working days the space is open for everyone who wishes to share something they love doing with the others, be it a skill, a workshop, music, dance, a talk, a walk, movement, silent sitting, creating art, seeing a movie.... Here we all create our time together!
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
Can possibly accept pets
Your animal friends need to be friendly with other dogs, cats and kids
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 5 hours a day / 5 days week
Feedback (12)
Everything here is beautiful and tasteful. Goga cooks amazingly. Goran knows how to set a task clearly and you immediately want to perform it well.
Iva always helps and happily hugs you. A house, a festival and any project of this family is always a super idea filled with warmth.
We were a family, with… read more
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Everything here is beautiful and tasteful. Goga cooks amazingly. Goran knows how to set a task clearly and you immediately want to perform it well.
Iva always helps and happily hugs you. A house, a festival and any project of this family is always a super idea filled with warmth.
We were a family, with… read more
He is smart, fun and very practical. He worked diverse tasks in our place, from working with wood and making furniture, to building the walls of our summer kitchen using methods related to earth architecture.
He has a great humor and is really easy going.
Totally recommended!
Sending love… read more
Iva and her family welcomed and made us feel as if we were part of their family. They are creative, open-minded, compassionate, fun people who from who you can learn a lot of things. You will never feel judged or lonely here.
This place is located on mountain Fruska gora, which is a national park, and the nature is… read more
Architects by their profession, but interested in more ecological ways of construction, and so they arrived to check out our project and join a volunteering weekend action.
Thank you for joining us, this summer at least for a little while..
Hope to meet you again, on some future project of natural construction!
Iva & the… read more
She is patient and playful with the kids, outgoing and considerate.
It was really beautiful to have her with us!
And I hope our roads will cross again!
Thank you, Hannah 😊
He is a kind and considerate person with great social capacities and a big heart.
Always happy to be there and help where it is needed, be it mixing mud and straw, helping in the kitchen or doing some computer stuff!
Happy to have met you, dear man, and hope our paths will cross again :)
The work we were doing was mostly… read more
both of them are so sensitive in the other person's perspectives and needs, and therefore great team-players and important part of any human-made groups, teams, family.
They easily puts themselves in the role of collaborator or interlocutor..diligent and dedicated to all kinds of work - from… read more
Even though this was his first encounter with some, more alternative lifestyles - with blant-based… read more
A person of exceptionally good qualities - Intelligent, hardworking, practical and good-hearted.
Although very unobtrusive with his character, his jokes and cheerfulness give the fundaments to the community of people or a team. He has extensive practical knowledge in various fields: Electrical Engineering, classic construction,… read more
Words can't describe the connection that we have created with this three-month-long encounter. They can only come close to it, so I'll try (even though you do that much better than me :) )
To start, Mau is an interesting young man, well-educated and skilled speaker.
From the way he speaks, it can… read more
At first glance, a cautious young woman, that takes a little while to create a trustful connection.
Oh, but that just at the first glance.
Once she feels the environment around is safe enough for her to be herself, she opens up into this beautiful, light and inspiring young woman with deep understanding of the world and a great deal of… read more
these stars that you click before you start writing... well, there should be more stars. :)
Leo is a man of the wonderful character. Very attentive listener and very sensitive to interpersonal relationships. He feels the context of the reality in which he finds himself, understands it well and gladly accepts it. He is very diligent… read more
Having André here with us this summer was both, very fun and crazy productive!
He is the guy who is full of energy, enthusiasm and strength, and he goes for it, no matter the obstacles.
Especially if he sees the greater purpose of it!
André helped us re-plan and keep creating the gray-water system and the lake… read more
My experience through the workaway in Serbia could not have been better, a place where values and differences are respected. Where you can learn new skills. I will miss everyone, especially: Goran, Goga, Iva, Filip, Noah, Eliah and Ana. I will never forget the magical moments I spent in this place, but the good… read more
Very ready to study and then teach(!), but also someone who you can have a good time and great laugh.
Open to new experiences and encounters with completely different and foreign people.
Brave & ready for challenges!
Good team member, very honest and… read more
Sweet and gentle young woman, that moves and acts through her peaceful temperament.
She takes her time, and listens the environment, without wanting to act by force. A beautiful quality of a human being...
She was happy to participate in different aspects of construction work even though it wasn't always easy, and she developed a… read more
Truly simple, easy-going and interactive person to be with!
And, after the first morning coffee that he drinks with a lot of pleasure, he gets into the active mode & get to be this very productive guy, that, using his practical skills, and, his… read more
All the volunteering places in our summer volunteering camp got full, and Sebastian found us a bit too late, so we couldn't take him in as a regular volunteer for the whole time, but he finally came to us for a volunteering event that we made at the end of the… read more
A lot good could be said, but words would not be enough :)
Alen and Emma were both ready to jump in and help with any job needed, immediately.
Alen has great skills in construction and can find solutions to unexpected challenges with his practical mind!
Emma is able to handle not one, not two, but three little kids with no issues, and is helping out without even needing to… read more
She is so sweet, open to explore and take any task to work on, jumps in to help without any hesitation, and has a great way to pass on recently understood knowledge or skill.
But, above all, she is such a team player! Such an energizer for the group! Like a little ray of sunshine,… read more
