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The elderly in these parts have miserable pensions and many when they become widows are left with little assistance.
To help, a our family are building a charity home for the aged townsfolk without families to support them. The building will also serve as a community centre, and eventually an organic farm.
The house is 80% finished and livable. There are some light construction jobs to be completed: painting, tile laying and the likes. If you have any of these skills let us now.
The grounds are needing some serious tender care. We can use anyone who can dig a bit of a garden, weed, trim trees and even do some harvesting and jarring.
In addition to help for the grounds and garden, we are always looking for people to do house-sitting over the colder months and maybe during the warmer ones.
Lisa is a small farming community in the far southern Romanian county of Teleorman, close to the Bulgarian border and the Danube river. The project in Lisa is a relaxing place and is on the very edge of town where it is very quiet and peaceful. The property where the building takes place consists of the big new building for the project, two old buildings (now practically derelict), a small orchard, and quite a large meadow with an abundance of fruit trees.
During spring through to autumn, the property serves as a camping spot or basic accommodation for bicycle tourers cycling along the Eurovelo 6 route. The cycle route goes from France to the Black Sea. This is one of (if not 'the') most popular bicycle route in Europe, and the route passes right through Lisa! In exchange for accommodating them, the guests make donations to the charity project. Some great times can be had with the tourists that come to stay.
For any further details please feel free to contact Deborah via this website.
Thank you for your helping hands
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
As the town of Lisa is a small town, everybody will be curious of you and want to know about you. There will be an opportunity to mix with the (emotional, loud talking but) friendly neighbours and towns people, and even get/buy various different food produce off them.
You will get a glimpse of what Western Europe would have been like significantly more than 50 years ago, with many people mainly living off their land and using a horse and cart to get around.
Many people find the houses, life style and properties here to be quite beautiful.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
It is a relaxed environment here and we hope to leave helpers to manage themselves, depending on the work. A lot of the time what work you do is dictated by how hot or wet the weather is, or what needs doing at the time.
Outdoors:
Weeding, planting, tree trimming, landscaping
Feeding the cat/s and dog
Indoors:
Painting walls
Oiling and varnishing doors
Plumbing
Tile laying
General maintenance
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Romanian: Fluent
French: Intermediate
Accommodation
Most likely you will have a room of your own.
If it gets really busy, it may be necessary to share a room with someone else, but this has never been necessary before.
The house currently has the following facilities:
- Electricity
- Running hot water (heated via solar panels)
- Wifi
- A washing machine
- kitchen with gas stove and fridge with freezer
House rules:
For a little bit of clarification of what we consider sensible, sociable and considerate behaviour.
The project aims to be a very informal, laid back easy going place.
- No excessive consumption of alcohol
- Please refrain from visiting any of the local bars.
- Wash and clean up after yourself.
- If you prepare some food, ask others if they would like to contribute to its contents, preparation, and, especially if using communal food; its consumption.
- - Alcohol Consumption - -
Any excess drinking that causes you to be any kind of liability, may lead to you being asked to leave the project, and any stay you have previously arranged to have at the Bed & Breakfast will be forfeited. The fact that the locals encouraged you to drink, or bought or gave you alcohol will not be accepted as an excuse. You may get one warning, or you may not.
For some, it is difficult to find a way to occupy themselves in their free time here, due to the lack of familiar entertainment opportunities that rural Romania has to offer. In these circumstances the temptation of extremely cheap or free alcoholic drinks in abundance is too much of a temptation.
If you get into a condition where you cannot be confidently trusted to look after yourself, or even stand on your own two feet or walk up steps without falling over, you will be asked to leave without hesitation. This is for your own well being as in this condition the general environment of the property and town could be of significant danger to you.
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What else ...
The River Danube is quite close (8Km), it is possible to go swimming at the water reservoir, take the bus to Alexandria for the day or go further to visit in the country for a day or two.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have good broadband internet
Space for parking camper vans
There is a water and electrical hookup. The drive has a slidibg through gate so you do not need to reverse. This may need some weeding before exiting but it is available.
Can possibly accept pets
We have a dog LEX who stays outdoors. 2 or 3 cats that stay outdoors or in the basement areas. Animals are mot permitted in bedrooms, common rooms or the kitchen. If your pet can live by thosexrules they are more than welcome.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week. If winter housesitting, you just have to be here!
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I started as a volunteer in 2017 and stayed for a long time. However from the beginning of 2020 I started spending a lot less time in Lisa and contributing to the project less. Now I feel I can write something in a… read more
The landscape is generally rather flat and for sure not as hilly/mountainous as other parts of Romania but hilly enough to get the 'get away' feeling and… read more
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I started as a volunteer in 2017 and stayed for a long time. However from the beginning of 2020 I started spending a lot less time in Lisa and contributing to the project less. Now I feel I can write something in a… read more
The landscape is generally rather flat and for sure not as hilly/mountainous as other parts of Romania but hilly enough to get the 'get away' feeling and… read more
Whilst he was here he made a big impact on the condition of the house:
He helped paint the floors of most of the rooms on one level of the house.
Painted the walls of a whole room.
Did lots and lots of moving and carrying of heavy… read more
She was also a good laugh, supportive, and an all round great help.
The project/property serves… read more
Work was easy and enjoyable, you can choose to work outdoors or indoors. Sam, who is in charged of the place was a very nice person and I want to thank him again for being so friendly and… read more
The biggest things were . . .
. . . welding fence panels to posts to finally creat a secure… read more
We stayed for only one week but it was enough time to get to know each other and have some good time.
The project is something worth to spend time and effort. You'll never get bored there doing the same thing. There are lots of tasks that needs to be done. The little village is very quiet and… read more
They stayed for about a week, and were warm, fun, considerate, and hard working whilst doing a good job. They cooked lots of nice food and it was hard to stop them from working sometimes. I tried to find work that they would prefer the most, but they insisted on helping with whatever needed doing the… read more
I was really fortunate to spend a few days in Bucharest with Deborah and her family. They were all really lovely and took me around the city to get to… read more
There is… read more
We were warmly welcomed by Samuel and shown around the project and the local area. Coming to stay with our 3 children we weren't sure what we would achieve, but we were so grateful for the opportunity and so happy that we were able to contribute and complete a lot of work.
Lisa Telorman is a small town… read more
They . . .
. . . completed a path that I've been trying to get done for over a year.
. . . fixed the water pump that pumps water up from the well into the pipes of the… read more
Deborah and her family were fantastic hosts, and whilst they were not on site they made sure that I had… read more
