aus: Frankreich
Einzelperson
Frankreich, Großbritannien, Laos, Malaysia, Niederlande, Spanien, Taiwan, Türkei
30.09.2017 - 01.06.2020
Arrived in Fuerteventura December 15 2018 expecting to stay for a few weeks, but with interesting work, (See photos of The Shed) a most agreeable host, wonderful weather, I stayed 18 months!
In 2014 I concluded that the particular rut I was in had become very boring and uninspiring so after much reflection (and even more anxiety) I decided to sell my house (privately, having made a website) give away almost all of my possessions (very 'uplifting'!) and go travelling. At first I was unsure how I was going to go about financing the high costs involved for accommodation and food but then a friend put me on to Workaway and I immediately realised here was the answer.
I had run my own small building company in UK for 30 years and have practical skills and motivation which seem to be in much demand. During my four and a half years travelling I have visited several continents, met many interesting and inspiring people, and helped with many different projects from installing an IKEA kitchen, restoring antique furniture, creating a BnB website, to sweeping leaves cutting firewood etc etc.
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I keep myself very fit by walking and cycling and access to a bicycle on workaway projects is always appreciated.
I find that a telephone conversation often helps to determine whether volunteer and host can get along so if you provide a skype / whats app number I could telephone you.
Bauarbeiten
Kinderbetreuung
Altenpflege
Handwerkliche Arbeiten
Kochen/einkaufen
Sonstige Arbeiten
Hilfe bei Ökoprojekten
Hausarbeiten
Betreuung von Tieren
Hilfe mit Touristen
Karitative Arbeiten
Sprachen praktizieren
Hilfe bei Kunstprojekten
Hilfe mit Computer / Internet
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I have experience in carpentry, plumbing, masonry, adobe earth plastering, tiling, painting decorating, wallpaper hanging, asphalt roofing, cutting splitting logs, dry stone walling, dry lining, ... etc
I am computer literate and have made websites which I have been able to get on the front page of google (that's the difficult bit!!)
I cook and eat healthy food.
I have worked as a 'leader' with UK Woodcraft Folk with young people from ages 7 - 16. While in France I was a volunteer at a playgroup for children from 5 - 9 teaching arts & crafts and English and also teaching English to adults and teenagers for three years one evening a week.
For two years I was a part time volunteer warden at a hostel for homeless men with alcohol problems.
English, some French
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English
I consider myself a gregarious person whose interested in, and enjoys talking to, people from 'all walks of life'. I genuinely believe that we can learn something from everybody we meet and although I am open to new ideas I am also open to new thinking on old ideas!
I first went traveling when I was eighteen and hitch hiked with a friend across Europe to end up working on a kibbutz in Israel for 1 year before travelling on to other middle eastern countries. I caught the bug and spent the next four years traveling intermittently while working in the UK to fund the next 'adventure'.
At the age of 30 I went with my wife and two young children to newly independent Zimbabwe where I was responsible for the Appropriate Technology Department of a rural training centre set up by English Quakers. During my 2 years I initiated centre based and outreach courses of mud stove building which were incorporated into the training programme of local Primary Health care workers and low cost appropriate building methods as well as advanced thatching techniques more suited to the now sedentary local rural community.
At 33 I spent a few months in Bangladesh helping on an appropriate technology project.
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