Help with improving a small community and NGO in Latinovac, Slavonia, Croatia

Availability

  2025 

 Min stay requested: at least a week

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  • Description

    Description

    My name is Branka, guider of this place. After a career of 25 years as a psychologist in the city, I retired to live in a simple way. In 1998, I bought a small house in the Latinovac village, Croatia. Over the years, lot of people from all over the world brought their help to make this place what is it today. A peaceful place, very simple and basic. This is all we really need to be happy in our community.

    In 2019, my goals are to work on progress in permaculture gardening and reach sustainablility in a way of having most our own food. Also working on maintaining and rebuilding the house (painting the walls and mowing the grass). Continue on designing the place making more fncional).
    Continue with zen meditation and working permaculture garden.

    With this project, we´ll continue to cooperate with the Zen sangha from Germany, in Steerberg, and we will contibute in growing the sangha mentoring, by Zen master Christoph.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    General Maintenance
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Farmstay help
    Help with Eco Projects
    Help around the house
    Art Projects
    Help with Computers/ Internet
    Teaching
  • UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN goals
    No poverty
    Zero hunger
    Good health and well-being
    Quality education
    Gender equality
    Clean water and sanitation
    Affordable and clean energy
    Decent work and economic growth
    Industries, innovation and infrastructure
    Reduce inequality
    Sustainable cities and communities
    Responsible consumption and production
    Climate action
    Life below water
    Life on land
    Peace, justice and strong institutions
    Partnerships for the goals
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Simple life in nature, meet different people and contribute to a growing spiritual life in a multicultural communitiy.

  • Help

    Help

    Volunteers are welcomed to share this space and help with design, build, cooking, cleaning, gardening, permaculture, helping with the website and bring new ideas. They are welcome to be creative and have initiative.

    Guests can stay up to two weeks.

  • Languages spoken

    English: Fluent
    Croatian: Fluent

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    Two volonteers can be accomodated in one house, and two others in an other house. Travellers will be accomodated in one/two beds rooms using common bathroom with washing mashine.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    In the village, there is a bus connection with places up to 30 km: Nasice, Osijek, Slavonski Brod, Požega.
    It is possible to reach the village from Zagreb by the train

    Piano players can play, you can read books, walk, etc.

    Our place is non-smoking, alcohol and drug free.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

Host ref number: 155473326615

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