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We try to be open-hearted and broad-minded, we enjoy having guests and we are happy to meet, live, learn and share with different people! Let's join us and bring your way, culture and attitudes in our environment :)
Renzo is 44, Valeria is 39, Rita is 11, Nina is 9 years old and Franco is now 7.
Renzo works for a company dealing with clean environment / recycling and social inclusion, Valeria is a part-time henna artist and a full-time mum and housewife.
Our children are happy of hosting workawayers, they enjoy playing with them, sharing life experiences, games and they can improve their English or start learning new languages too.
We have few pets: Magenta (a very old black cat), Tarta (a very old turtle) and Neruch (a not so old black cat).
The house it's two storey, we live in the first floor, while on the ground floor Renzo's mum is living, she's 87 years old, but still independent and active.
- We like travelling, looking at the world with curiosity, meeting people, smiling, reading, cooperation (in small and big things), cultural exchanges, and last but not least eating and cooking very tasty vegan food as we are vegetarian.
- We are very interested in spirituality in daily life and common activities
- We have the luck to own a 30+ years old T3 VW van that we use for holidays and outings.
- We drink little alcohol, but we don't mind if you want to have a beer and if we have guests sometimes there will be wine on the table.
- We are concerned about environmental matter
- We like to play Geocaching sometimes
- When we go somewhere (eg. mountain, river, seaside, hindu temple, friends and so on) workawayers are generally welcome to join us.
- We previously had been Couchsurfing, Boy-Scouts and AEGEE members.
- We are not musicians at all but in the house there are a guitar, a djembe, an indian dholak and a piano too (in granny's house), we are more than happy if you want to play them!
- We are coffee drinkers, espresso and moka are available always 😝 but tea or herbal tea too! And also barley coffee (do you know it?).
- We try to accomodate our volunteer's food choices and preferences as well as we can, please inforrm us about them.
- We are sometimes bin-diving (fruit and vegetables).
Renzo loves mountains, open green spaces or forests, the sky, stars, clouds running fast..
Valeria is fond of decorating, hennaing, sewing, crocheting and all crafty activities! :)
Our children loves games, fun, videogames, cartoons, comics, books, outdoor activities, exploring new places...
Our faults? We are a little messy (actually more than a little) and sometimes we lose our temper and raise our voices (but for sure we love each other!)
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In this moment we are not considering requests from people who need to start Italian citizenship process
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Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Elderly Companionship
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
when happening in daily life or on demand:
- vegan recipes (eg. baking bread with the sour dough, preparing tempeh or preparing falafel, using chickpeas flour instead of eggs and so on)
- preparation of water kefir, sauerkraut and more fermented foods
- basics of henna mixing and henna design (obviously the volunteer can be decorated with henna as much as he/she likes)
- gardening cultural exchange
- Italian language practice
- general tips on Italian culture and places around (e.g. not only Venice, but Caorle, Cittadella, Castelfranco, Feltre, etc.)
- visit together nice places around on daily trips or half day excursions
- visions on Indian and Eastern spirituality/way of being in the World
- prayer and meditation together
Au Pair Help
Further details can be found here
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
--- Summer 2024: URGENT HELP NEEDED for carrying and setting firewoods for the Winter, more details on a video call---
The house is not small and it is surrounded by garden with fruit trees and vegetable garden (organic), and with 3 kids around is not easy to keep up with all the work!
We'd love to have a helping hand to support us on our daily routine, so help to keep the house tidy, spending some time with Rita, Nina and Franco (playing, teaching new languages skills or other knowledges e.g. music - art - etc., sharing informations and opinions on different countries, life experiences or topics...), do the laundry, help in the garden and vegetable garden (e.g. weeding, night slugs hunting...), food preserving and processing, cooperation in our volunteering projects... basically help in whatever needs to be done!
We are also happy to know more about different life experiences, visions on life, cultural backgrounds and so on.
We are also very happy to listen your suggestions or to let you develop a particular project if you want to propose (e.g. workshops with our children, general or particular environment inprovements, etc.)
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
Czech: Beginner
Hindi: BeginnerThis 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
The volunteer will be sleeping in a private room with independent entrance on the first floor, in the room there is a single bed but 1 more bed can fit in it for visitors (even friends/relatives of our workawayer for 1 or 2 nights, after common agreement)
A few times during day time we need to access or use the room, when needed we are communicating it (there is some storage space and sewing equipment in the room).
The guestroom is normally used as Valeria's henna studio, I'll try not to book many home henna appointments during the volunteer's stay but if I have already bookings I will inform the volunteer in advance.
In the house we kindly ask not to wear shoes: clean sleepers (we can provide them), socks or barefeet are welcome 😊
The volunteer will be provided with a bicycle for his own personal use.
The volunteer will have to share the bathroom with us as there's only one bathroom in the house.
What else ...
Treviso, our city, is a quiet town (85000 inhabitants), many people are surprised how pretty and cozy it is, we don't live in the city centre, but not so far from it either, it's just about 10 minutes by bus or bike, we can provide a bike to our volunteer for the duration of the stay.
The Summer is quite hot and humid, Spring is ok, late Fall is sometimes really foggy and wet, Winter is not so cold but sometimes wet as well.
We live near "Sile river natural park", where there's a nice walking-cycling route in the nature, and you can even follow the river to the city centre or to the countryside for many kilometers in the opposite direction, on a day trip you can reach the sea following the cycle path!
Venice (Venezia) is just half an hour by train, while Padova and Vicenza are about one hour away.
The same goes for seaside (Caorle or Jesolo are around one hour by bus, less if driving) and mountains, pre-alps are nearby (you can easily reach Feltre by train).
Other cities you can quite easily get in a longer day-trip are Verona, Ferrara, Bologna, Trieste, Gorizia (and Nova-Gorica in Slovenia), Udine, Cittadella, Castelfranco.
Closer place to have a bath in the nature in Summer time is Piave river, around 1 hour by bike or 20 minutes by car.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We do have a decent wifi connection
Space for parking camper vans
we have room for small campervan in case
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Feedback (27)
This way of behaving was bringing some troubles on these days family organization , and also other people's requests of hospitality were effected.
We… read more
Children loved her and her kindness.
They spent lovely moments preparing food together or playing or doing art activities.
She was very interested in learning and understanding better our Italian culture, but… read more
She's kind, funny, outgoing, talkative, active and responsible.
She has great communication skills and is attentive to different environments needs so she interact properly in different situations.
She's a workaway veteran with experience about the network.
We also met her super boyfriend Eduardo who… read more
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This way of behaving was bringing some troubles on these days family organization , and also other people's requests of hospitality were effected.
We… read more
Children loved her and her kindness.
They spent lovely moments preparing food together or playing or doing art activities.
She was very interested in learning and understanding better our Italian culture, but… read more
She's kind, funny, outgoing, talkative, active and responsible.
She has great communication skills and is attentive to different environments needs so she interact properly in different situations.
She's a workaway veteran with experience about the network.
We also met her super boyfriend Eduardo who… read more
respectful, curious, easygoing and hardworking.
Children loved her!
Very interested in local views and culture.
During her stay she became a family member, interested and involved with our lives and language!
Welcome again!
She is very flexible and easy going, she adapted to the general chaos ruling our life. She's patient and open: she shared a lot about herself, her culture, her interests and life experiences with us, always being attentive on our feedbacks and opinions.
She's been always helpful and she worked hard in whatever… read more
I've spent 3 terrific weeks with this lovely family. I was also really lucky to share my experience with another lovely workawayer who was already in the family when I arrived. I think we made a really good working, but also adventuring team. Obrigada Eliane 🙂
Our job consisted of giving a hand on the everyday tasks including gardening,… read more
We found her a very sensitive, generous, respectful, funny and empathetic woman, able to listen, meet and interact warm hearted with others'people life.
She shared in different ways so many informations and emotions that accurs in her family, work… read more
At the same time, she… read more
she always cleans after herself and keeps the house tidy, it's not necessary to repeat things (such as sweep the floor or do the dishes) as she get it the first time and makes it automaticly whenever she sees the work to be done, and… read more
She's good with children and generally very helpful around the house in the everyday routine!
it was really a pleasure to host her, and a pity she only stayed for a short time, but we hope she will visit again in the future ;)
Also he's reliable and heplful with children.
He is not scared of hard works (we chopped and stocked together wood under deep rain!!) and he shared with our family his passion for volleyball!
He is not super tidy and sometimes he doesn't see the mess around… read more
she is very direct, communicative, flexible, helpful... It was a really enriching experience to host her from many different points of view :)
as we had other helpers at the same time we were able to take full advantage of Sally's… read more
I stayed for two weeks and helped out with basic things like dishes and hanging laundry but my main job was to paint a mural in the hallway using the children's artwork. I had a lovely experience there and Im sure I gained a few kilos from Valeria's great vegan cooking. Other helpers were also there so I got to meet people from Russia,… read more
Maiko is really… read more
Their children are lovely and smart, and it was nice to see my children interact with them. My children even… read more
Rita, Nina and Franco are very open and friendly children. Rita - very charismatic and smart girl. Her English is perfect!! I loved reading books with her, playing… read more
The kids are all beautiful and smart. They helped me get a different perception of my own childhood and family. :) As I have no children this was a great eye opening experience in the life of a family with 3 kids.
Rita speaks English better than me. She is smart and a beautiful soul. She was the… read more
We also were joking… read more
Personally she is so cheerful, always has a smile on her face and is patient and kind even in the midst of madness!
Thank you Marina! And see you again ;)
About the work she is reliable, hard working, learning fast and tries her best with every task she is given.
She's very sweet and caring, Rita got quite attached to her she enjoyed a lot playing together.
And she's also very kind and thoughtful, she sent christmas wishes even before we met… read more
My 7 weeks I spent with them were just as I imagined and so much more.
It was really nice to be there during the time when baby Franco joined the family and I was glad I could be of help to make this special time a bit less stressful for the parents.
I had many fantastic conversations with both… read more
Patricia was such a great help to have around and she has lots of experience with childcare, it was great to have someone so helpful and reliable here at a special time, when Franco was born.
Plus she shot some… read more
It was my first experience as a workawayer and with children!
They helped me much more than I helped them to be honest. I was in a really delicate situation and there I could feel at home.
Their family is amazing, the kids are just adorable and I admire now even more… read more
We will definitely visit her in France one day :)
And thanks again for Dobble XD
It was my first… read more
She learnt the jobs very quickly and was independent in performing them after we shown her once. She was helpful even during her non-working hours, and very… read more
She really wanted to improve her italian so we always spoke italian and sometimes we had to explain more than once the work but once she got the point she could be trusted to finish the work and clean up without wasting any time. She's young but makes up for… read more
Renzo and… read more
She is also an observer and a fast learner and this is one of the best traits to have in a helper because she got better and better in the work during her stay… read more
He speak… read more
Never have I been treated so warmly like in this family - no stress, no bad feelings during the work and a wonderful atmosphere in the family and the surroundings. (Really alternative folks there ;) )
I just started to speak italian… read more
They are really open warm hearted people.
Rita is just like an angel.
Her smile always made us happy.
We learned a lot from them especially about "share" and "exchange".
Their life style -healthy,natural,simple,human and nature friendly,with full of love and… read more
It was a pleasure to host them!
We enjoyed having Zorah here, our little girls liked her as well, she took the older one to the playgound whenever it… read more
She helped so much with deep cleaning (which we really much needed!) and with everyday tidying and cleaning as well :)
Our little girl enjoyed her company a lot and the same for granny (renzo's mum living upstairs)!
She's also helpful in the housekeeping and anything else you ask her to do.
It's a pleasure to just talk and chat with her as well, she's a really nice company :)
I also really miss the… read more
