Give our community a helping hand and explore the unique village of Kilpisjärvi, Lapland, Finland

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  Description

  We are a community with two families living in one big house. We have two toddlers and two dogs. We are living in up Finland´s Lapland in Kilpisjärvi. Kilpisjärvi is small village with 120 inhabitants. Mainly we have tourism here because of our unique nature. Nature exploring is here best what you can do and enjoy the silence of it.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Animal Care

  Babysitting and creative play

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house
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  UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  Our small village in Finnish Lapland is unique in its nature and culture. Here you can make contact with living Finnish Lappish countryside. You can take part in Finnish culture and how we combine Sami people living in Kilpisjärvi. You can learn how to live near nature, how it´s present every day, and see how seasons (if you stay longer with us) change in the fell side. Kilpisjärvi is the perfect place for hiking, fishing, forest skiing, and relaxing. Here you can learn to live day by day and forget a calendar-based hour-by-hour lifestyle. If you want to find the connection to your inner self and learn to listen to yourself better, many have said that this is the place for it.
  We are living in a big commune house so we are present with you every day. We are quite a relaxed family with two small boys so there is some action in the house for sure. Most of us work in the family business and we work either from the house or around our resort. We would like to share with you our culture, cooking, and living ways near the Northern nature.
  We hope that we are learning parts of your culture and that our children get to know multicultural ways from the start. We are also really passionate about exploring different food cultures.

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  We are living in a community in high-up Finland Lapland in Kilpisjärvi. We are looking for an extra hand to help our daily routine with our two small boys and two dogs. Cleaning, walking with dogs, cooking, and taking care occasionally of our children. We have also some bigger tasks waiting, like organizing our garage.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Finnish: Fluent

  This 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.
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  Accommodation

  Room in our community. We live in a three-floor house, one family on the top floor and one family on the ground floor. There would be a room on the floor available. There is a shared toilet on the middle floor with a shower. We hope that we can exchange recipes and cook together or change a bit the days that who would be cooking. We are taking care of the main supplements for food with this exchange and we can talk then further about how would be best to organize the rest.

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  What else ...

  Here it´s perfect to go around in nature and explore it as it´s appearance. You are able to travel nearby villages easiest with own car. There is also one bus line going south once a day towards Rovaniemi and after the December also one bus line to north towards Norway and Tromso.
  
  Our Government Forest department (Metsähallitus) has collected a good information about Kilpisjärvi, services and what you can do around.
  

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Can host digital nomads

  This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.

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  Space for parking camper vans

  This host can provide space for campervans.

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  Can possibly accept pets

  We have two dogs but if all pets are getting along well we are welcoming them.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  Two

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