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Hello, we are Eli and Wim. We live with our lovely one year old son Adan and our cohousing friend Niels in a cozy house in Flanders, Belgium.
Apart from being a mother, Eli is part of an NGO. She just started a 7 months organic farming project for people with Down Syndrome.
She also loves painting and drawing and is making a children's book about a Syrian refugee man, based on his true story.
Wim is working as a team leader for a nature conservation organization. In his free time he is volunteering for the same organization as a conservator of a nature reserve. He is very interested in plants and animals and he loves working with wood.
Niels works for the Flamish Human Rights Institute. In his free time he is a gymnastics teacher and he does aerial silks in circus. He loves reading and we love listening to him reading books to us in front of the wood stove!
We live next to Eli's family (parents, brother and sister), and we often have friends visiting, so it's a lively and interesting place :).
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Interests
Videography
Events & social
Vegetarian or vegan
Sustainability
Farming
Charity work
Plant care
DIY & crafts
Books
Art & design
Photography
Languages
Gardening
Cooking & food
Writing
Drawing & painting
Carpentry
Animals
Cycling
Nature
Camping
Mountain
Hiking
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You can join us with lots of activities within the family, our cohousing, the organizations we work and volunteer for,...
You can learn about growing your own vegetables and fruits, preserving food (making jams, chutneys, syrups, drying fruits, making juices,...), nature conservation,...
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
-Taking our baby Adan outside (he loves being outside!) so Eli has some time to draw on her children's book.
-Helping in the farming project for people with Down Syndrome. Every Saturday we have a group of people coming to our farm and we are introducing them to the farm life. We are growing organic vegetables , fruits, herbs and flowers together and we do other farm activities like shaving sheep, using the wool to spin and weave, making jams, chutneys, syrups,... drying fruit, picking apples for juice, etc.
-Helping in the household and cooking
-Joining nature conservation activities
-...
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Fluent
Dutch: Fluent
Arabic: IntermediateThis 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
We live in a cohousing. All rooms in the house are shared, apart from the bedrooms. You will have a bedroom for yourself. If you like sleeping outside, there is also an option to sleep in a caravan, where you can watch the deer and the squirrels passing by.
We have the habit of eating together. Usually one person cooks for all of us, and we take turns.
We eat vegetarian food, mainly organic and we use lots of fresh vegetables and fruits from the garden.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
