Brazil
Favourited 52 times
Hi!
My name is Fabiano.
I am building the structures of a Rooftop Garden at my mom's house in São Paulo, close to Guarulhos airport!
The aim of this project is to treat part of the sewage and the rainwater with bioreactors and filtering gardens. And use this water as a nutrient to feed an entire ecosystem for food production in an aquaponics system powered by the sun!
It is a social and ecological project that you may like to participate!
Although it is a construction, it is small and we work in a handcrafted manner.
The help we need is mostly to cut, sand and paint wood, iron and concrete with the help of electrical tools. You don´t need to have any previous knowledge, but it is important that you truly desire to learn and practice construction skills!
It's only me and Cicinho, an authentic and humble Brazilian guy, working on the construction, and you will become part of the team to complete the three Musketeers.
If you feel you're a person looking for learning new skills, to be creative and share crazy ideas, this is the place for you; due to my background and wild desire to learn new things, I have developed several skills you might find appealing, such as welding, permaculture, how to use different tools, construction principles, handicrafts, and so on.
I also enjoy to have deep talks about life and I will be more than happy to share quality time with you and grow together.
:)
We offer the room (sometimes a shared room) and the food in exchange for your help in the project.
For the complete experience, we ask 4 hours of work at the construction and some help in the kitchen at home. The work at the construction is only from Monday to Friday.
You can stay for a short or long period.
We are in the Penha neighborhood.
Going to the center of the town takes about 40 minutes (bus + metro). Thus, the airport of Guarulhos is at less than 30 minutes from here by car and 1 hour by bus.
Hope you like it!
:)
Building
General Maintenance
Help with Eco project
Art project
Help with Computers / internet
You may learn the Brazilian culture and language from my mom and I, the other worker and workawayes at the construction.
My mom doesn't speak English, so you will learn a lot of Portuguese with her!
I have developed several skills you might find appealing, such as welding, permaculture, how to use different tools, construction principles, handicrafts, and so on.
I also enjoy to have deep talks about life and I will be more than happy to share quality time with you and grow together.
:)
We are building the structures for an intensive rooftop garden. It is being made of wood, steel and concrete.
Even if you don't have any construction skills, we need a lot of help sanding, preparing and painting some iron structures and iron grids; There are some wood for cut, sanding and painting; And some cleaning.
Thus we ask some help to cook and keep the house clean.
If you are an architect, civil engineer, marketing specialist, web designer, etc. You can help the project doing what you are used to do with the computer, if you like!
For that, we expect you are able to help us from 2 to 4 hours a day from Monday to Friday.
Here is the terms of the exchange that we propose:
We offer the bed (or room) and breakfast for 2 hours of helping us at the construction.
The lunch "costs" one hour and another hour for dinner.
:)
So, you may want to stay for all the meals and help us 4 hours/day during the week and a few help at home the weekends!
You may decide to help us 8 hours some days of the week and be free to do a course or whatever you want the remaining days, too!
English, Spanish and Portuguese
There are two small rooms, with a single bed in it each one, and a shared room.
We provide towels, bedding, and the clothes and shoes to wear while helping at the construction!
It is relatively close to Guarulhos Airport. I think the UBER asks about R$40,00 from the airport to home.
It is a residential area, around 50 minutes to the center of town with public transportation.
The house is at the Vila Libanesa, at the Penha's neighborhood, but it is necessary to take a bus to the closest subway station, called Vila Matilde. If you put "Vila Libanesa" and "Penha", at the google maps, you may find it! :)
We also have bikes that you can take for a ride, go to the metro station, parks etc!
:)
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
One
2 to 4 hours/5 days a week
These are extra optional ratings when members leave feedback. The average rating left for each option is displayed.
Accuracy of profile:
(5.0)
Cultural exchange:
(5.0)
Communication:
(5.0)
