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Helping out in the amazing oasis of Siwa, Egypt

Availability

  2024 

 Min stay requested: at least a week

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  • Description

    Description

    Located just a 10-minute walk from the ancient town in Siwa Oasis, secluded from the buzzing noise from the downtown, this is an Newley built camping in the middle of the palm tree forest embracing the simple life of Siwa.

    The simple life revolves around nature, local resources including the building materials: local mud, Kersheef (Natural Salty Rocks) and palm tree trunks.
    Embracing the coziness of living in nature under the open sky.

    We offer our volunteers free accommodation, access to the kitchen so that they can cook their own meals.
    Volunteers will have their own room during the stay with shared bathrooms.
    Maximum 3 volunteers can stay at the same time, you might have to share room with others depending on how many workawayers we have at the time.

    Our teamwork of 3 local Egyptian nice and friendly, helpful persons will help you with anything, Thay working for 8 hours during the day in shifts or together as work need

    You will enjoy a wonderful experience, a safe environment and lots of open space for creativity to grow, meet with the local people and learn about Siwi culture, learn eco construction while helping with natural or recycled materials and hopefully learn or teach somebody somethings new.

    Volunteers who qualify are those who love what they do and do what they love, people who would like to add their touch to the place and are easy going, artistic, energetic fun-loving people.

    You will be given a brief orientation about what can be done in the camp as well as in the amazing oasis of Siwa, then you will have free reins to develop your project while at the same time helping out whenever it's needed.

    Usually, the stay is 7 to 15 days, however sometimes we offer longer-term assignments with free accommodation.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Art Projects
    Language practice
    Help with Eco Projects
    Teaching
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Animal Care
    Farmstay help
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    Hospitality/Tourism
    General Maintenance
    Help with Computers/ Internet
  • Interests

    Interests

    Movies & TV
    Farming
    Culture
    Events & social
    Gardening
    Photography
    Art & design
    Plant care
    Animals
    Mountain
    Cycling
    Water sports
    Nature
    Camping
    Adventure sports
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    You will live close to the local community of then Siwis, have a lots of opportunities to practise Arabic.

    Because of the wide variety of projects you'll have the opportunity to learn new skills or improve and teach what you already know.

  • Help

    Help

    The camp has a lot of potential, but we need hands on people to make our vision come true.
    If you are a versatile person is a plus, since we have a big variety of things to do around, like:
    -Building
    We build everything ourselves, and could use some help with that. We use mainly local resources like: mud, Kersheef (Natural Salty Rocks) and palm tree trunks & leafs. So if you have experience/interest with building with natural resources and Up-cycling that would be great!
    -Farming
    We are aiming to be a self sustained camp, with our own animal farm with goats, donkeys, chicken, and we’ll need loving & patient people to take care of our animals and help with farming.
    -Gardening
    If you have green fingers we could also need some help with landscaping, gardening around our camp and our vegetables garden.
    Help us grow our compost and water the plant’s in the garden.
    -Art/ Decorating
    Our camp is a blank canvas!
    Explore your creativity and advance your DIY skills making decorations for the camp, painting murals, creating hang-out spots, anything that would make our camp even more beautiful and artsy is welcome.
    -Hosting
    As our on the camp ground staff you will be dealing with guest relations and acting as an intermediate between staff and guest.
    Generally keeping the communal camping ground tidy, sometimes setting the mood of the camp, by making a bonfire, putting some music on, or things like that.
    -Workshop
    We would love to host workshops at our camp. Share your skills and knowledge with the world, and help our community to grow!
    -Social media
    If you have social media skills, we could use some help managing our social media account, making stories, posts, sharing the everyday life at the camp.
    As you can see there’s a variety of possibilities, so we are available for discussing the details of what your tasks in the camp would be.

  • Languages spoken

    English: Fluent

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    The accommodation at the camping is a hut built out of natural materials (mainly palm tree leafs) with a cloth covering the walls and ceiling on the inside, giving it the feel and comfort of a big and cooling tent.
    Depending on how many workawayers we have at the time you might share the hut with other volunteers.
    There is a (gas) kitchen and a fridge at the camping that will only be used by staff and workawayers ( not for guests )
    There are 2 bathrooms with showers and hot water available at the camp.
    1 Male and 1 Femaie.

    there is no Wi-Fi at camping but you wil get good service with both Orange and Vodafone.
    we cover the breakfast, we share as team work the food for lunch and diner

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    You will have plenty of time to enjoy the paradise that is Siwa oasis.

  • 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

  • ...

    Hours expected

    5 hours a day, 5 days a week

Host ref number: 745355861545

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