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Host rating
80 %
Last replied
21 Feb 2024
Reply rate
60.0 %
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Description
Our non profit organisation Tannourine Cedar society (Tannour w Nour) was established in 2014 to protect one of the largest cedar forest in Lebanon. The organisation is fully supportive for the engagement of the local community in the process of conservation and to raise awareness about environmental issues through education programs for the local community and the reserve's visitors.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
Farmstay help
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
The volonteers will have the chance to benefit from the outdoors activities provided in the reserve, learn how to identify the local wildplants and animals, know about the local cuisine, exchange with rural communities, have an overview on the different agricultural practices while practicing the Arabic lebanese language.
Help
The volonteer will have the opportunity to participate in our environmental activities on:
1- Monitoring biodiversity ( fauna and flora)
2- trails maintenance in the reserve and the surrounded trails ( brochures designing, signages, mapping, blazing and trails cleaning)
3- planning and implementing for outdoor educational activities for the reserve's visitors.
4- working on the Native Tree Nursery (seeds collection, seeds treatments, sowing and other general maintenance for the greenhouse)
5- participation in the cleaning and awareness campains ( cartridges campains, trails adoptions and other cleaning campains that will be organized for the community engagements).
6- marketing for our educational and ecotourism activities on our social media platforms.
Languages
Languages spoken
Arabic: Fluent
English: Fluent
French: FluentThis 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
You will be living in a private room and a shared bathroom in the the reserve's house where there is availability for cooking and we provide food for our volonteer.
What else ...
You can hike through the LMT trail (section 9 and 10 in Tannourine) as part of the long trail going from the North to the South of Lebanon through the mountains (470 km) and the hermitages trail crossing the cedar reserve and passing through the walnuts river of Ayn el Raha valley towards Tannourine Tahta village and Hardine. You will also have the chance to visit the sinkhole of Baatata gorge waterfall in Balaa and Radish valley on your days off. We don't have public transportation but we can pick up you from the surrounded village of hadath el Jobbeh.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (4)
Planting young trees, collecting seeds and cleaning the plastics around the forest, and doing photographs was the help I could give. Small help, but… read more
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Planting young trees, collecting seeds and cleaning the plastics around the forest, and doing photographs was the help I could give. Small help, but… read more
We worked for 5-6 hours every day with trail maintenance in the… read more
