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3 Apr 2026
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My name is Gideon.
I’m a freelance photographer and videographer, but my real passion lies in building something meaningful for my village.
I started a small English learning community for children here creating a fun and safe space where they can learn, play, and grow in confidence. For many of them, this is their first exposure to English, and we believe it can open doors to a wider world and brighter opportunities in the future.
Our village is located on the beautiful slopes of Mount Sindoro, surrounded by fresh air, green landscapes, and a slower rhythm of life. Most people here are tobacco and coffee farmers, producing high-quality crops that are part of our daily life. If you're curious, you'll have the chance to learn about local farming practices and see how things really work on the ground.
What makes this place truly special is the people. Life here is simple, warm, and deeply connected. Hospitality is not something we try to offer it’s just who we are.
We are also proud of our culture. Traditional arts are still alive in the village, from music to performances, and you may have the chance to experience or even participate in them.
This is not just a place to volunteer.
It’s a place to slow down, connect, and become part of a community.
If you enjoy working with children, sharing your culture, and experiencing authentic village life this might be the place for you.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
Farmstay help
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
Interests
Videography
Sustainability
Culture
Camping
Outdoor activities
Plant care
Art & design
Music
Photography
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Here you can get more experiences. Knowing peoples and culture. You can learn about life, villagers life style. You can learn about Javanese culture, such as dance, language, gamelan music (traditional music), our myth, Javanese essence of life (Kejawen). Farming, specially coffee (depend on the season), tobacco (depend on the season), chili, corn, and many more.
Help
We need you who can teach English for the people in my place (village). We need someone who love to a children and hopefully can blend with them because most of our 'student' will be a children.
Languages
Languages spoken
Indonesian: Fluent
Javanese: Fluent
English: BeginnerThis 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
For accommodation, you can stay at my house. I have 1 room empty.
For reach market from my home we need 15 minutes by motorcycle.
I can provide the meals 3 times a day with a Javanese meals or traditional food.
What else ...
You can take the flight to Yogyakarta. And then take a bus to Magelang, the nearest city from Temanggung. And then I pick you up in Magelang.
There is no wifi in the village, but you can have internet with the sim card data.
I have a lot experiences with volunteers. My English teacher is an workaway members to. So if he have guest, sometimes I accompany the guest. Travelling or go somewhere.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
We have a garage, not to big. Its already a car there, but workawayer can use in front of our garage. Not for permanently
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
My animals / pets
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I'm fill so blessed when Helen was here.
She stayed with me for one week. We have taught children in my village everyday. She has taught well and she is very energetic. Helen is very fond of teaching children. She loves children here. I saw it real with my eyes. She work 100%. She… read more
Sara is a good person. She has a good personality. She is humble, polite, cheerful and friendly. She has many friends here ( Dona, Tomi, Roni, Deny, Yoda, Puput, Fara, Cantik,… read more
Gideon was my first Workaway Host and I stayed with him for 6 weeks.
If you decide to go there, don't look for work but for finding family and friends. His family is so kind, his mother treated me like one of her children and his father always supported me… read more
We spent 18 days together to educate children in my Village.
Emiko is a very sociable, friendly, respectful, have a good responsibility.
She really helped me in educating children in my village.
She really likes children, also people around. Good in teaching English and… read more
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I'm fill so blessed when Helen was here.
She stayed with me for one week. We have taught children in my village everyday. She has taught well and she is very energetic. Helen is very fond of teaching children. She loves children here. I saw it real with my eyes. She work 100%. She… read more
Sara is a good person. She has a good personality. She is humble, polite, cheerful and friendly. She has many friends here ( Dona, Tomi, Roni, Deny, Yoda, Puput, Fara, Cantik,… read more
Gideon was my first Workaway Host and I stayed with him for 6 weeks.
If you decide to go there, don't look for work but for finding family and friends. His family is so kind, his mother treated me like one of her children and his father always supported me… read more
We spent 18 days together to educate children in my Village.
Emiko is a very sociable, friendly, respectful, have a good responsibility.
She really helped me in educating children in my village.
She really likes children, also people around. Good in teaching English and… read more
He stayed with me in 10 days. He helped me to teach kids in my village. Not for whole days, just many times. But he very helpful.
He is so kind. And he can adapt well here, well I saw that hard to adapt in the different culture. But he tried .
I'm very appreciate with his work.
Over here,… read more
Gideon is doing a great project. He opened Sunday English School. So, any child from his village can now learn English for free. The project helps children to speak and understand English without learning rocket science grammar and doing boring exercises. They can ask questions, play and sing songs… read more
I am very grateful for your help in my project. You are very petrified in the teaching process here. What you teach children here is very good. I hope the children here will be open minded and increasingly interested in learning English. What you convey motivates children to be brave and have big dreams.
Tetiana or we call her Tana.… read more
He is involved in many activities with the community so you can join him in any of them.
His family was also super kind and nice, his mum cooked delicious food everyday for us and we were… read more
Cristina was so kind, detail and friendly. She helped me a lot. We did a lot of activities around 10 days. We made English class, cooking class, movie screening, walked around and much more.
She is helpful and easy to adaptation with peoples here.
She liked to shared, educating other peoples and warm with… read more
I felt straight away an amazing connection with the whole family and whoever was around.
I can say that today I have a new family and a new place to call home, my heart got stolen by the genuine people who let me live wonderful days there.
If… read more
Fratello...
This man it's so incredible. Incredible? Absolutely Yes.
Stefano is very friendly person, easy to adapt with new people, love animal, have good respect with other people and very clearly to teach about English and coffee.
So grateful he can be volunteer and stayed here for 2 weeks. Unfortunately he just stayed… read more
Nathan had good manners, polite with older people. He gave a lot of help in… read more
Gideon is a very kind person who made me discover his life and project, as well as the Javanese culture and the area of Temanggung, where there is lots of things to do and to see.
His project of teaching english to the kids of his… read more
