Help women's community with gardening or social media in Cochabamba, Bolivia

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  Description

  **We're currently looking for a long-term volunteer(s)!! Ideally 3 or more months to start ASAP!!**
  
  Community organization that helps women construct lives free from violence by joining them in community, healing, and transforming their adverse situations into lives of hope and inspiration for other women. With this mission, we focus especially on emotional strengthening and building economic independence.
  
  We are looking for volunteers who speak at least INTERMEDIATE SPANISH due to the solely Spanish Speaking nature of the connection with the women of our community and the tasks required from volunteers.
  
  We are looking for volunteers who are committed to gender equity, human rights, and social work and who can help us with housekeeping tasks and home improvement projects.
  
  We are also looking for a volunteer to supervise the women's children during events and meetings. Ideally with previous experience with/caring for children.
  
  We believe that every woman has the potential to move through their pain, suffering and isolation into full lives of community, joy, economic and emotional independence.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Charity Work

  Art Projects

  Language practice

  Help with Eco Projects

  Teaching

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Babysitting and creative play

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance

  Help with Computers/ Internet
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  UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  You will have the chance to meet many of the women who are involved in the association, and they are happy to exchange stories, skills, recipes etc.
  Previous volunteers have improved their Spanish, learnt new recipes, experienced Bolivian culture and made firm friendships 👭🫶🏽
  It is very important that you come with a self-starting attitude as sometimes there are more chaotic times, and we need you to get involved or suggest ideas for things you would like to do! We cannot always be tending to the wellbeing of our volunteers as we are a small team.

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  Tasks vary depending on the needs of the association and your skill set, but main tasks include:
  
  🫂CONNECTION: As a volunteer, you make up part of the Adelante Mujer community. It's important to be talk and spend time with the women of the community, helping them with their businesses, during events, or just hanging out.
  
  📸 PHOTOS AND SOCIAL MEDIA: Taking photos of our activities, including workshops, catering services, cooking workshops, and putting these photos up on our socials. At least every two days, we post on our social media pages so we are able to obtain more catering orders, cooking workshop requests, and so other women of Cochabamba can learn about our community.
  
  👩‍🌾 CARE FOR THE HOUSE: Watering the plants and vegetable garden, cleaning the house and sidewalks, and making sure the main salon is presentable for the activities we host.
  
  ❤️ All other tasks and help will be coordinated with the team. We encourage a FLEXIBLE and PROACTIVE attitude and welcome different ideas of how you can help us grow!
  
  Previous volunteers have helped us with:
  🌱Gardening and composting
  👩‍🎨 Art and music activities
  🥘 Cooking: collaborating with the women to learn new recipes and share your culture!
  🏡 DIY around the house
  👩‍💻 Communications, social media, outreach
  
  We would love to hear from you!

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  Languages spoken

  English: Fluent
  Spanish: Fluent

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  Accommodation

  You will have a shared room (up to 3 people, depending on how many volunteers are with us) with an en-suite (toilet, sink, shower) in the house of the association.
  Full access to the kitchen and the beautiful garden.
  The house is in a quiet and safe neighbourhood with everything you’ll need nearby, including shops, restaurants and parks.
  
  As the house is used for the association, you will cross paths with many women during the day. However, the nights are quiet.
  
  Generally we will not provide meals for volunteers.

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  What else ...

  Aside from being the capital of food 🥘, Cochabamba is a beautiful city with so much to offer. Below are some recommendations we have to experience Cochabamba whilst you are here:
  
  🌲 TUNARI PARK : a 2 hour trek finishing with a beautiful view of the city
  
  🗽 CRISTO : by foot (1 hour) or take a taxi/trufi and then you can walk up the stairs (1 hour up and 1 hour down) or there is a cable car.
  
  🌊 LAGUNA : near the cristo, accessible via foot or you can rent a bike
  
  🏛 CITY CENTER : Museo d’Orbinig, Palacio portales, Casona de Santivanez
  
  💦 CASCADAS : cascada Gemelas de Apote (trufi 106), Centre turistico K’achi (bit further from the city), la Pajcha (sacaba)
  
  Towns nearby: Tarata, Punata, Sipe Sipe

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Can host digital nomads

  There is plenty of space in the house; we are in a quiet neighbourhood with wifi.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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