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A collaborative experience; with a sustainable impact in Cabo Polonio, Uruguay

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  2025 

 Min stay requested: at least 2 weeks

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  • Description

    Description

    A Collaborative Experience: Purposeful, Sustainable Hospitality

    Our lodging is more than just a place for travelers — it’s a living project, shaped by the ideas of those who visit. We’re looking for creative individuals with an ecological mindset and an innovative perspective, who want to bring real value to a space in transformation.

    We welcome travelers with skills or interest in marketing, photography, sustainable design, or visual communication — people eager to contribute fresh ideas to help make this place a more appealing, authentic, and sustainability-focused destination. Whether it’s finding better ways to communicate our identity or capturing the essence of the surroundings through visual storytelling, every idea can make a meaningful impact.

    We especially value those who think outside the box: envisioning self-sustaining gardens, small artistic interventions, eco-tourism experiences, or strategies to attract conscious travelers. Your perspective could be the spark that inspires our next chapter.

    If you’re looking for a different kind of journey — one that connects you to the land, to real people, and to a shared purpose — we invite you to be part of this experience. It’s not just about staying here: it’s about building something together.


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    Nuestro alojamiento no es solo un espacio para viajeros: es un proyecto vivo que crece con las ideas de quienes lo visitan. Buscamos personas creativas, con conciencia ecológica y una mirada innovadora, que deseen aportar valor real a un espacio en transformación.

    Invitamos a viajeros con experiencia o interés en marketing, fotografía, diseño sustentable o comunicación visual, que quieran proponer ideas frescas para hacer de este lugar un destino atractivo, auténtico y alineado con los valores de la sustentabilidad. Desde pensar en cómo comunicar mejor nuestra identidad hasta ayudarnos a captar la esencia del entorno a través de imágenes, cada propuesta puede marcar una diferencia.

    Valoramos especialmente a quienes piensan fuera de lo convencional: quienes imaginan jardines autosustentables, pequeñas intervenciones artísticas, recorridos eco-turísticos o estrategias para atraer a un turismo más consciente. Aquí, tu mirada puede ser la chispa que inspire nuestro siguiente paso.

    Si estás buscando una forma diferente de viajar —una que te conecte con la tierra, con personas reales y con un propósito compartido—, te invitamos a formar parte de esta experiencia. No es solo hospedarte: es construir algo juntos.

  • 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
  • UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN goals
    No poverty
    Zero hunger
    Good health and well-being
    Quality education
    Gender equality
    Clean water and sanitation
    Affordable and clean energy
    Decent work and economic growth
    Industries, innovation and infrastructure
    Reduce inequality
    Sustainable cities and communities
    Responsible consumption and production
    Climate action
    Life below water
    Life on land
    Peace, justice and strong institutions
    Partnerships for the goals
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    The volunteers will benefit creatively by experiencing the astonishing beauty of this natural park. The lack of roads, cars, public lights, or big shops makes Cabo Polonio a magical community surrounded by dunes, sea life, sweet water, the atlantic ocean and a huge open sky. Moreover, this place has lots of natural resources and materials to create art from such as wood, clay, sand, stones, and more importantly, recycle materials to explore biorenewal art.

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    Los voluntarios se beneficiarán creativamente al experimentar la asombrosa belleza de este parque natural. La falta de carreteras, automóviles, luces públicas o grandes tiendas hace de Cabo Polonio una comunidad mágica rodeada de dunas, vida marina, agua dulce, el océano Atlántico y un gran cielo abierto. Además, este lugar tiene muchos recursos naturales y materiales para crear arte, como madera, arcilla, arena, caracoles, fósiles, piedras, cristales y, lo que es más importante, reciclar materiales para explorar el arte de la biorenovación.

  • Help

    Help

    Firstly and more important is cleaning! The place is small but we want it to be shining. Other tasks would include making beds, taking care of the recycling, gardening, dealing with guests and some general maintenance (building things or repairs). Moreover, art projects, painting, drawing, making signs, etc...

    There is some flexibility depending on the volunteers experience and abilities.

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    ¡Lo primero y más importante es limpiar! El lugar es pequeño pero queremos que brille. Otras tareas incluirían hacer camas, cuidar el reciclaje, jardinería, lidiar con huéspedes y algo de mantenimiento general (cosas de construcción o reparaciones). Además, proyectos de arte, pintura, dibujo, realización de carteles, etc.

    Existe cierta flexibilidad según la experiencia y las habilidades de los voluntarios.

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    English: Fluent
    Spanish: Fluent
    French: Fluent
    Hebrew: Fluent
    Portuguese: Fluent

    This 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

    Accommodation

    The volunteers will have their own room with bunk beds. We provide with clean bed sheets, covers, blankets, and towels.
    3hours a day max, 5 days a week= no food .................................................................................................................................................................

    Los voluntarios tendrán su propia habitación con cuchetas. Proporcionamos sábanas limpias, fundas, mantas y toallas.
    3hs al día max, 5 días a la semana, sin comida.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    We are in the center of Cabo Polonio and 20 meters away from the Calavera beach. We are energetically auto-sustainable based exclusively in wind and solar power. We grow all kinds of veggies as well as other herbs.
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    Estamos en el centro de Cabo Polonio y a 20 metros de la playa La Calavera. Somos energéticamente auto sustentables basados ​​exclusivamente en energía eólica y solar. Cultivamos todo tipo de verduras, así como otras hierbas.

  • 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

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    This host can provide space for campervans.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

Host ref number: 944269179174

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