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PLEASE NOTE! This is a one-time volunteer program. Our next dates are December 4, 2025, to December 25, 2025. Please do not apply for another date, we will not respond.
Our accommodation is one of the few options in Santo Amaro that escape from the noisy town center. Instead, we're in a large area, surrounded by nature and tranquility. We're located between the town's main square and the National Park entrance. This area of the park near Santo Amaro is where you'll find the most abundant and beautiful lagoons, which are accessible even by foot from the pousada.
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ATENÇÃO! Este é um programa de voluntariado esporádico. Nossas próximas datas são de 04/12/2025 a 25/12/2025. Por favor não aplique para outra data, nós não vamos responder.
Nossa acomodação é uma das poucas opções de Santo Amaro que fogem do centrinho barulhento da cidade. Estamos em uma área grande, rodeada de natureza e tranquilidade. A localização é estratégica, entre a praça principal da cidade e a entrada para o Parque Nacional. Essa parte do parque, próxima a Santo Amaro, é onde você encontra as lagoas mais bonitas e abundantes. Dá pousada, é possível chegar nas primeiras lagoas até a pé
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Our project is eco, so you can learn about the techniques we use here: adobe, wattle & daub, evaptranspiration basin, home-made solar heaters, wooden structure, thatch roof...
In your free time, you'll be in the perfect location to explore the most amazing lagoons of Lençóis Maranhenses: Santo Amaro do Maranhão.
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Nosso projeto é ecológico, então você pode aprender sobre as técnicas que usamos aqui: adobe, pau-a-pique, fossa de bananeiras, aquecedores solares caseiros, estrutura de madeira, cobertura de palha...
No seu tempo livre, você estará no lugar perfeito para explorar as lagoas mais incríveis dos Lençóis Maranhenses: Santo Amaro do Maranhão.
Help
We will be accepting volunteers from December 4, 2025, to December 25, 2025, when the lodge will be closed to guests and our staff will be on collective vacation. This is the time to carry out necessary renovations and maintenance.
What we want to do with the help of our volunteers:
- Build the wattle and daub walls of a new bungalow we are building: position wooden poles to create the wall structure, mix the mud, and place it between the poles.
- Perform necessary maintenance on the existing bungalows: light painting, varnishing, making wooden accessories, etc.
We'll also need volunteers to cook for the other volunteers, clean the volunteer kitchen, and take care of everyone's laundry. If you'd rather do any of these tasks than help in the construction site, you can stay on a permanent basis. If no one else does, we'll create a volunteer roster.
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Receberemos voluntários de 04/12/2025 a 25/12/2025, quando a pousada estará fechada para hóspedes e nossos funcionários terão férias coletivas, então é o momento para fazermos reformas e manutenções necessárias.
O que queremos fazer com a ajuda de nossos voluntários:
- Construir as paredes de pau-a-pique de um novo bangalô que estamos construindo: posicionar varas de madeira criando a estrutura das paredes, misturar o barro e colocá-lo entre as varas.
- Fazer a manutenção necessária nos bangalôs existentes: pintura, envernizamento, confeccionar acessórios de madeira, etc.
Também precisaremos de voluntários para cozinhar para os demais voluntários, limpar a cozinha e cuidar d alavanderia de todos. Se você preferir ficar com alguma dessas funções do que trabalhar nas obras, pode ficar fixo. Se ninguém preferir isso, faremos uma escala de voluntários.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
Portuguese: 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'll stay in one of our bungalows. Breakfast included, the other meals are your responsability and we're free to use our kitchen.
Você ficará hospedado em um dos nossos bangalôs. Café da manhã incluído. As outras refeições são por sua conta e você pode usar nossa cozinha.
What else ...
How to get here: coming from São Luís, there's a transfer twice a day, for R$100,00. They pick you up wherever you are and drop you here.
What to do: From Santo Amaro you can take a number of tour to visit the lagoons. Some are half day and othersthe whole day. In some you go by car or quad, in others you take a boat or walk.
In town, you can walk to beautiful river beaches.
You can also take a transfer to Barreirinhas, take a boat down to Atins, and walk from there to Santo Amaro, crossing the whole park of Lençóis Maranhenses. You must do this with a guide and sleep in hammocks in native villages on the way.
We'll work Monday to Friday. On weekends, we'll be organizing tours to the laggons with all the volunteers for affordable prices.
Como chegar: vindo de São Luís, o transporte é feito de van, duas vezes por dia, a R$ 70,00. Eles buscam onde você estiver e te deixam aqui.
O que fazer: de Santo Amaro, saem passeios para várias lagoas. Alguns passeios são de dia todo, outros meio dia. Alguns são de carro 4x4 ou quadriciclo, outros de barco ou a pé.
Na cidade, você pode ir caminhando até as praias de rio, lindas e deliciosas.
Você também pode ir para Barreirinhas, pegar um barco para Atins e caminhar atravessando o parque todo dos Lençóis Maranhenses terminando em Santo Amaro. Você precisa estar acompanhado de um guia, e dorme em redes em vilarejos nativos no caminho.
Nós vamos trabalhar de segunda a sexta. Nos fins de semana, organizaremos passeios para as lagoas com todos os voluntários, por valores acessíveis.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have decent wi-fi connection and comfortable tables and chairs. You can find a spot to be on your own too, but there's usually some noise throughout the day. Temos internet boa e mesas e cadeiras confortáveis. Você consegue achar também um cantinho para ficar sozinho, mas geralmente tem barulho da obra ao longo do dia.
Space for parking camper vans
We have a parking lot of front of the inn, but so far it's only accessible by 4x4, since it's a sand road. Temos vagas de estacionamento na frente da pousada, mas no momento ela só é acessada por 4x4, pois a rua é de areia.
Can possibly accept pets
We accept animals as long as they don't fight with other animals that live around here.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
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The place: it's a small paradise. Wooden bungalows, pool, beautiful flowers and palm trees; it's been fantastic to be able to stay there for 3 weeks and chill in such a lovely scenery before and after work. We absolutely loved the village. Santo Amaro is great, tiny, safe and chill.
Privacy: we are a couple and we were given a private bungalow,… read more
Quand je suis arrivée en fin d'après-midi, elle m'a remis les clés et montré mon bungalow. Grâce aux bénévoles déjà sur place et qui m'ont expliqué les techniques de bio construction utilisées, j'ai trouvé le projet super… read more
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The place: it's a small paradise. Wooden bungalows, pool, beautiful flowers and palm trees; it's been fantastic to be able to stay there for 3 weeks and chill in such a lovely scenery before and after work. We absolutely loved the village. Santo Amaro is great, tiny, safe and chill.
Privacy: we are a couple and we were given a private bungalow,… read more
Quand je suis arrivée en fin d'après-midi, elle m'a remis les clés et montré mon bungalow. Grâce aux bénévoles déjà sur place et qui m'ont expliqué les techniques de bio construction utilisées, j'ai trouvé le projet super… read more
Sur nos heures de travail, on faisait des choses différentes chaque jour pour aider à la construction /… read more
He was cleaning the yard, helping firstable cleaning a hole for the sewage-eco system and then helping the mason building up the walls.
He was an excelent volunteer, Ary was Always ready to help at whatever time and whatever job.
He was helping with Woodwork, it shows that he can work in group with others… read more
Ernesto est très sympathique et explique bien ce qu'il faut faire. Il pourra aussi… read more
