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If you are from outside of the EU and planning to visit Portugal to work, volunteer or study, YOU WILL NEED THE CORRECT VISA. To find out more information please contact the embassy in your home country BEFORE travelling.

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Creating a non-profit circus school and permaculture garden near Nazaré, Portugal

✨🎪WELCOME! 🎪✨ ⚡HELP US RECOVER FROM THE AFTERMATH OF STORM KRISTIN⚡ We are in the very beginning phases of creating a beautiful Circus School, Theatre and Permiculture Garden at the edge of a small Portugese Village. Out here it is a mix of hard ......

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Help us with some DIY projects and daily life in Sertã, Portugal

We are Robert and Asheba, in 2020 we left Holland to retire in Sertã , we have a cat she enjoys roaming our and our neighbours- land. Our three grown up children live and work in The Netherlands. One project that was offered is Cambridge English ......

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Non-profit off-grid camp project in Tinalhas, Portugal

Hey, I’m Dan. This place is in a transition phase right now. I’m reorganizing everything here and preparing to move the bigger vision to Ghana. So this is not a typical “community project.” It’s more simple: we work together a few hours a day, get ......

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Join us creating a soap studio in paradise near Tomar, Portugal

Hello! We are a family of three and we live at a lovely quinta close to Tomar. The quinta is work in progress, we live here with our boy of four years old, two dogs, chickens, goats, two terrace cats and lots of visitors on the edge of a tiny ......

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Join us out at our family Quinta with varied projects near Tomar, central Portugal

Welcome….. Hi, I am Janine , my partner Terry both originally from the UK, we have two boys of 11 and 12yrs old and we live on a Quinta (tiny farm) in central Portugal next to the country's second biggest lake Castello Do Bode. We own 2 acres of ......

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Join us on our off-grid land living project near Aldeia de Santa Margarida, central Portugal

Hi We’re David (33) and Patrick (44) two friends who met at a plant medicine ceremony in Scotland five years ago and have stayed close friends ever since. We share a vision of creating a meaningful life project together here in central ......

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Help with some outdoor planting projects and join our family near Castelo Novo, Portugal

We are a couple with 2 daughters. Our move to the country side serves the purpose of having a new experience. Although we continue to work remotely, we are developing our knowledge about gardening, farming and land care. In a near future we also ......

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Stay on our family farm with goats and other animals in Seia, central Portugal

We are David & Eli, a Belgium couple and since 2014 we live and work on our 12 hectare beautiful land with view on the Serra da Estrellla mountains. We have cats, dogs, chickens, ducks and goats and we have a (seasonal) organic fruit and vegetable ......

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Help welcome for young family and farm near Castelo Branco, Portugal

UPDATE: LOOKING FOR HOUSESITTERS FOR 22ND OF MAY UNTILL THE 2ND OF JUNE Hello dear readers, Welcome! My name is Steef, and I live in the countryside near Castelo Branco. My children and I share a piece of land in a peaceful, natural setting. My ......

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Join our summer tribe and take part in contributing to our vision in Gonçalo, Portugal

Hi, and welcome to my workaway profile! I am Luca, 45 yo mixed race, half Italian half Philippino. In the past 4 years, since moving to Portugal, I have been learning, and I still am, how to craft a new lifestyle, after getting myself a 5ha ......

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Learn about permaculture and enjoy an off grid adventure near Oliveria do Hospital, Portugal

Are looking for a longer term escape in nature- back to basics, un-plug from the world and re-connect to your wilder side - or maybe you are interested in a taste of living off grid and what it really means! (we ask for a mimimum two week stay, but ......

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Learn new skills and explore the local villages in the beautiful Beira Litoral, Portugal

Hi ,my name is Alex I am Portuguese ,my husband Julian is English and we live in a large slightly rundown 18th century manor house near to Anadia in the centre of Portugal with our extended family of 21 dogs, 15 cats and 5 Guinea pigs and we have ......

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Come and gain experience of sustainable practices with our family in Algodres, Portugal

We are a family of three. Kayley, Rick and our son Martin. We have lived in Portugal since 2018 but come from The UK. We moved here to start a family and live more sustainably. We always have plenty to do so if you’re looking for a long stay or ......

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Live in nature and help around our family home in Coimbra, Portugal

I'm a 18old teen but my parents have 54 an 66 years and we could use help at home, my mom is a nice lady , she needs help at our home because it's too big for her to take care alone, and we are nice people so come and join us

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A syntropic farm and garden experience , good food and comfortable living in Tomar, Portugal

We are an international couple in our early sixties. We live on a farmstead in the Ribatejo area of Portugal, 5km from Tomar. We have travelled, worked, and lived in many parts of the world but have now decided to settle here since 2020 and to ......

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Transform the education in my city, teaching in nature and creative ways in Vestiaria, Portugal

Hi, I'm Margarida,a mom full of big dreams to transform the education in my town. I have a project of nature activities for children, where a small family community meet together every month to play free in the woods. Now i'm starting a journey to ......

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Enjoy nature, eco-projects, beekeeping and gardening in rural Benfeita, Portugal

~ This spring we will be preparing our communal gardens, preparing and checking beehives, putting bee boxes up to catch swarms and do more tree planting on my new piece of land to turn it into a fruit yard. Also work on the house as this is a work ......

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Help me with projects at my countryside house near Sertã, in central Portugal

My name is Pedro and I'm a freelancer graphic designer & illustrator living in the bucolic county of Sertã deep in the Portuguese countryside. It was in the inspiring depths of Portugal that I chose to reinvent myself. Among quietness, rurality and ......

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Become a co-creator on our land and learn about the principles of permaculture in Sobral, Portugal

For the month of May , we would like to dry medicinal plants and maintenance of the fruit- & vegetable garden and still continuing to seed and planting. Our chickens deserve a new fence also and we will make also a construction for holding our ......

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Help around our peaceful household and enjoy pool and countryside in Antanhol, Portugal

We live in a peaceful village 7 minutes by car from Coimbra. We love exercising and argentine tango. I am vegan, and my wife is vegetarian. We love healthy nutrition. We are a bit introverts, a bit extroverts and we care about people. Next to the ......

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Enjoy island life while helping with DIY projects and caring for dogs in Sao Miguel, Azores

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mondego river off-grid farm in Povoa de Midoes, Portugal

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Sustainable project to restore a family farm in Alto Alentejo Serra de S.Mamede Natural Park, Portugal

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Ahoy pirates, come join us and help us prepare our boat in Porto De Pesca, Portugal