Homestays, Volunteering & Working Holidays in Portugal

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Join our loving little family and lend a hand with childcare in the beautiful countryside near São Teotónio, Portugal
We are a small family consisting of Seema Jiwan and Prem Mandeep, along with our 3-year-old son Leopold. Our home is located in the beautiful Algarve in Portugal, on a 4-hectare piece of land. Surrounded by a stunning landscape, our property ......

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Vegan off-grid project in south west Algarve, Portugal
Hi Everyone! I’m Cindy, I'm part of a vegan off grid project in the south west Algarve, 8km from the nearest beach. I'd started working on an off grid set up before the land was burnt in a wildfire in 2020. The landscape and vegetation was ......

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Helping a young family with goats and land clearing in Amieira, Portugal
We are a family, Claire, Sheran and Sophia who are starting work on our own property in central Portugal. We are currently working with our neighbours clearing land to reduce fire risk in the area. We are looking for help with this and with walking ......

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Help organise community art workshops in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
I am an artist - simple illustrations + paintings. I'm also an arts coordinator - drawing and painting workshops. 1, This is a community art group. Art activities include drawing, music and creative writing in schools, libraries etc in Caldas da ......

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Volunteer in a NGO and help the local community in Lisboa, Portugal
[ENG] A humanitarian and social NGO. Founded in the 1950s in France by Abbé Pierre, the organisation has since then grown and developed around the world: today, there are 400 communities spread on four continents. Each of them has structured its ......

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Have a peaceful time while helping out on our family farm in Mora, Portugal
Hello everyone! We are a family of seven who loves socializing and getting to know other people and cultures. We bought this farm a year ago, and with no prior farming experience, we took on the challenge and have been doing our best to make this ......

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Come enjoy our lake, go for a walk or meditate in the hills of Aljezur, Portugal
##Please only react if you really plan to come, we don’t mind spending time to reply but only if it’s not in vain!## We are two Dutch families with five home-schooled children. In summer 2017 we bought a piece of land near Aljezur where we want to ......

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Help care for the animals and enjoy our peaceful smallholding in Alcafozes, Portugal
We are Tegan and Jimmy, an English couple living an off-grid lifestyle and striving to be self sufficient on our small holding in rural Portugal. We fell in love with the country whilst on our own work away adventure and are now enjoying living a ......

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Help with gardening and DIY project while experiencing village life in Cinfaes, Portugal
Hi i live in the Douro valley near the town of Cinfaes, my house is nestled in the junction of the Douro and Bestanca Rivers. It is an ideal area for all forms of nature, the walking and exploring is idylic. Life here is very traditional, local ......

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Come and help with our animals and easy DIY projects on our farm in Cercal do Alentejo, Portugal
Hello, we´re Maike and Kai from Germany, creating a coliving/ coworking space on our little farm in the middle of a tiny portuguese village, to share our dream of living and working in the alentejan countryside. We re both working part time ......

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Spend time in a stunning location and help out with our rustic condominium on the Silver Coast of Portugal
Apply for 2025 We are a retired couple from the UK and have three small traditional houses and one apartment in a stunning location on the Silver Coast overlooking the tidal Obidos lagoon – one of the most beautiful locations on the western ......

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Help us with permaculture in the village of Azenhas Do Mar, Sintra, Portugal
Sited on an exhausted vineyard overlooking the beach, this is a land regeneration & building restoration project using permaculture principles & sustainable methods. If you like to surf hard and work hard… this is the place for you. Our website is ......

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Join our family home and explore the Portuguese countryside, Vila Franca da Serra
After a great career in logistics and human resources, we (Tim, 45 years young & Saartje, 41 years young) decided in 2019 to pursue our dreams to the fullest. Our shared love for discovering other cultures, exploring fascinating fauna and flora as ......

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Help with some garden projects in the Azores, the Island São Miguel, Portugal
We are a Swiss couple, Agnes and Beatrice, soon to be 60 years old, and are living on this beautiful island, São Miguel, since 13 years. Our property is located in Ajuda da Bretanha, a little village, in the north-west of the island with direct sea ......
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Help us out with our two donkeys, organic vegetable garden while getting to know Portuguese culture in Olival
We are a Franco-Portuguese couple. Our job: tourist accommodation but we do a lot of other things , and that’s why we need help! We have donkeys , an organic vegetable garden, olive trees, an educational garden, and many projects! We have 2 dogs , 1 ......

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Stay with us at our farm house in the Algarve, Portugal
I usually need extra help in the fall harvesting olives, carobs and almonds but always grateful for an extra pair of skilled hands for projects around the house such as ice bath, sauna, van conversion etc..... I eat mainly vegetarian and local, ......

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Family project welcomes loving volunteers near Lajes, Portugal
Beautiful Souls, We (wild patchwork family with 4 kids) are looking for loving volunteers (all genders) to help on our land. We live in very simple conditions on 11 ha of land and are just starting a community/social project near Santa Clara (in ......

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Help on my off-grid land to become self-sufficient in Carlao, Portugal
In the summer of 2023 i purchased a small piece of land in the north of Portugal, just outside a village called Franzilhal, in the region of Vila Real, located about 40 minutes to the east of the main city of the region, which is also called Vila ......

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Help in the garden and woodlands near Coimbra, Central Portugal
Hi, I have a small holding in a beautiful area of Central Portugal. Apart from a garden I have a lot of woodland that needs to be kept clean. There is always something to do around the place. I need to construct shelters for a caravan and a tractor. ......
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Help us around the land in the Algarve, Portugal
We are a small family with two kids, who already left for university, one dog and three cats. We are interested in biology, ecology, and geology and spend most of our time and energy outdoors in setting up a sustainable project. Things like ......