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 you need to contact the embassy in your home country BEFORE travelling.
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Workawayers needed
Possibility that workawayers are needed
No availability
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Meaning of this:
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I am still settling into my new house. Gardening and lots of small DIY chores that cannot be done by local professionals. You need absolutely skills for chopping kindling and sawing and stacking firewood. The last bits of indoor painting when the ......
Hi! I’m a 27-year-old who last year bought a piece of land on my own in the Oeste region of Portugal. I’m starting everything from scratch, and my dream is to create a livable space where I can welcome people and begin a project of syntropic ......
We are looking for people to stay with us for 2026 to help with compost, implementing permaculture design, planting, building, etc.
Free water, electricity, internet, access to veggie garden, chickens, etc
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At the foot of the highest mountain ......
We are Tim and Nicola (Nic but never Nicky!)
We have had numerous travel experiences which we hope to continue and be able to share our stories with others.
We have both spent many years working overseas from inside the Arctic Circle (in winter) ......
** LOOKING FOR LAND SITTER LONG TERM OVER WINTER FROM NOVEMBER ~ APRIL** You will have our beautiful land to yourselves, we have a lovely accommodation, cosy bus with kitchen and burner. You need to love cats as we have two cats that need caring for ......
Hey fellow adventurers!
We’re Simone (34), Salah (33), and our wild little daughter Yara (4), living the good life somewhere between “off-grid dreams” and “where did all this chicken poop come from?”
Simone’s Dutch roots run deep—especially in the ......
english
A project that aims to combine organic vegetable and animal production with tourism and community work.
I AM LOOKING FOR A LONG-TERM VOLUNTEER, but I also accept volunteers for shorter periods.
We have officially certified organic ......
Hello, nice you find us here. My name is Frank. Together with my son I went to Portugal in 2020 to pursue my dream of reforesting former agricultural land. We plant domestic trees to restore biodiversity, to reduce CO2 and to combat desertification. ......
We are a group of 12 friends from Germany, who bought a piece of rural land with a big old ruin close to the Serra da Estrella. We came here to live closer to nature and to have more opportunities of personal development.
Together we are learning a ......
Hi! We are James & Issy (From Ireland and England), and currently reside in the beautiful magic mountains (montanhas mágicas) region in central Portugal with our dear friends Svit and Stan (from Ukraine), plus our amazing three cats (Bear, Mocha and ......
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 ......
Hello work-awayer,
let me introduce ourselves, our visions and our daily live:
We are living in a peaceful neighborhood together with a group of families with homeschooled kids between 6-10.
Our off-grid farms are settled in a lovely green ......
This farm is owned by Amelia whose lifelong dream was waking up every day to donkeys on a farm and whose dream has come true!!!
We have a large double story house (well I think it's a mansion! And live in a little village far enough away to feel ......
It is a beautiful 2 hectare farm with stunning views of Estrella Mountain and the surrounding valleys. We have here a drinking water spring , fire bath, bamboo forest, oak forest, a well, eco toilet, clay oven and a community event space called A ......
We are a group of Permaculture teachers, gardeners, natural builders and health practitioners. We function as a Cooperative, on anon-profit basis and as self-sustainable as possible. Four years ago we followed through on our big dream, to settle in ......
Changing our environment in central Portugal into a more sustainable micro-world. We are a gay couple doing vegetable and floristic gardening in an ecological way. The gardening we do for our fun (physically and mentally) and for our own ......
If you have plumber skills and can help us before the yoga retreat that starts on the 22nd of September 2025 to change some taps, repair leaks, a toilet, a sink, etc. we welcome you with open arms! Professional plumbers are not easy to find in the ......
Hello, hello,
My name is Mieke and I am the happy and proud owner of a very beautifull, small and cozy campsite in Central Portugal. Because of my busy life I'm looking for volunteers to help me with the maintenance in general, there is always ......
Ola beautiful people,
We are looking for some nature loving people on our magnificent quinta bordering the magical mystic Dao river in Caldas De Sangemil “central Portugal” 20min from Viseu city.
Hello, my name is Irene and I have a Sanctuary, a non-profit organization, for senior dogs, dogs who are sick and need extra care, and dogs with a handicap. We also have other animals; horses, cat Simba, goat Max, and chickens.
It all started in ......
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 you need to contact the embassy in your home country BEFORE travelling.
House / pet sitting
Cultural exchange
