Homestays, Volunteering & Working Holidays in Portugal

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Dog rescue shelter in Portugal
PLEASE READ THE FULL PROFILE BEFORE APPLYING — AND CHECK THE CALENDAR FIRST Hi everyone, My name is Teresa, and I’m a retired English teacher from Portugal with a lifelong love for animals — especially dogs. Over 20 years ago, I began rescuing ......
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Join us at our vegan animal sanctuary in Palmela, Portugal
LOOKING FOR URGENT HELP FOR JULY/AUGUST - PLEASE READ THE WHOLE PROFILE BEFORE APPLYING 🙏 Hi everyone, My name is Alice, and together with my partner Noel, we run a vegan, abolitionist, feminist, interseccional non-profit NGO for the past 8 years ......
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Help with collaborative projects and pet sitting in a green valley in Central Portugal
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 ......
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Join us in the plant nursery and our house and plot with animals in the Algarve, Portugal
Our small farm in Algarve/Portugal is situated near Faro with cats, dogs and chicken. Help is needed with plants e.g. Frangipanis (weeding, repotting etc) and the house and the plot (painting, cleaning, cutting bushes and trees). We can offer a nice ......
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Join our family and help us with rescued horses in Sao Teotonio, Portugal
We are a family living in the SW Alentejo, Costa Vicentina, running a small rescue horse sanctuary in the middle of a forest, 12 km from the ocean. Our main passion is the care and rehabilitation of rescued horses — providing them with a safe and ......
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Activities with rescue horses and dogs in beautiful Alentejo, Portugal
We are a little farm and did rescue horses and dogs We stil take care of 10 rescue horses and 4 dogs ( horses and Dogs) in Portugal close to Evora • We did rescue animals, especially horses that are mentally, physically damaged, no longer welcome ......
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Help welcome at our dog shelter in a beautiful, mountainous and authentic part of the Eastern Algarve, Portugal
My husband & I moved to the Algarve in October 2016. Our home is situated within 5 acres of land. We run a registered dog shelter that also has charitable status. We love the workaway scheme which enables us to meet some truly amazing people and to ......
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Help at our animal welfare association on a farm in Sabóia, Portugal
Please contact us in German only. Hello! We are a German family living on a farm in southern Portugal. Steffi and Marko are around 60 years old and live with 10 dogs on part of our very large property. Next door lives our daughter Pia (33) with ......
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House and farm sitting on my little farm in the Distrikt Portalegre, Alentejo, Portugal
Hello altogether 🌞 Who has time and feels addresse I urgently need help to tidy up the garden, plant things, and also make the chicken run escape-proof 😜! I'm living here in the Alto Alentejo since fife years – live my dream of a free life in the ......
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House-sit my dogs and cats near the beach in Carcavelos, Portugal
My name is Geraldine, I am a therapist and travel frequently. My kids are all studying abroad so when I travel my dogs need petsitting. Walking four times a day. On the plus side, I live in front of the beach in Carcavelos. train takes 20 minutes to ......
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Help at an animal shelter in Alentejo, Portugal
I, Evelyn, have been living here in Portugal for 12 years. 10 years ago, after almost 15 years of animal welfare experience abroad, I started doing animal welfare here as well. Twelve Years ago I moved to Portugal. Ten years ago I started with my ......
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Help welcome at our sanctuary for senior and handicapped dogs in Catrâo, Central Portugal
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 ......
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Help with animals on a small farm by the sea, Sintra, Portugal
Small farm by the sea, with horses, pigs, dog, cats and other animals, it is also a bed and breakfast house for guests but not all year round. close access to three surfing beaches
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Beautify forests on an animal retreat in Almeida, Portugal
Clear bushes ✂️ , prune trees 🌳 and draw your own artworks on large outside walls 🎨 in a nearly wild mountain with an amazing view ⛰. You'll be doing the groundwork for the land to beautify itself, for the forest to grow healthy and, most ......
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Transformative experience at our animal sanctuary in Paredes de Coura, Portugal
Nestled in the countryside of Northern Portugal, is a refuge for animals in need. It is a non-profit NGO which is also a sanctuary for wild flora through the tireless work of Ivone, who manages the small organic farm and agroforestry project. We are ......
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Care for foster dogs and join me at my new home in Alfarelos, Portugal
I am English, a retired teacher and have just moved to a house in Alfarelos, Portugal. It needs a lot of work and there will will be builders around working on the exterior from September onwards so I shall need help with my FIVE dogs and generally ......
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Dog-sitting in Sagres, a small surfers paradise in the Algarve, Portugal
My name is Zara i live in Sagres, Portugal ,where i have a small quiet guesthouse. sagres is a small surf town, where the sun shines 365 days a year.
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Forestry, organic gardening and donkey love in Troviscais, Portugal
Hello everybody, So my place is a quiet place in a wild natural environment . For summer 25 most of the work will be involved around the gardens and living spaces, besides that there's also light forestry , which includes chopi'dropi, shredding ......
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Help us to create a donkey valley in the Algarve, Portugal
We are a family (2 "adults", 1 kid with 4 years and big boy with 15) Together with the Grandparents and two more lovely friends we share the dream of our own land and are at home for 15 years in Aljezur. We are lovely and caring people, living off ......
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Volunteer with horses at our non-profit association in Quinta do Anjo, Palmela - Setúbal - Portugal
We only accept volunteers for long term, at least 3 months and longer to one year. You also need to have some experience with horses. Please don´t write if you want to come for short periods of time. We are a non-profit association whose mission ......
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