Klaudia & Essan

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San Salvador, El Salvador - from Aug 2025 until Jan 2026
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🌿 Hi, I'm Klaudia! 🌿

A life enthusiast with a passion for healthy eating, movement, and personal growth. 💚 As a vegan, I love cooking, discovering new recipes, and being mindful of nutrition. 🍏🥑 But I also enjoy long walks in nature, working out, dancing, and staying active! 🏃‍♀️✨

Traveling, reading books, and watching movies help me explore the world and understand myself better. 📚🎬 I'm passionate about mindset and building a healthy relationship with food and the body.

Hi I'm Essan,

A life enthusiast with a wide range of interests and a passion for healthy eating, movement, and personal growth. As a vegan, I love experimenting in the kitchen and discovering new flavors. 🍏🥑 I also enjoy traveling, reading books, dancing, and watching movies—anything that broadens my horizons and helps me enjoy the moment! 🌍✨

Being in nature gives me energy, just like sports and long walks. But I’m also deeply interested in technology, geopolitics, economics, and finance—I love learning and exploring new ideas. And as a gamer, I enjoy diving into virtual worlds and fully immersing myself in the experience. 🎮📈
Interests
Pets
Languages
Photography
Events & social
Camping
Yoga / Wellness
Vegetarian or vegan
Technology
Team sports
Self development
Politics / Social justice
Outdoor activities
Nature
Music
Movies & TV
Hiking
Fitness
Dancing
Cooking & food
Books
Beach
Adventure sports
Animals
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Dutch: Fluent
Polish: Fluent
Persian (Farsi): Intermediate
Skills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn
We're interested in:
Charity Work
Art Projects
Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Life at a Farmstay
Babysitting and creative play
Helping around the house
General Maintenance
House sitting
Able to teach about:
Languages
Teaching
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Hospitality/Tourism
Helping with Computers/ Internet
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I am passionate about nutrition, mindset, and a healthy lifestyle. With experience in plant-based nutrition, I help others build a positive relationship with food and their bodies. I also have hands-on experience working in restaurants, giving me a deep understanding of food preparation and customer service.

In addition, I have a strong interest in personal growth and mental well-being, using my own journey to inspire and support others. I am highly organized and detail-oriented, with a background in finance and administration. Staying active is a big part of my life—I love walking, dancing, and fitness, knowing how movement benefits both body and mind.

With a mix of professional knowledge and personal experience, I am committed to helping others achieve a balanced and healthy lifestyle.

Furthermore Essan is knowledgeable about computers, food, sports, business, leadership. He likes to coach and teach.
Age
25 & 39
What else ...
Essan loves board games, strategy games and in general to learn new things. Klaudia sleeps a lot.
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- Driver's licence
- Allergies
- Special dietary requirements
  Vegan

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11 Aug 2025

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We spent 2.5 months at the beautiful place that Eric and Joelle have created in central of Portugal. The communication upfront was frank and nice and we had immediately a good connection with both of them. You do sense that they are caring and want to make sure that there is a good fit between your expectations and what they can offer. I found it… read more pleasant that there was a lot of room for your own wishes and that you can talk about it. After a good talk by phone we went there in May 2025 and were introduced to the 2 hectare of land and the communal house.

All kind of basic needs was there, from a good stocked kitchen of herbs, to the plentiful fresh garden of vegetables. The wifi was stable, fast also. Though you do have to bring biodegradable shampoo/toothpaste/soap, although they do make their own soaps. Electricity and water was also good, though they do like to put chlorine in their water in Portugal. Tip, go to the natural sources of water from the mountains, which there are in some villages surrounding Sobral (where they live). They have a small male cat which we do have to discuss: one of the best pet ever! Super cute and playful, foodie, and sleepy head.

The work itself was mainly DIY projects or work on the land. For instance taking care of the existing plants but also planting new baby's. Giving water especially in the dry season and brush mowing the long weed grass. It's all doable and you can discuss what your preference is, in what order you want to do something throughout the day and see which one has more priority. Freedom of choice but also autonomy is important for Eric, so if you're the kind of taking responsibility and care then it will work out for you. A typical day was about 4 hours work a day, with free weekends, although there were instances that we wanted to finish a project in the weekend. There is freedom to schedule your own work week. If you like to communicate, then you'll fit the place.

We are vegans ourself, that wasn't a problem at their place. Eric bought the groceries that we couldn't get from the land and was fine with getting the things that we needed, though we only wanted the basic plant-based foods like fruits and vegetables. We cooked mainly the daily dinner and shared it with them, which caused that we had nice talks at dinner time. We are talkers ourself and they too, so we shared a lot of stories, which Eric also really likes to do.

Eric is a wonderful human being which has a heart full of love, for plants, animals and other humans. He is kind of a hipi, spiritual soul which likes to share stories and help you out if you're struggling with something. One of his goals is to give you the possibility to learn new things which you can do on the land, from projects to taking care of plants. Joëlle is also lovely soul, which makes them both together very pleasant to interact with. She loves to teach you about permaculture and healthy eating/lifestyle. Spirituality is also important for her and if you need female help then you should definitely ask her. We are happy to have them meet and see them as our new friends in Portugal. We hope to have the opportunity to go back in the future to see how the place has shaped.

Good to know for the volunteer:
There is a compost toilet in the garden but also a bathroom of the communal house, though you can't flush toilet paper because the waste is made compost of.
Keep in mind that land attracts all kind of insects, for instance fly's and spiders. If you are very sensitive to this, then you should avoid this opportunity.
The washing liquid for the washing machine and the dish washing liquid they make themselves biodegradable.
The friendly neighbor has three dogs, which get exited sometimes and start to bark, though never at night.
There is a black cat in the village which fights with the pet cat at night now and then, which makes you suffer because you can't help out.
Keep in mind that you are like 40 minutes by car from the nearest city center, which makes it hard to get groceries for yourself or go to a restaurant for instance if you don't have a car.
About 17 individuals live in the village of Sobral, so don't expect a lot of social life and interaction.

In conclusion we found it a very beautiful place to stay in the mountains with a lot of variety of plants, flowers and animals. We really enjoyed the hikes from village to village throughout the mountains and enjoyed exploring the rustic houses of Portugal. We can recommend the host and place for anyone who likes to escape the city life and work with their hands.

Love Essan and Klaudia.

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