WoodyEma

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Hello lovely people!

We are Woody & Emanuela and our toddler Aurora (2023) and baby Koko (2025), all living in the small village of Martvili on the countryside Georgia. In 2018 we bought an old house with a big garden on the Georgian countryside, renovated it with a lot of love and opened a boutique hostel.

You can check us out on instagram
https://www.instagram.com/karmahostelmartvili

Over the past years we hosted hundreds of Workawayers. They helped us with renovations, doing daily household chores, gardening and, of course, creating life in the hostel. It has been an amazing to experience how different personalities can become part of our little community and family and genuinely contribute to our project.

Our workaway page
https://www.workaway.info/en/host/647726157261

Now we are searching for interesting projects to give back some of the love we received over the years. We are slowly looking to move out of Georgia and set our minds on Spain. So we we are looking to explore beautiful places around Spain, spend time with other like-minded people and look for a place/community that feels like home.

Interests

LGBTQ

Videography

Sustainability

Performing arts

History

Animals

Culture

Fitness

Gardening

Adventure sports

Camping

DIY & crafts

Plant care

Nature

Outdoor activities

Self development

Water sports

Yoga / Wellness

Vegetarian or vegan

Pets

Music

Dancing

Events & social

Cooking & food

Carpentry

Art & design

Architecture

Farming

Languages spoken

English: Fluent
Dutch: Fluent
Polish: Fluent
French: Intermediate
Georgian: Intermediate
Russian: Intermediate

Skills and knowledge we'd like to share or learn

Some knowledge of:  

Eco Projects

Life at a Farmstay

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Able to teach about:  

Gardening

DIY and building projects

Creating/ Cooking family meals

Helping around the house

Hospitality/Tourism

General Maintenance

More details about your skills

What can we help with?

Over the years we gained a very broad range of skills. We love volunteering ourselves and hope to give you the same feeling of care and support we got from our volunteers.

As a couple we're very complimentary. Emanuela has the vision and creativity, Woody the energy and can-do mentality. In our hostel we've gotten pretty good at combining work and small kids — depending on the type of work of course.

Since we've been through the whole process of designing, building, maintaining, promoting and managing a hostel, we've gathered a lot of skills and experience to contribute to your project. We're efficient workers and take pride in doing a good job and finishing the work that we start. You can check our instagram above to see what we do

PERMACULTURE – Vegetable garden with raised beds according to permaculture methods, various veggies, different composting methods, herbs, edible flowers

COOKING – Both highly skilled in cooking vegetarian meals for big groups. Garden fruit jams, pickling, homemade lemonades, ketchups, etc

CLEANING – Eye for detail and high cleaning standards.

ONLINE BUSINESS PROMOTION (Emanuela) – Professional photographer and social media content creation to promote your hostel

HOSTEL MANAGEMENT - Managing our crew and group of volunteers, dealing with interpersonal conflict, making schedules, arranging tasks, supervising etc

LANDSCAPING – Designing a garden into distinct spaces using flower beds, paths, pruning trees & bushes etc

CONSTRUCTION WORK (Woody) – Stick welding (chairs and benches), woodwork (floors, kitchen bench and doors), electricity (laying & fuse box), plumbing (showers, pipes, toilets, pump installation), pouring concrete, bricklaying, children playground

DESIGN & ARTS (Emanuela) – Creating visually-attractive, comfortable and practical spaces typically with found/recycled materials, macramé, mosaics, murals, sewing clothes and quilts, pottery

KIDS (Woody) - I love playing with kids. We love involving our kids in our daily tasks. Every chore can be game if you make it playful

Age

33 & 37

What else ...

We are travelling with our 3 year old Aurora and 6 month Koko. She's very social and pretty easy-going, but it would be nice if there would be other similar-aged kids around to play with.

In our hostel we manage to do a lot of jobs with here around, either with her "helping" or just doing her thing, like cleaning, cooking, sewing, gardening etc — most things except for certain dirty or power tools jobs. Koko is pretty chill in his rocking chair.

Of course family life is not always predictable, so we do need a bit of flexibility scheduling wise. We're very responsible people nonetheless, so we'll make it happen :)

Some more information

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  Smoker

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  Driver's licence

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  Allergies

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  Special dietary requirements
  Emanuela is vegetarian, Woody eats meat from time to time but likes (and cooks) mainly vegetarian