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Evaluación del anfitrión
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18 mar 2024
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Descripción
We are a young(ish!) English family that moved to this wonderful part of Portugal to live a more simple and connected life. Our land has a house, an alternative school, preschool, ruins and lots of woodland. A small river runs round the side of it and leads up to a series of waterfalls about 1km away. It really is magical. We are searching for volunteers who have experience of working with children, growing veg, caring for animals and creating magic.
We have horses, donkeys, ducks, chickens and a dog. They are very friendly! We'd love someone with horse experience as we have two further horses at a wonderful riding centre too.
We expect help in return for good company, food and lots of life lessons sharing! We all have strong work ethics here but also know how to have fun, party ( a little) and laugh!
Accommodation is in our volunteer apartment and school 'office' which is in Espinhal village, 10 minutes walk from the school project with perfect internet and a cafe beneath it and very nice views.
There are plenty of people to mix with as there is a strong alternative commmunity with music nights, monthly market, cafes, art workshop and dance classes , and riding lessons. In winter it can get quiet due to the weather so you need to be Ok with quiet times too. There is always plenty of nature to explore and many kids and a team of 20 dynamic staff!
Minimum 2 month or ideally more needed but 2 week trial period for both host and workawayer
Our project serves 10 preschool children, 20 middle school children and now newly 20 secondary aged children in an incredible waterfall valley, with one classroom made entirely by the kids out of mud (cob).
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Proyectos artísticos
Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
Enseñanza
Jardinería
Construcción y bricolaje
Cuidado de animales
Ayuda en una granja
Ayuda doméstica
Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
NGO skills, education / teaching skills (we have trained Montessori teachers) gardening skills, animal care, growing organically, horse riding and donkey care, cob house building
Proyectos con niños
En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.
Ayuda
Right now our priority is someone who can work with our preschool age children 3-6 (Sep 2023)
We are in need of people to help with supporting the preschool children and older children too. The preschool needs 2 days of help and the rest of the project ad-hoc hours. There are always also jobs around the farm with animals and plants.
Idiomas
Idiomas hablados
Inglés: Fluido
Portugués: Intermedio
Español: Principiante
Francés: PrincipianteEste anfitrión ofrece intercambio de idiomas
Este anfitrión ha indicado que está interesado en compartir su idioma o aprender otro.
Ponte en contacto con él para obtener más información.
Alojamiento
We can offer a private room in an apartment in the village the village has cafes, cash machine, post office, restaurant and a good shop and bakers. This is 10 minutes walk from our property.
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Whilst our place feels like quite a remote rural retreat, it is only 1 km from the nearest small town - which has cafes, bank, shops, post office, buses etc. The waterfall is at the top of our valley and can be easily reached along a track above our house, and there are lots of beautiful river beaches nearby. Also close to us is the white-washed castle town of Penela and Portugal's third biggest city - Coimbra.
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Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
Puede acoger a nómadas digitales
Este anfitrión ha indicado que le encanta acoger a nómadas digitales.
¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?
Dos
Horas esperadas
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Comentarios (10)
I worked mostly with the kids helping at the school and looking after the girls
I learned a lot about alternative schooling, montessori activities and education in general. I also sometimes helped in the beautiful garden or with the animals (plenty of animals all more cute than the other… read more
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I worked mostly with the kids helping at the school and looking after the girls
I learned a lot about alternative schooling, montessori activities and education in general. I also sometimes helped in the beautiful garden or with the animals (plenty of animals all more cute than the other… read more
That’s is a special place made with special people, when that’s happens we put this word: family, a beautiful family.
Working with this lightning persons, include the kids was for me a time for cure myself after this pandemics time and bring sun again to my days.
Was a pleasure see the horses arriving, play with… read more
I can start to say that not only the family is wonderful, but the enviroment, the people involved in this educational project, the animals and children too. They are people with golden heart and open mind! Generous, funny, with the inner child alive (so, I realy identified and feel like… read more
A lovely guy and we would definitely recommend that others look to host him too.
They were also eager to give advice for things to see around the local area which had no shortage of… read more
It turned out to be pretty bad weather for most of our stay there (3 weeks) which meant we got to spend time helping out with the home schooling of… read more
