Come and help on our family farm near Georgetown, Guyana

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  Descripción

  We are a family living between Guyana, South America, London and New York. Each member play a role in the building and running of the farm, from running a food business, running cane juice stand, doing organic farming, looking after the cows, building and everything in between. But there is never enough hands!! The farm is a Family effort that aims to provide our family and visitors with a healthy, virgin rainforest space where to live, visit, learn and work. But the project is growing: as part of the family runs a charity in London, UK, dedicated to help people to return and get closer to Nature the aim is also to build a sustainable, permaculture oriented heaven to produce fully organic vegetable produce and hand made products to supply the neighbouring housing schemes and beyond with affordable, varied and quality vegetables, fruits and herbs. The area (and the city as a matter of fact) currently depends on highly processed food supplied by supermarkets having this a very rapid and negative impact on health population. We also plan to run workshops and cultural & skills exchange for locals and foreigners alike, being ourselves a world schooling family constantly seeking opportunities to learn, teach and exchange intergenerational and international knowledge.
  The farm, although located right outside Georgetown, is positioned within a farming area, with very few neighbours, and immersed in a pollution free zone, where nature abunds. From farm, a 15 minutes bicycle ride will take you to main road where there is plenty shops and buses passing often connecting with Georgetown (15-20 min to town's market) and Linden highway.
  At the moment the water that surrounds the land had been helped to run through the land so planting has started!
  
  The farm is less hot at nights than in town and staying overnight provides a full pleasant immersion in nature, in a safe environment.
  Update January 2024:
  At the moment we count with running water, electricity and internet connection but nevertheless the wildlife is abundant.
  We are currently working on building accommodation for the family and workawayers alike and need lots of ideas and skilful people to help plan this as sustainable as possible with a long term vision. We need to plan plumbing and ideas on reusing and cleaning grey water and irrigation systems, and general building help.

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  Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos

  Jardinería

  Construcción y bricolaje

  Cuidado de animales

  Ayuda en una granja

  Cuidado de niños y juegos creativos

  Cocinar para toda la familia

  Ayuda doméstica

  Mantenimiento general
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  Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  The family has a vast knowledge on organic, natural methods of agriculture and farming as well as learning about living in harmony with nature and the rainforest biodiversity. You can also learn a lot about running local food business, recipes, cooking in the fire, etc, about local life and diverse culture of Guyana, world-schooling/homeschooling/unschooling from a 23 years experienced family, languages and about travelling in South America between Guyana and Argentina by land and much more.
  We are interested in learning from other people's experiences, new sustainable farming/building techniques specially suitable for tropical areas.

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  Proyectos con niños

  En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.

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  Ayuda

  At this stage help is required for a wide range of activities: planting, watering, building, designing/creating building systems of irrigation and other sustainable systems specially following permaculture principles; grazing cows, harvesting and low processing of vegetables (such as sun dry tomatoes etc), driving from town to farm, shopping, helping in the kitchen, scrapping sugar cane, looking after 1-2 children, running errands, helping with house maintenance. Please note that you have to be willing to do more than one of the jobs mentioned above as required depending on season.
  Many of the jobs are physically demanding, although the high sun is avoided, weather in Guyana is very hot and humid; but you will be looked after by whoever member of the family you'd be working with and we will trust your judgement of capability, there's always another job that might suit you better.

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas hablados
  Inglés: Fluido
  Español: Fluido
  Italiano: Fluido
  Portugués: Intermedio

  Este 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.
  
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  Alojamiento

  Volunteers will either stay in the farm, in simple cabins with mosquito net hammocks or in a room in the family house in Georgetown, depending on the jobs you'll be doing.
  Meals are usually shared with the family, always vegetarian, preferably vegan (Ital), either cooked together or from the family's food shop. At the farm there's a cob cooker where you can prepare your own meals and in the house a portable cooker will be available for volunteers to do own meals. All ingredients can be provided.

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  Algo más...

  From the farm you can reach main town's market (15-30 min ride) to commute to any other bus to visit museum, different markets, shopping area/malls, botanical gardens and zoo, seawall, national park etc. But from the main road you can also get transportation to go over the Demerara river or in the opposite direction to Linden highway, where the most beautiful natural swimming spots of rich, full of properties, black water creeks are.
  The family will be happy to show you, take you or go with you to different places, other towns, local events, etc. in your free time, whenever they can.
  Guyana also offers beautiful waterfalls, thick ancient rainforests, tropical savannah, endless and powerful rivers and a multicultural history to explore.
  Contrary to the media's endless reports on crime, Guyana is not a dangerous country and we believe that if you are willing to learn from local customs you will find beautiful people and memories for a life time. As workawayers ourselves we reject the idea of doing tourism but to embrace cultural exchange and learning experiences during travelling.
  The family will be happy to show you the do's and don't s for your stay to be safe and enjoyable.
  As Guyana economy is very rapidly growing there’s multiple new modern spaces, opportunities and adventures available and new ones popping up regularly; we cannot catch up ourselves!

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  Un poco más de información

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    Acceso a Internet

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    Acceso a Internet limitado

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    Tenemos animales

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    Somos fumadores

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    Puede alojar familias

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  Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

  We have just installed unlimited and stable Wi-Fi connection.

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  ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

  Más de dos

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  Horas esperadas

  Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week