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Hi we are Jimbo (Ismael) and Toma !
Ismael is half Spanish, half Moroccan and grew up on the West coast of North Morocco : "After opening a hostel with friends in my hometown Asilah, I wanted to create my own place in the countryside to realise my heart project. My vision is to live in a sustainable place for living and creation, together with friends and people from all around the world with the goal to form a community that exploring different arts. Ultimately I want a haven to share ideas and provide a cultural exchange in a beautiful and inspiring natural setup close to the wild Atlantic Ocean." Ismael speaks Spanish, English & Darija.
Toma is Belgian native and has lived in the North Moroccan countryside for 5 years, enjoying the cultural exchanges, the sweet weather, the chill life and the good surf. This wasn't enough so he teamed up with Jimbo to help him on his project since 2022... "As a yoga enthusiast I hope to make this place a safe haven for people fed up with the fast life." Toma speaks English & French.
Ismael & Nina began the project in September 2016 and since then we have been working on the infrastructure. This includes a dry toilet, bathroom, the first a cob-straw cabin, an outdoor kitchen, water reservoir, fireplace, fences, electricity, water system, and planting.
While we are not specialists in building or agriculture, we are passionate in learning by doing and being hands on. We are deeply interested in different sustainable systems like permaculture and ecobuilding techniques which we base our project on. We use different methods of building with the resources we have and we’re also open to learn from people who bring with them their experience or special skills.
Our project is an experimental place with the vision to create a sanctuary space for freedom, wellbeing and cultural exchange in arts, sustainable architecture and permaculture. We are dreaming of a place where we can live and work closer together with nature and the environment, test innovative concepts, create spaces which are inspiring and have fun !
We are naturally ecological without being dogmatic. We do our best to do what goes in the direction of nature and human preservation. We love to discuss about it and sometimes the good choice is not always the one that looks the most ecological. 🍃
The next steps we hope to achieve in winter 2022 are :
• Cleaning and renovating parts of the farm and buildings
• Planning and refreshing vegetable gardens
• Landscaping, reproducing plants for ornemental gardens
• Making the space more comfortable for everybody to stay all seasons long.
Several construction works in the mid term :
• a workshop : to work comfortably on all our projects
• a dorm and summer showers : to host more volunteers
• 3 rooms and a cabin : for hosting more people
• a yoga temple : to host events and retreats
• a chicken house and a kennel : for animal management
• a housing unit for the guardian, a market and logistics
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Proyectos artísticos
Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
Jardinería
Proyectos de construcción y bricolaje
Ayuda en una granja
Cocinar para toda la familia
Ayuda doméstica
Hostelería/turismo
Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
The countryside of North Morocco offers you a wild and raw moroccan experience. We will explore different souks together hunting for secondhand stuff and visit places without many or any tourists, to find building materials. Sometimes we will have dinner with friends in the farm or in the countryside, going to the beach, surfing with plenty of exploration to new places looking for specific building materials. This project will be full of variety, hard work and will always be an adventure with us.
Ayuda
We are looking for peopel in our community with developper and creation minds who have fun and being passionated to move and change parts of our project. We host volunteers who can join our community for minimum one month or longer.
Help required will be often dirty and requires hard work, so we want people who arent afraid to work hard and get stuck in. We want to work with people who care about our project and place and want to share and learn together.
If you are genuinely interested in this kind of project and work, and you are an openminded head who is not scared of a complete other cultural experience than Europe, then you will certainly enjoy this experience with us in Morocco. The countryside and its beauty is rough, animals roam freely on the farm dogs, chickens, sheep, donkeys and cows. We live a simple live here and we still improvising with a creative mind to get solutions even with a very small budged.
Our workspace is also a fun place and we strive to ensure everyone is happy and enjoys their time at our place. We appreciate volunteers with certain skills in wood working, construction experiences, gardening/farming knowledge but also welcome handymen or women who are seeking a new working experience away from the hectic city life and dive into a scout lifestyle.
Our volunteers are responsible preparing breakfast, lunch and dinner with the food we find weekly in the local markets and to keep the place always clean. If somebody needs a special diet (vegan) please take into that we can't effort that in our organisation so you have to organise and buy special products (Sojamilk etc.) you need by yourself. As well we can't effort to buy meat or luxury products for the volunteers.
It would be great if you can bring good working clothes with you especially shoes that you dont mind getting dirty. If you need us to find you clothes for work just let us know beforehand. If you need special clothing (Boots, working gloves, Glasses etc you need to organise it by yourself).
Idiomas
Idiomas hablados
Inglés: Fluido
Español: Fluido
Francés: FluidoEste anfitrión ofrece intercambio de idiomas
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Alojamiento
We are living in the farm in el Houmr (15min by car from Assilah, with Bus 7min and 30min of walking from the main road). We offer you a place in a shared cabin with other volunteers of the farm. You also have the possibility to camp or put your hammock in the trees. The volunteer house includes a simple outside kitchen which is praticable for most Moroccan's sunny days. There is a dry toilet to take care of and an inside shower. Water and electricity are a luxury and we shower mostly with cold water.
Algo más...
On weekends volunteers are self responsible and have time to travel or hang out in the volunteer area.
The area around Asilah has wonderful beaches you can visit in your free time and plenty of small villages to explore. Cities like Tangier, Tetouan, Chefchaouen, Fes and Meknes also make a great weekend trip. The transport connection from Assilah to other cities is quite good. Assilah has a train station so you can easily get to Rabat, Casablanca and Marrakech with daily services running frequently. There is also a bus stop with a local bus (10 MAD) going to Tangier every 20mins otherwise you can take a shared taxi (25 MAD) to Tangier.
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Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
Puede acoger a nómadas digitales
Digital nomads are welcome although we don't provide internet access, you have then to get your Maroc Telecom phone card (5GB=50dh). Also we don't have proper clean desks to work on but we have shaded area and a stunning view ! 🌅
Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas
Parking space is available on site and campervans are welcome 🚐 We run on well water (not drinkable) and brings tap water 🚰 from Assilah frequently, so it is good if you can fill up before arriving here.
Podría aceptar mascotas
We already have 2 wonderful dogs, Suzy🐕 & Pilon 🐶 and a friendly cat, Lucy🐈. It might be a little tricky to bring a male dog into this equation. So we don't want to say no but it needs discussion about your pet's character.
¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?
Más de dos
Horas esperadas
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Comentarios (24)
They helped for various tasks ranging from digging plant beds to moving trees. When they arrived I could say that they looked a bit tired, but with time their motivation grew and they were asking for more hard work later on, we spent good moments together. Guys you will be remembered here as the… read more
They helped for various tasks ranging from digging plant beds to moving trees. When they arrived I could say that they looked a bit tired, but with time their motivation grew and they were asking for more hard work later on, we spent good moments together. Guys you will be remembered here as the… read more
gracias por todo.
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They helped for various tasks ranging from digging plant beds to moving trees. When they arrived I could say that they looked a bit tired, but with time their motivation grew and they were asking for more hard work later on, we spent good moments together. Guys you will be remembered here as the… read more
They helped for various tasks ranging from digging plant beds to moving trees. When they arrived I could say that they looked a bit tired, but with time their motivation grew and they were asking for more hard work later on, we spent good moments together. Guys you will be remembered here as the… read more
gracias por todo.
Although We offered them accommodation they decided to sleep in their tent. Always smiling, always available. Waking up early for work and taking the whole group with them.
They are strong, skilled and have good… read more
Thank you for coming and live with us for a little while.
You are a very sweet and caring person, also you like to do everything yourself, even if it is a hard task, this attitude is really appreciated.
The weather was not always at its best and I never heard complaints from you.
Of course your architecture skills were handy for… read more
thanks toma for… read more
Paulina is a super organized and a hardworking Volunteer. She takes the work serious and was very respectful with us and our home as well. We appreciated her help a lot. In that moment we struggeled to finish a lot of gardening tasks because we didn’t had more volunteers… read more
My first 2 weeks were with just Jimbo, because she was away, I did mainly gardening job, which I really enjoyed, we had a good dynamic in order to organize my daily tasks, he explained me what to do everytime and I did, every weekend he dropped in Asilah in order to do whatever I want with my days off, was… read more
They took resposability to look after our place and dogs during our two week holidays and did an excellent job! they support us in moving stones for building walls in our new garden. (A super heavy work), diged over 40 holes for planting trees in the… read more
both they welcome you with a big heart. Them project is located in a beautiful location close to Asilah.
They are very flexible with the tasks and open to talk about with what you are more interested and able to help.l spend with them 2 beautiful weeks even though the weather it wasn't good,so we didn't work as much.
Sharing meals… read more
We learn a lot of things from they.
Travelers, In the farm you will find a very nice environment, friendly and you will feel like in home.
In the hostel you can meet kuby, another… read more
They had a lot of new things to think about and to organise so it was not always clear what to do but we did lots of cleaning and gardening and the motivation to improve the place was very… read more
Every day there was something new to do: We did a lot of gardening work, painted the walls of a house and the chairs and tables; we built composts or cleaned the area.… read more
We create the new garden area and i could see a big change in the three weeks.
I loved the food, the walk with the donkey to the local soug and all the… read more
Jimbo and Nina are very friendly and interesting, they were always working and interacting with the volunteers, this is very good for work and for us!
I stayed more than 3 weeks and it was very good to share with everyone, I'm very happy to meet everyone who passed by!
At one time we were 7 volunteers at the… read more
First of all, the place they have is just amazing, but their vision for this upcoming community is even more… read more
Simon is a very uncomplicated and respectful person and always with everybody on the same wave. After putting his hammock in between trees he really enjoyed to live outside day and night. Simon helped us a lot with the start of our thatched roof. We went to the river to cut 2m high grass in 1m deep riverbanks. As well he supported us with… read more
Jimbo and Nina are two atypic en sympathic persons and i really liked to work with them.
I wish them the best for their project and am truly grateful for the things I learned in their company !!
From the moment they received us, they were very attentive, and we appreciate their trust.
They are people with whom you always learn something new, because all the time they… read more
Krystal is an energetic and enthusiastic person and always filled our team with good vibes.
She helped a lot that our place starts… read more
Albert is a master of recycling materials and creating new things with it. Allways with an eye for details and ideas to make something out of… read more
