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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).
Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Projets artistiques
Aide avec des éco-projets
Enseignement
Jardinage
Bricolage et construction
S’occuper des animaux
Aide dans une ferme
Aide à la maison
Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre
Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre
NGO skills, education / teaching skills (we have trained Montessori teachers) gardening skills, animal care, growing organically, horse riding and donkey care, cob house building
Projets impliquant des enfants
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Aide
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.
Langues
Langues parlées
Anglais: Courant
Portugais: Intermédiaire
Espagnol: Débutant
Français: DébutantCet hôte propose un échange linguistique
Cet hôte a indiqué qu’il souhaitait faire partager sa propre langue ou en apprendre une nouvelle.
Contactez-le pour en savoir plus.
Hébergement
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.
Autres infos...
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.
Informations complémentaires
Accès Internet
Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
Familles bienvenues
Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads
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Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?
Deux
Nombre d'heures attendues
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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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
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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
