Help us in our small sustainable farm by the beach in Zambales, Philippines

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  Description

  Hi!
  
  We are Bibe and Sam, a Filipina/French couple. We live in a small island surrounded by the river, at 10 minutes walk from the beach, just a few hours by bus from Manila.
  
  Bibe is a local and used to live here with her family since decades, she is taking care of the family business in Riverside and she is very good at cooking and doing art with craft.
  
  Me, Sam from France used to travel for 4 years and using workaway as a volunteer. In 2018, I decided to quit my job as engineer to travel the world and learn different skills, cultures and go back the basics: the nature. I wanted to learn how to build, how to grow food just with my two hands and using natural materials and ancestral technics.
  
  My travels bring me to the Philippines, and i felt in love with that place, this little paradise. Where I met Bibe my Filipina girlfriend.
  Then the Covid came, everything stoped for a while. We decided to use that opportunity to build our small bamboo house in a middle of the jungle. We started to clean the jungle, and slowly build our dream house.
  
  Now, our dream is to be sustainable, eating healthy food, and enjoy our simple lifestyle and common passion for surfing.
  
  It’s time for us to open our place for volunteer to welcome you as some host used to welcome me when i was traveling. We wants to share our dream, our small paradise to others and offer the opportunity to experience alternative lifestyle.
  
  For now, we are just focus on improving our place, still some constructions to do, to develop our food garden, to improve our life here. But we got many dreams for the futur, we would like to help our community, organizing differents activities for the children, show them organic farming, music or art.
  
  Each one makes a difference, everyone can be inspiring and meaningful..

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Projets artistiques

  Pratique d’une langue

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Enseignement

  Jardinage d'entretien

  Projets DIY créatifs

  S’occuper des animaux

  Aide dans une ferme

  Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison

  Petits travaux d'entretien
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Vidéographie

  

  Dev. personnel

  

  Dev. durable

  

  Animaux de compagnie

  

  Ferme

  

  Événements/vie sociale

  

  Culture

  

  Soin des plantes

  

  Photographie

  

  Langues

  

  Musique

  

  Jardinage

  

  Dessin et peinture

  

  Menuiserie

  

  Cuisine et alimentation

  

  Bricolage / artisanat

  

  Animaux

  

  Architecture

  

  Art et design

  

  Yoga / bien-être

  

  Sports nautiques

  

  Activités en plein air

  

  Randonnée

  

  Sports d'aventure

  

  Nature

  

  Camping

  

  Plage
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  The family of Bibe is one of the few local family still living in this touristic spot of the Philippines. So you will have the opportunity to truly live with the culture of a local family in the province. You will discover their culture and learn how they live.
  
  You will also learn about organic farming, permaculture, Eco construction and art.
  We can teach you also how to surf and Skimboarding!
  
  We are also musician, so if you know how to play, let's jam !
  
  IMPORTANT:
  We are part of Riverside community, wich is a family/friends community with a simple life style. We are a COMMUNITY wich means : we love to share and to help each others. Selfish and negative people are not welcome, if you are not ready to experience a community life please don't apply. We are looking for travellers who are very interrested about the CULTURAL exchange and not a cheap way to travel and surf for free... :)

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  Projets impliquant des enfants

  Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.

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  Aide

  We are accepting only solo travelers ! :)
  
  As we are trying to be sustainable, we mostly need help with our little garden and to improve our place with maintenance and building new constructions. As long as the imagination goes, with a place like this, everything is possible, just creativity and love. We will try to find together task to do to make your time here as interesting as possible.
  
  Be aware that living in a small island like that is a everyday full time job, and it can be very tiring for people who are no used to do hard work (Cleaning, caring heavy equipments drinking water, our food supplies, etc). and to live in a tropical forest (insects, humidity, mud, etc.). We need help from people who are fit, used to live with few confort, and love nature.
  
  We will ask 4h to 5h help every day, 5 day a week then you can have 2 day off. You can manage your own time and your days off as long as you respect the hours expected.
  
  We will need help also with the daily task like to clean our place, feed our lovely dogs and cats, cooking and watering the plants.
  
  Here is some of the improvments in progress where you could help us :
  - help in our garden and nursery (seedling, planting, pruning, etc..)
  - Some paint job in our house
  - build a new traditional bamboo bridge
  - build some small hut, outdoor table & chair
  - build some pathway made of stone and clay
  - art decoration
  - etc.
  
  If you are interrested to organize some activities with the kids of the community like art activities, music, or english lesson we can make it happen :)
  
  We will try to usually work all together and exchange our knowledge and fun !
  Cultural exchanges are highly valued here in the village, so foreigners are always greeted with a warm welcome as long as they respect and share with the community :)

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Anglais: Courant
  Français: Courant
  Tagalog: Courant
  Espagnol: Débutant

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  We can teach you how to speak french, english and Tagalog. We are interesting to learn any new language ! :D
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  Hébergement

  We have a good tent for you (good for 3) in our campsite, with electricity, foam and blankets. Near the tent, you will be able to use our outdoor shower and common toilets.
  
  Please, be aware that we are not a Five stars Hotel, you will experience a simple lifestyle in the middle of the nature, don’t expect too much about your comfort and bring mosquito repellent.
  
  We will share lunch and dinner together, we usually have a small breakfast (just coffee and fruits or bread). We are not truly vegetarian but we try to reduce the meat. So, vegetarian are welcome and we can all try different vegetarian recipe. It will be nice if you can also help us to cook sometime !
  The food will be provided during your working day. The food is getting very expensive in the Philippines, so we will ask you to provide your own food for your days off or to help us with the groceries.

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  Autres infos...

  We are 10 minutes walk by the beach, this is a perfect spot to surf, and skim, we can teach you and you can also rent a board.
  We are living in a small island surrounded by the river so you can enjoy swimming in the river or using our paddle board or boat.
  
  There are many tourist spots around here, island trip, waterfall, mountain trek, we can show you the place and tell you where to go (depends on the season) ;)
  
  In our small village there are many place to eat, or to have a drink. You can go out by night, but we are not so into late parties. Be aware that our place is full of dogs, around 40, there are all kind and friendly, but if you go back late by night you will wake up all the neighborhood ahah.
  
  During the weekend we usually do family lunch or dinner, with share somes drinks in the bonfire, we chill and play some music !

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  Informations complémentaires

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    Accès Internet

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    Accès Internet limité

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    Nous avons des animaux

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    Nous sommes fumeurs

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    Familles bienvenues

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  Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

  We have a high speed wifi (up to 90mbs on weekdays), usually on weekend the signal get bad because of the many guests in the village. Fees for internet connection can be asked.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Deux

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  Mes animaux

  Talong, Mister Chow, river and many more !

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