Contribute to our safe, nurturing and creative space in Sapanca, Turkey

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  🌿 Seasonal Need: Prioritized Volunteers (Spring-Summer 2025) 🌿
  We are currently experiencing seasonal needs in the following areas. If you have experience or are willing to help in these tasks, we will prioritize your application:
  
  Garden maintenance (pruning, cleaning, general upkeep)
  Plant care and soil management (we have many fruit trees and local plants, so knowledge of trees and plants is preferred)
  We are looking for volunteers who respect nature, have environmental awareness. If you have experience with fruit trees or local plants and are interested in a lifestyle that embraces nature, we look forward to hearing from you.
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  Our house is located in Sapanca. This town is around 80 miles from Taksim (of Istanbul) and 60 miles from Sabiha Gokcen International Airport on the Asian side. It has managed to keep its rich and green flora despite development. In fact, the village where the House is located is called Kirkpinar, ‘forty springs’ in Turkish. Lake Sapanca is in walking distance after you pass an array of local cafes and restaurants on the Baghdad Street that was once part of the Silk Road allowing caravans through. If you are into outdoor activities year round, it is the place for you. If you miss the big city vibe and some crazy traffic, want to attend concerts, visit museums, Istanbul is close by (jump on a train or rent a car).
  
  The ideal candidate is 25+ years old, she is drama-free co-helper (+housemate and/or house-sitter at times) who grew up in a rural area or had training and experience in gardening, picking, packing and preserving fruits (any jam-makers?), trimming, using all kinds of gardening tools. Having a driver license is a plus. She will participate in the usual house maintenance such as cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping etc. (the basics of sharing a house:) Punctuality and meeting deadlines are important.
  She loves and respects nature truly, has interest to learn and teach (us) about all beings of the Creation. She has understood and internalized the necessity of a healthy-living, respects one's body and soul in order to have harmonious and creative contributions. Following rules without seeing the rationale behind them can be challenging and may cause tension and imbalance at times. Even better if you're already vegan or vegetarian with a sugar-free diet. Recycling and composting is your second-nature:) We welcome and appreciate your gifts and bringing food or home supplies as long they are need-based. We discourage consumption, especially with harmful packaging (plastic, canned food, and anything with preservatives or processed sugar, artificial flavor or color).
  
  We have redesigned our home space as a multi-functional nurturing and creative space for women whose research, writing and/or art projects had to be put on hold due to challenging and unforeseen circumstances in life. It is a space for wellness, inspirational work, meetings, knowledge exchanges, all of which will lead to intercultural solidarity and empowerment as well. Although our home-work-space is for creative women's experiences, men who are supportive and respectful of women's struggles are also welcome.
  
  It is an eco-friendly house. Our products are carefully chosen and consumed. We are very conscious of the unity and multiple bonds among species. It is also a substance free space both in the house and the garden, that is, alcohol-free, smoke-free, and meat-free. The house is also scent-free but essential oils are exceptions:) We love to laugh, cook, and eat together, and have lots of joy in sharing too. We're in transition as of April 2025 as we have recently run out of funds and thus trying to find ethical ways to make a living by renting our rooms, selling our produce or creating handicraft to sell online.
  
  Join us for a meaningful discourse around the challenges of our times, give your support and share your energy in taking new steps in y/our lives!
  
  Thank you and good luck!
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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Prática de idiomas

  Ajuda em projetos ambientais

  Jardinagem

  Construção/faça você mesmo

  Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras

  Ajuda a cuidar da casa

  Manutenção geral

  Ajuda com computadores/internet
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  Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir

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  O que é isso?
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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  A small garden with (a modest amount of) seasonal vegetables, herbs, flowers, pine and fruit trees (generous amount of fruits, especially kiwis, persimmons, and pomegranates to keep us all happy!), view of the mountains, a healthy and plant-based food in our kitchen, a substance-free living space (also free from artificial scents and chemicals).
  
  A little information about the owner:
  
  My name is Ozlem (49). I am a writer, traveler, translator, activist, and academic with a special interest toward comparative literature and religions, nature, cooking, alternative medicine, community service, gardening and recycling among other things which makes life rich and meaningful. My previous work with women from all walks of life provided me with experiences that no money can buy. I lived abroad for 20+ years and hold dual citizenship.
  
  Your current housemate is Sevil (31) who goes by Sevilya sometimes. A degree in counseling with a focus on equine-assisted therapy. For more about her background and work, you can visit dogaylaiyiles.com (with some help from translation apps:)

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  Ajuda

  Possible Other Projects we can do together:
  Woodwork to create unique furniture, bookshelves for house. Recycling projects.
  Building a tree house, shack, and/or storage space in the garden.
  We are open to creative and sustainable ideas for our garden and house. Please share!

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  Idiomas

  Inglês: Fluente
  Turco: Fluente
  Alemão: Intermediário

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  Acomodação

  The house has three bedrooms, one living room, two full bathrooms (one is accessible) and one multipurpose small room. We just transformed the upstairs balcony into a greenhouse or the 'winter garden' as it is commonly referred to here; it also makes a lovely art-studio and/or 'writer's inspirational corner' due to its gorgeous view. We have various options for you to sleep depending on the time period you are coming. Depending on your choice and the season you are coming, one private bedroom is available.
  
  We love to try new recipes, play, explore and it would be possible to share some kitchen experiences during your stay! We also would love to share some unique products and our knowledge, experiences about them. Our kitchen is vegan-vegetarian but there are many restaurants for the 'other' stuff nearby! Conversations over nature, plant-based diet and recipes, animals, sustainable living, ecofeminism, veggies, composting and sharing practices over recycling and education are particularly welcomed!
  
  We love to share basic food and knowledge about them. Usually, we eat dinners together after a busy day, sometime around 7-7:30 pm. Volunteers prepare their own breakfast and lunch.

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  Algo mais...

  There are rivers on the mountains you can visit by car and explore wild nature. Horse riding, hiking, mountain biking and kayaking are possible to arrange, and bikes are the best and greenest means of transportation around and easy to rent!

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  Mais alguns detalhes

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    Acesso à internet

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    Acesso à internet limitado

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    Temos mascotes

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    Somos fumantes

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    Pode hospedar famílias

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  Pode hospedar nômades digitais

  Not %100 reliable so it is a good idea to have a backup system (making my smart phn a hot spot is my Plan B) We also have rare power-cuts for short time (30 min to 1 hr) so it's also something to keep in mind even if they're rare. Two of our American supporters provided us with a solar charger so we're good to go even during power-cuts now! Thank you, Jerry & Liz!

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  Pode aceitar animais

  ONLY if they are kept in the garden! (definitely no indoors, sorry). We've got many stray cats around (like all over Turkey) and they love our garden so keep it in mind too:)

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  Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

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