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We spent some time doing a beautiful renovation on the hill, revitalizing a building with a history of good coexistence. Come take care of beautifying your living and landscaped area: painting, applying grout to ceramic tiles, caring for the surrounding green area and the path, reorganizing materials in the surroundings, carpentry installations. Alternate with activities at the guesthouse.
5 hours of help per day
Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.
Amount: R$ 160 Per week
Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers and Materials for volunteer activities
Description: THE FEE: May be reduced for + weeks. Coverage of electricity, cleaning products, and furniture maintenance for leisure, gasoline for pre-purchases, electricity and gas that exceed consumption. DAMAGES AND REIMBURSEMENTS: Materials, furniture, floors, tools, utilities of lent areas that suffer damages due to careless use must be restored, or repaired outside of activity hours or reimbursed. The fee allows use of the pantry, kitchen and washing machine (1)
1 day off per week
Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.
Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.
Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.
Discounts on Accommodation: Get discounts for your stay in other hostels.
Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.
Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.
Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely
Intermediate Portuguese or Intermediate Spanish
Between 24 and 50 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
The hill hall, 100 meters from the guest house, needs finishing touches after a renovation to restart artistic activities.
Your energy is needed for: painting, floor cleaning, applying a little grout to wall ceramic tiles. Cleaning outdoor areas and maintenance of green areas with manual tools and motor-powered equipment.
PROACTIVITY OF THE COLLABORATING LEARNER: Working hours
5h30 per day, concentrated (4h15 in the morning + 1h15 in the afternoon, to be scheduled). We already include in the afternoon a quick group-wide care effort at the end of the day (about 30 minutes to tend to shared spaces and common areas, keeping the environment as well cared for as when they found it)
NOTE: On the day of departure, leave the room tidy (duvet blankets airing on the clothesline and the mattress standing up on the bed). This final care is done outside the work-hour compensation.
COMPENSATIONS/LEISURE/ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES: Options:
a- NO COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY on arrival. Welcome contributions: 1/2 daily rate (with lunch or an evening snack). Schedule to be arranged.
b- WITH COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY on the day of arrival. Arrive no later than 11:45 (Reception, orientations, lunch and brief rest). Start tasks: 14:00.
c- FREE DAY (7th day), but if this is the day of departure. The collaborator's departure will be by 18:30 during activities. Only that day will we have a shared lunch on site, combining products from everyone or a picnic together off-site. Everyone leaves the site for most of the day (transport organized) every 7 or 10 days.
d- DAILY LEISURE: Enjoy most of the afternoon and the entire evening, for leisure or alternating with mornings.
e- DEPARTURE ANY DAY: scheduled date or with 48h notice:
- Morning compensation of 2h30, without lunch. Departure by 12:00.
- Morning compensation of 3h30, with lunch included. Departure by 14:00.
- No compensation. Cost: 1/3 or 1/4 of a daily rate to use an overnight stay; departure time to be arranged. Check beforehand.
Food: You will receive a good lunch! Bring your own items to prepare other snacks. Do not ingest: soda, meats (white/red), alcohol, soda, energy drinks, cigarettes and substances that alter consciousness. Focus on health and good energy.
Technology: Cell phones and computers only outside buildings, away from people and in leisure (never during tasks). The TIM network is the only one that works well. Internet use with criteria.
Photos and Videos: Images of the site or residents require prior notice and authorization under certain criteria.
Organization: Personal belongings must stay in the bedrooms or designated areas to maintain harmony of the spaces.
Sound: Individual use only with headphones. Collective sound requires consensus and guidelines, with a single person responsible for the device.
Care of the place: Furniture, objects and floors must stay intact. Damages must be reimbursed or repaired outside of activity hours.
Hosts: There are two coordinators. Respect rest time and stay attentive to dynamics and guidelines.
Neighborhood: Do not harvest fruits/vegetables along the way (they are private crops) and do not enter trails on others' properties.
Harmony in mutirão: Daily rotating activities of up to 30 minutes (already included in the working hours).
Conviviality: Seek dialogue, exchange and group harmony.
Golden rules: good humor, initiative, goodwill and proactivity.
Note: Other rules may be aligned according to the season of stay.
