Live in a coliving space and help with household chores and the garden at Vila Meiga | Pontevedra
The experience
Welcome! In our coliving space, we’re looking for people who want to actively participate in a community experience. You’ll be able to contribute to different tasks depending on the season, such as home maintenance, cleaning, gardening, or tending the garden. It’s an opportunity to live together, share, and foster a more collaborative lifestyle.
What you offer
15 hours of help per week
Music:
Perform to entertain guests, children or local communities.
Gardening:
Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
Cleaning:
Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.
Cooking:
Choose the menu, pick ingredients and cook delicious dishes.
What you get
2 days off per week
Shared Dorm:
You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.
Tent:
You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.
Discounts on Parties:
Get discounts at nearby parties and clubs.
Discounts on Accommodation:
Get discounts for your stay in other hostels.
Free Laundry:
You can use our laundry room freely.
Free Hiking Tours:
We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!
Bikes at your disposal:
You can use our bikes any time you want.
Language lessons:
Take free language classes at our place.
Holistic Therapies:
You can take part in any of our therapeutic activities for free.
Use our equipped kitchen:
Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.
Basic Internet Access:
Basic speed internet for you to work remotely
Requirements
Beginner Spanish or Beginner English
Between 18 and 60 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
What's not included
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Program Details
With the aim of fostering a true community life, we combine group volunteer work with moments of autonomous work.
Once you become part of the project, you will join our small family. We are a new project, in constant evolution and development, with a lot of work ahead and a great desire to grow in community.
Activities & Shift
Work will take place five days a week, usually for 3 hours.
We will combine group work with individual tasks.
Depending on the season we will have different volunteering possibilities:
MAINTENANCE AND HOME
- Attention to conscious tourism, preparation of spaces and cleaning
GARDENING AND VEGETABLE GARDEN
- Maintenance of green areas and care of the garden
DIY
- Recycling of furniture
PERSONAL SKILL
- If you want to share your wisdom or skills with the community through classes in crafts, physical activity, etc., this can also be your volunteer work
Rules
As with any community life, and to be able to sustain the space in peace and harmony, we have some very simple BASIC COEXISTENCE AGREEMENTS that tell us our philosophy and roadmap
🗣️ COMMUNICATION:
What I think is wrong I communicate it, from love and with the sole intention of improving coexistence
- WhatsApp Group: communication/reaction to the messages that are sent, whether you are involved with the project or not, I COMMUNICATE AND RESPOND
🧹 CLEANLINESS:
Simple: fulfill the weekly assignments, and daily give it a quick review and keep everything as you found it MINIMUM.
🤫 SILENCE SPACES:
Between [23:00 and 10:00 (night hours)] and at times the Project requires (Energetic Singing, Sound Baths, meditations, etc) MAXIMUM SILENCE IN THE INTERIOR SPACE (if you want to organize something loud at night, COMMUNICATE and if someone ends up being bothered INTERRUPT IMMEDIATELY. * pending approval.
🕙 PUNCTUALITY AND COMMITMENT:
Each person is responsible for their actions; if I commit or sign up for something, I am punctual (be ready 5 minutes early) and I do not fail or cancel at the last minute [respect for others' time]