Help us transform our family home into a botanical sanctuary
The experience
Come experience everyday life in South India while helping us slowly transform our family home into a botanical sanctuary within the world of BELIZIYA. Bring your ideas, creativity and curiosity to gardening, simple restoration and thoughtful spaces. No extraordinary skills needed - just kindness, openness and a desire to leave something good behind.
What you offer
25 hours of help per week
Building & Repairing:
Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
Arts:
Help with painting, graffiti, sculpting or drawing.
Painting & Decorating:
Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.
Gardening:
Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
What you get
2 days off per week
Private Room:
You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.
Breakfast:
You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.
Lunch:
You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.
Dinner:
You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.
Discounts on Restaurants:
Get discounts at nearby restaurants.
Discounts on Tours:
Get discounts for tours and excursions around town.
Free Laundry:
You can use our laundry room freely.
Free Tours:
We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!
Free Hiking Tours:
We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!
Free Events:
Get free entrance for the best events in town.
Pick Up:
We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.
Yoga classes:
Take free yoga classes at our place.
Dance classes:
Take free dance classes at our place.
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.
Fast Internet Access:
High-speed internet for you to work remotely
Dedicated Workspace:
Specific space for you to work remotely
Requirements
Intermediate English or Fluent English
Over 18 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Be from outside India
What's not included
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Program Details
BELIZIYA is a young, mission-driven world slowly taking form around human × nature × place × community.
In South India, our family home is becoming one of the first places where this idea begins to take physical form—a simple, botanical sanctuary shaped by nature, everyday life, local culture and the people who pass through it.
We call this role Sanctuary Co-Creator.
We welcome travelers from around the world to live with us for a while and become part of these early chapters.
Depending on what you enjoy, you may help with gardening and planting, simple restoration, decorating, creative projects, caring for outdoor spaces, working with natural materials, or simply bringing a fresh idea we haven't considered yet.
You don't need to be an expert.
Bring what you know. Come curious about what you don't.
This is still our family home—not a finished retreat or resort. The project is evolving slowly, and we want to keep that process human, thoughtful and collaborative.
Beyond helping with the place, we hope you'll experience something of everyday life here too—local food, nature, family life, conversations and the rhythms of South India.
Come with kindness.
Share your perspective.
Learn something new.
Leave something good behind.
Perhaps a little of you remains here after you leave.
Discover the wider world we are building → beliziya.com
Activities & Shift
Depending on your interests and what the place needs, you may help with planting and gardening, caring for outdoor spaces, painting, decorating, simple DIY, creative projects and giving new life to overlooked corners of our family home.
We also welcome your ideas. If you see a possibility we haven't considered, we'd love to hear it.
No special expertise is required—bring what you enjoy doing.
Rules
Hospitality is deeply rooted in our family and culture.
To welcome someone into our home is meaningful to us. Those who arrive are not simply volunteers passing through, but people invited to share a little of everyday life with us.
We ask only that you enter with the same kindness, openness and respect with which you are welcomed.
Our home is a substance-free space, and we ask everyone staying with us to respect this throughout their time here.
We care deeply about keeping our surroundings clean, peaceful and healthy. We use simple, environmentally considerate household products wherever possible and ask everyone to help care for shared spaces as they would their own home.
Please be mindful of the people, traditions, nature and community around you. Come curious. Ask questions. Share what you know, and remain open to what you may learn.
There is no expectation that we all live, think or believe in the same way.
Respect for our differences is part of the experience.
Above all, this is a family home before it is a project.
Come with kindness.
Live simply.
Leave the place a little better than you found it.
You are welcome here.