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Spend 2–3 weeks in Yawarani Village, a remote Indigenous community surrounded by the Amazon rainforest. Help 4 days a week with agroforestry, traditional crops, and caring for shared community spaces. Be ready to get your hands dirty and contribute! In your free time, you may experience forest trails, stories, music, and traditional knowledge, always according to the community’s routine and availability. 🌱
20 hours of help per week
Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.
Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.
Amount: R$ 1400 One time
Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers
Description: Contribution to boat transportation costs between Vila São Vicente and Aldeia Yawarani, including arrival and return. The journey takes approximately 3 hours. The boat cost covers the boatman, fuel and operating and maintenance expenses. When volunteers travel on the same dates, the transportation can be shared among the group, reducing the individual cost.
3 days off per week
Team Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other people.
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.
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.
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
Intermediate English or Intermediate Portuguese
Over 18 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Our volunteer program is designed for small groups of around 4–5 people staying for 2–3 weeks in Yawarani Village, a remote Indigenous community in the Amazon rainforest.
This is not a tourist program. Volunteers come to live with us, contribute to real community needs and experience daily life in the village with respect and openness.
We organize each period around the community's current priorities, such as agroforestry, traditional crop areas, maintenance of shared spaces and small community projects.
Life here is remote and different from city life. In return for your contribution, we provide accommodation, meals and access to Starlink internet. During your stay, you may also naturally experience forest trails, stories, music, traditional knowledge and community activities.
Some cultural activities, ceremonies or workshops may also be organized depending on the availability and interest of community members. These are not guaranteed or scheduled as part of the volunteer exchange.
Volunteers help 4 days per week, around 20 hours in total. We usually start in the morning, when temperatures are more comfortable. Some activities may continue in the afternoon when necessary, depending on the project, weather and community routine.
Tasks may include agroforestry planting and management, helping in traditional crop areas (roçados), clearing fast-growing vegetation, cutting grass, maintaining shared spaces, and small building or repair projects.
Tasks change according to the season and the real needs of the village. Please be prepared for physical outdoor work in a hot, humid tropical environment.
Respect for the community, its people, culture and privacy is essential.
Always ask permission before photographing or recording people, ceremonies or community activities. Do not assume that every cultural or spiritual practice is open to visitors.
Being welcomed into Yawarani Village does not automatically give permission to use the community, its people, ceremonies, stories, traditional knowledge or daily life to produce public or commercial content. If you intend to create content specifically about Yawarani or its people for social media, YouTube, documentaries, articles or other public projects, please discuss it with us first. The community must have a voice in how it and its culture are represented.
Media created as part of volunteer activities must be shared with Yawarani Village, and the community may use, reproduce, edit and publish this material for its own cultural, educational, communication, fundraising and promotional purposes.
Volunteers are expected to participate responsibly in the agreed work schedule, take care of shared spaces and communicate openly if they have any difficulty.
Please remember that you will be a guest in an Indigenous community, not at a resort. Be flexible with changes in plans, weather, transportation and daily routines. Life in the Amazon follows the conditions of the forest, river and community.
