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Today finding a Philips screwdriver on the island can take 15 minutes; we want it to take 15 seconds!
Weeks 1 and 2: transform an already cleared space into a new workshop, with a workbench, shelves, a tool panel, inventory, and labels.
Weeks 3 and 4: day-to-day repairs on doors, windows, hardware, locks, grout, and light carpentry.
Electrical and plumbing are not included.
We're looking for: experience with carpentry and repairs, and a love for organization.
25 hours of help per week
Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
Amount: R$ 100 Per day
Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers and Materials for volunteer activities
Description: Volunteers contribute R$ 100 per day per person. This amount goes toward benefiting the volunteer (food) and the island (materials and equipment).
2 days 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.
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.
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
Over 21 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Travel insurance
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Ilha dos Desejos is a small private island in the Ilha Grande Bay, in Angra dos Reis. Our challenge is to make the island sustainable, enabling it as a lodging project where people enjoy extraordinary nature and live a transformative experience.
Living on an island is learning from its limits. Our energy comes from the sun, our water comes from the rain, and everything arrives by boat. Every decision, from taking a shower to using an electric appliance, carries weight, and this changes the way we view consumption and time.
Here you wake up surrounded by sea and forest, see the sun rise and set every day, and share breakfast with the birds. We are a small lodging, with only three houses, and that’s why your work really matters and is part of the project. You will see up close how a hospitality business on an island works, from boat logistics to sustainability management.
What we offer: accommodation on the island (guest room when there are no guests, or shared room during stays), breakfast, lunch and dinner with the team, 2 days off per week. 25 hours per week.
In your free time you can swim, kayak, stand-up paddle, snorkel and behold this beauty. On days off, you can explore Ilha Grande, Angra dos Reis and Paraty.
Activities for workshop preparation: cleaning the workshop space, drawing the floor plan with us so that everything has a place and stays organized, cleaning and organizing tools and materials, defining the material needed for the workshop preparation, installation of a workbench, shelves and a tool board using mainly reused material.
Activities of small repairs: installation of wooden steps, installation of door handles, replacement of deck planks, installation of a guard rail, and others.
Shifts: day shift
Safety first
• Do not walk on the decks looking at your phone.
• Do not dive from the pier or the decks into the pool: it is shallow.
• Wear footwear and pay attention to ground level changes.
• Use the PPE provided for any work with tools, paints or chemicals.
Water and energy
• Water comes from rain and is scarce: short showers, taps tightly closed, and the bucket under the shower until the water heats up.
• Energy is solar: no hair dryer, straightener, iron, electric coffee maker or other high-consumption appliances.
Isle and sea
• Toilet paper and any object never go into the toilet: the system is a septic tank.
• Do not throw anything into the sea that fish won’t eat.
• The island’s objects came from various parts of the world and are part of your history. Nothing can be taken away from here.
Guest convivencia
• During stays, discretion and respect for guests’ privacy.
• Do not photograph or publish images of guests.
• Your room may change during the stay, depending on occupancy.
Teamwork
• Here we live as a small community. Like everyone on the team, you will help occasionally to wash dishes, carry shopping bags that arrive by boat and help clean the island. These tasks are part of living together and do not count toward the 25 hours per week.
• Tools go back to their place at the end of each day.
Bring: repellent and, if you are allergic, an anti-allergic ointment.
