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This vacancy is for those who enjoy illustration, art, and getting hands dirty. It includes painting doors, windows, chairs and tables; painting floors and walls; painting sculptures. Also to organize paints, brushes, solvents.
We are looking for: good taste, sensitivity, creativity, and experience with surface preparation, varnish and painting. Materials and PPE provided.
25 hours of help per week
Arts: Help with painting, graffiti, sculpting or drawing.
Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.
Amount: R$ 100 Per day
Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers and Materials for volunteer activities
Description: Volunteers contribute R$ 100 per person per day, which goes toward their meals (food) and toward the island (materials and maintenance).
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 25 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Travel insurance
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
The Island of Desires is a small private island in 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 with its limits. Our energy comes from the sun, our water comes from rain, and everything arrives by boat. Every decision, from the shower to the use of an electrical appliance, carries weight, and this changes the way we see consumption and time.
Here you wake up surrounded by sea and forest, you see the sun rise and set every day, and you share breakfast with the birds. We are a small lodging, with only three houses, and that is why your work truly matters and is part of the project. You will see up close how an island hospitality business operates, from boat logistics to sustainability management.
What we offer: accommodation on the island (guest room when there are no guests, or a 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 see all this beauty. On days off, you can visit Ilha Grande, Angra dos Reis and Paraty.
Activities: sanding by hand and with a machine, painting, varnishing, stapling, moving furniture, decorating
Shifts: Day shift
Safety first
• Do not walk on the decks while looking at your phone.
• Do not dive from the pier or from the decks into the pool: it is shallow.
• Wear footwear and watch out for ground level differences.
• 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.
• The energy is solar: no hair dryer, straightener, iron, electric kettle or other high-consumption devices.
Island and sea
• Toilet paper and any object never go in the toilet: the septic system.
• Do not throw into the sea anything that fish won’t eat.
• The island’s objects came from various parts of the world and are part of its history. Nothing can be taken from here.
Guest interaction
• 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 washing dishes from time to time, carrying grocery bags that arrive by boat and helping to clean the island. These tasks are part of living together and do not count toward the 25 weekly hours.
• Tools go back to their place at the end of each day.
Bring: repellent and, if you’re allergic, an anti-allergic ointment.
