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🌱 The Paradise Natural Refuge is an invitation to live and experience that another world is possible. A space where we learn to live together in community, reconnect with nature, and build new ways of inhabiting the Earth. Through cooperation, permaculture, communal child-rearing, and ancestral wisdom, we make real what often seems like a utopia. We invite you to be part of this regenerative experience! 💚
18 hours of help per week
Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.
Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.
Amount: US$ 20 Per day
Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers
Description: The volunteers' contribution fee is intended to cover the costs of meals, prioritizing high-quality foods and raw ingredients. At El Paraíso we prepare our own foods in an artisanal way, aiming for nutritious, mindful, and healthy eating, while avoiding as much as possible the consumption of ultra-processed foods. 🌱🥕
3 days off per week
Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.
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 Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.
Yoga classes: Take free yoga classes at our place.
Holistic Therapies: You can take part in any of our therapeutic activities for free.
Permaculture Course: Take part in our Permaculture course 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
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Educational volunteering at El Paraíso Natural Refuge 🌱
El Paraíso is an invitation to experience, in daily practice, that another world is possible.
We learn from nature by living, sharing and building community from the principles of permaculture. We cultivate the land, the bonds and the deep sense of belonging to a community that recognizes the value of cooperation and mutual care.
We are a Regenerative Living School, a space for learning and exchange that gathers and shares the knowledge of the Global Network of Eco-villages and the regenerative communities movement. Here we explore permaculture, sociocracy, nonviolent communication, agroecology, bioconstruction and the ancestral wisdoms of the peoples of our land.
The volunteer work is an opportunity to immerse yourself in this experience, learning by doing, sharing knowledge, and participating in the construction of a community project. Each person contributes from their possibilities, skills and interests, collaborating in the various activities that sustain the life of the refuge: garden, animals, cooking, maintenance, natural constructions, educational spaces, communication and community parenting, among others.
We experience it as an experience of reciprocity, learning and collective construction, inspired by ayni and the minga: giving, receiving and sharing so that all people and the project can grow.
How does participation work?
Accommodation is in a tent, in direct contact with nature.
All people participate in the daily tasks and responsibilities of the community.
A daily fee is paid to cover the costs of food, prioritizing high-quality raw materials and self-made foods, avoiding ultra-processed foods as much as possible.
We share spaces of coexistence, learning, reflection and celebration.
Participation requires commitment, autonomy, initiative, communication and willingness to learn and live together.
This experience is especially open to people who dream of living in nature and in community, who wish to travel while getting to know regenerative projects or who seek new ways of relating to the Earth and to other people.
It is also an opportunity for those who feel called to community parenting and want to share daily life with children from a perspective of collective care.
We are part of a Latin American and global network of eco-villages, so each encounter is also an opportunity to broaden horizons, exchange cultures and weave ties that transcend our territory.
We believe that world transformation begins when we dare to live differently. El Paraíso is a small empirical demonstration that the future we dream of can begin to be built today.
We invite you to be part of this community seed. 🌎💚"
🌱 Basic rules of coexistence at El Paraíso
1. Respect and care: we treat all people, children, animals, and nature with respect.
2. Active participation: all people collaborate in daily tasks and the care of shared spaces.
3. Conscious communication: we promote dialogue, active listening, and nonviolent communication to resolve differences.
4. Order and cleanliness: each person is responsible for keeping the spaces they use clean and orderly.
5. Care of resources: we use water, energy, food, and materials consciously.
6. Community coexistence: we respect collective agreements, rest times, and personal spaces.
7. Care of children: we share an environment of community upbringing based on respect, presence and collective responsibility.
8. Commitment and autonomy: we expect initiative, responsibility and willingness to learn and collaborate.
9. Conscious consumption: we take care of the shared environment, avoiding substances or behaviors that may affect coexistence.
