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Farming and community gardening in our agricultural project

The Exchange

We are an NGO from San Marino with numerous humanitarian and community projects around the world. We are looking for volunteers for our Lusaka, Zambia project that want to make a difference and help train and teach new skills to our local workers. This project includes a bakery and we are also starting an agricultural project with community gardens helping the local people grow crops and vegetables for themselves and their families or to sell

Title

25 hours of help per week

Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.

Handyman: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

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.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Requirements

Intermediate English

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

This project is a bakery, making and supplying bread to local people from the adjacent compound (low income housing) to start up their own businesses as bread sellers. This business activity enables them to feed their families and get ahead in life. We also run a bakery shop from the same premises selling bread, cakes and bakery items to the public, and would like to expand this to include a restaurant/pizzeria. All of our profits are made into bread and we supply orphanages, schools, prisons and other charities on a daily basis with bread for everyone.
We are also starting an agricultural project, setting up community gardens for local people from the compound that don’t have land to plant. This will also provide the bakery/restaurant with our vegetables and we would like to set up a roadside pop up store selling our produce and the produce of the people involved in the community

Activities & Shift

We would love you to come and join our project and make a difference to so many people. It is truly an enriching experience working for the good of others.
We are looking for volunteers that would like to help for a minimum of 1 month and that have related skills such as

Baking (bread, cakes, pastries)
International Cooking
Pizza making
Front of house (table service)
Gardening
Agriculture
Building (we would like to build a roof to cover outdoor dining courtyard, and also make a playpark for children using natural and recycled materials)
Painting
General Maintenance

Rules


We offer accomodation on the bakery premises which will be shared with the volunteers running the project. There is a double room with bathroom with a shared kitchen area. The volunteers will be expected to work 5 hours a day 5 days a week as required and will receive daily meals.
Any travel expenses or visa requirements will be covered by the volunteer but we can help with the visa process if needed