Mini renovation, Engenho-Casona reorganization, Green areas
The experience
For detail-oriented people and those open to a positive rural dynamic. Activities with woodworking machines powered by a motor: hand sanding. Repairing objects. Installation of fences or wooden posts, disassembling wooden structures. Reorganize the engenho, with details in the hill’s hall.
We also include care for paths or trails. Bring your purpose of self-knowledge, harmonization, and everything that is good for your moment!
What you offer
5 hours of help per day
Farming:
Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.
Building & Repairing:
Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
Additional fee required
Amount:
R$ 160
Per day
Fee pays for:
Benefits for travelers and Materials for volunteer activities
Description:
Contact us for discounts or agreements for more than one week. Coverage includes electricity, cleaning products, and furniture maintenance for leisure, gasoline for pre-purchases, electricity and gas that exceed consumption.
DAMAGES AND REFUNDS: Materials, furniture, floors, tools, and utilities in the provided areas that suffer damage from careless use must be restored, or repaired outside of operating hours or reimbursed.
What you get
1 day 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.
Lunch:
You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.
Discounts on Accommodation:
Get discounts for your stay in other hostels.
Free Laundry:
You can use our laundry room freely.
Pick Up:
We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.
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
Requirements
Beginner Portuguese or Beginner Spanish
Between 24 and 60 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
What's not included
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Program Details
We are in the final phase of renovations. Your collaboration will involve working on carpentry details, woodworking, painting, installations, cleaning, pruning and transportation, reorganizing the processing plant, and various activities interwoven in green areas.
Every day will be different! Living together is an invitation to be welcomed by a temporary family. The local project will welcome your willing hand and will bring learnings, experiences, and personal growth.
Activities & Shift
5h30 per day, concentrated (4h15 in the morning + 1h15 in the afternoon, schedule to be arranged). We already include in the afternoon a quick group effort for collective care at the end of the day (30 minutes to tend to the common spaces and shared areas, keeping the environment as well maintained as they found it)
NOTE: On the day of leaving, please leave your care with the room clean, blankets airing on the clothesline and the mattress standing on the bed. This final care is done outside the compensation hours.
COMPENSATION/LEISURE / ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES: Options:
a- NO COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY on arrival. Hosting costs: From 1/2 daily rate (with lunch or evening snack). Schedule to be arranged.
b- WITH COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY on the day of arrival. Arrive no later than 11:45 (Reception, orientations, lunch and brief rest). Start tasks: 14:00.
c- FREE DAY (7th), but if this is the departure day. The collaborator's departure will be by 18:30 in activities. Only on that day will we have a shared lunch at the site, uniting products from everyone or for a picnic together outside the site. Everyone leaves the site for most of the day (transport arranged) every 7 or 10 days.
d- DAILY LEISURE: Enjoy most of the afternoon and all evening, for leisure or alternating with mornings.
e- DEPARTURE ANY DAY: scheduled or advance date with a 48h notice:
Compensação in the morning for 2h30, without lunch. Departure by 12:00.
Compensação in the morning for 3h30, with lunch included. Departure by 14:00.
No compensation. Hosting: 1/3 or 1/4 of daily rate to enjoy overnight; departure time to be arranged. Check in advance.
Rules
Alimentação: You will receive a good lunch!! Bring your own products to prepare other snacks. Do not ingest: soft drinks, meats (white/red), alcohol, soft drinks, energy drinks, cigarettes and substances that alter consciousness. Focus on health and good energy.
Tecnologia: Cell phones and computers only outside buildings, far from people and in leisure (never during tasks). The TIM network is the only one that works well. Internet use with criteria.
Photos and Videos: Images of the place or residents require prior notice and authorization under certain criteria.
Organização: Personal belongings must stay in the rooms or designated areas to maintain the harmony of the spaces.
Som: Individual only with headphones. Collective sound requires consensus and guidelines, with a single person responsible for the device.
Cuidado com o local: Furniture, objects and floors must remain intact. Damages must be reimbursed or repaired outside the activity hours.
Anfitriões: There are two coordinators. Respect rest time and stay attentive to the dynamics and guidance.
Vizinhança: Do not pick fruits/vegetables along the way (they are private crops) and do not enter trails on others' properties.
Harmonização em mutirão: Daily rotating activities of up to 30 minutes (already included in the workload).
Convivência: Seek dialogue, exchange and group harmony.
Regras de ouro: good humor, initiative, goodwill and proactivity.
Aviso: Other rules may be aligned according to the season of stay.