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Help our family and enjoy our artisan bakery in a beach village!

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The experience

Welcome! We are a family looking for a friendly hand on daily tasks as cooking lunch, washing dishes, cleaning in general, painting, and gardening. We work in our own home artisan bakery and sell our products downtown. We have recently inaugurated our store witch we only open once a week. We make rustic organic bread of natural fermentation, functional cakes, artisan pizzas, cookies... You will sleep in a VW Kombi and have a clean toilet to use.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

What you get

1 day 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.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

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

Requirements

Beginner Spanish or Beginner Portuguese

Between 24 and 80 years old

Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

This IS a volunteering project we ALL make part of and we will treat you as family here in our HOME-BAKERY. We are in this world to help each other and we love this kind of exchange.

We are located in Praia de Itapeva, Torres - Rio Grande do Sul. A wonderful place for lovers of the sea, nature and extreme sports. We are very close to a beach known for its natural beauty (Praia da Guarita), and many other beaches. In addition you can enjoy or better know a type of healthy and functional bakery. Inclusive on your free time you can learn how to make our breads and cakes and take it to your life!

Activities & Shift

The work is 5 hours a day/5 days a week.
Usually our schedule is very flexible, specially on summer.

Basically it is helpings us on daily tasks such as cleaning the bakery, cooking lunch and cleaning the kitchen after meals ;o), helping on our bakery, receptioning and serving clients, gardening and cleaning in general, playing with the kids or helping them with school homework, building or painting something in the yard, etc...

We need someone responsable, respectful and PROACTIVE to help keeping the house clean and tidy. You have to like children and animals. If you choose to volunteer with us, you should keep in mind that the little ones require a lot of love, playfulness and patience.

Rules

We use our VW Kombi Van to work on Saturdays and Sundays' mornings, so if you do not wish to be awake very early bring your own tent.

The place where the volunteer sleeps and the toilet used by him or her must stay CLEAN and organized during the days of the volunteering and shall be cleaned on the same day of departure, right BEFORE LEAVING.

The volunteer needs to be PROACTIVE and show real interest on helping and sharing life... We don't like people standing in the middle of the way "just wondering" during their volunteering time. We will try always to be honest and objective in communicating and assigning tasks but we'll be always open to new ideas and REAL actions.


DRUGS AND ALCOHOL ABUSE ARE FORBIDEN.