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Community Experience at Piracanga Ecovillage

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The experience

This is a COLLABORATIVE STAY program ideal for people who are seeking to learn in practice new ways of living and connecting with the regeneration of nature. It is important to be open to new things and to have the availability to participate in group or individual activities and to contribute with your knowledge and skills to the collective and community-building that this experience provides.

Our Instagram: @escoladanaturezapiracanga


What you offer

4 hours of help per day

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

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

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

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Additional fee required

Amount: R$ 660 Per week

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers, Materials for volunteer activities, and Donation to project

Description: Este não é exatamente um programa de voluntariado, é um programa de experiência comunitária de pelo menos 5 dias. Para conseguir oferecer este programa com qualidade, pedimos a taxa uma vez que somos uma associação sem fins lucrativos e você pode verificar em nosso site nosso relatório de impacto e todas as ações socioambientais que desenvolvemos aqui. Acesse: www.escoladanatureza.org e seja bem vind@!


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.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Discounts on Restaurants: Get discounts at nearby restaurants.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

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.

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely


Requirements

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers


What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa


Program Details

Participants will live on our Campus, a hub of collective houses, with single or double rooms, an equipped kitchen, common spaces, a shower with hot water, a biodiversity garden, proper waste separation and disposal, solar energy, ecological sanitation systems and a design integrated with nature. Here, your stay becomes a large laboratory for experimenting with community life integrated with the technologies and environmental practices we apply at the school. You will be involved in daily tasks, reiterating the responsibility of each individual in creating their social reality.

Meal responsibility lies with each participant. Lunches are organized from Monday to Friday collaboratively and at low cost, with each day a group responsible for preparing the meal, in moments of conviviality in which other members of the community also join. Arrival on Saturdays.


Activities & Shift

Daily activities:
Besides participating in the collective lunch, maintenance of the campus common areas is also included, involving gardening, cleaning and harmonizing the spaces, composting and dry toilets.

Recurring activities during the week:
Seedling planting, management of organic waste through the different composting systems we have on campus, management of recyclable waste through playful activities and involvement with social projects that we develop with the local community.

Occasional activities:
Bioconstruction and maintenance of ecological sanitation structures.

Our work rhythm is Monday to Friday, resting on Fridays and Saturdays.


Rules

You will be very welcome here in our home, but it is important to know that we have some agreements that need to be followed. This way, you can have the best experience with us, respecting nature and our lifestyle. See below each of them:

- The use of 100% biodegradable cleaning and hygiene products is allowed only, avoiding contamination of our waters that come from the groundwater that feeds us.
- Carrying electronic devices is allowed only between 9:00 and 15:00 and the use of devices with resistance such as straighteners and hairdryers is not allowed.
- We do not sell or consume meat-containing foods and alcoholic beverages
- It is not allowed to smoke cigarettes or to use any kind of drugs.
- We separate our waste properly.
- Pets are not allowed (PETs).