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Your skill at the heart of the Aiguamolls EMPORDA Natural Park

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The experience

We have a spacious area and a beautiful orchard that we'd love you to help us maintain; every day we take care of the outdoors: we weed, water, harvest, and handle various household chores; in summer we host guests, so supporting housekeeping duties would be wonderful for us.

If you enjoy cooking, we will make preserves and meals for the team.
Harvest, arrange things, and help out.


What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

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.


What you get

2 days off per week

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

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

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.

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

Yoga classes: Take free yoga classes at our place.

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

Intermediate Spanish or Intermediate English

Between 20 and 80 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers


What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa


Program Details

We would like your skills and life experience to contribute to our project and to our own life experience.

Household maintenance is done both indoors and outdoors; we have a garden with different vegetables and produce that require care, and a wide green space that we preserve and maintain.

Indoors, everything is generally organized and clean; there will be dust to remove, cobwebs, seeds brought by the wind, keep the common areas, windows, furniture and make rooms when appropriate.

We will harvest and preserve produce in season of the harvest.
Pruning branches, collecting and cutting firewood, gathering leaves, removing weeds are some of the outdoor tasks.
Basic plumbing, electrical, and masonry repairs are never lacking.
Creation of informative signs.
Giving a second life to linens, sewing repairs and dyeing.
Making natural oil and soaps.


Activities & Shift

The 25 hours of exchange will be organized to suit both the traveler's preferences and the needs of the house.

Among the activities to be carried out we have:
Summer House

KITCHEN
- Review kitchen
- Reorganize crockery
- Take out trash bags

BEDROOMS
- Remove and put on bed linens
- Dust with a feather duster
- Empty trash bins

COMMON AREAS
- Dust common areas with a feather duster
- Organize and clean terrace chairs

LAUNDRY
- Run washing machines with towels and bed linens
- Fold and store bed linens and towels

OUTDOOR ACTIVITY
- Remove weeds
- Collect leaves
- Harvest
- Water
- Cut and stack wood
- Inspect wasp nests

MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES
- Create space for a chicken coop
- Carpentry repairs
- Check/trim wooden edges
- Apply anti-woodworm treatment
- Plumbing repairs
- Bathroom maintenance
- Masonry and electrical repairs
- Patch and plaster


Rules

Silence is essential in common spaces and near bedrooms during rest hours.
Food for breakfast and lunch is provided, but it is essential that everyone prepares their own meals.
Waste separation is mandatory.
To use tools you must request them and leave them in the designated place at the end.
It is forbidden to receive people outside the volunteer program at home.