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Do you want to experience a Finnish traditional house and city of Helsinki at the same time? At our homestay it is possible! We need help with regular house activities, like window washing, paint removal, painting, gardening, vacuuming, cooking etc. We'll provide you with instructions and help.
15 hours of help per week
Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.
Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.
Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
2 days off per week
Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.
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.
Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely
Intermediate English or Intermediate Swedish
Between 21 and 80 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Travel insurance
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
We are a Finnish family consisting 2 adults and 2 dogs, living in a traditional Finnish house in Eastern Helsinki. We speak Finnish, Swedish, English and spanish, so you can practice any of them with us.
As our volunteer, your work will happen around the house, both inside and outside and tasks depends on season and what area currently is being worked on. We do also have own green garden where we grow some vegetables etc for our table. You'll learn various skills useful when you live in a single family house, renovation etc.
Our house is located right next to public transport. You can reach city center of Helsinki in 30-40 minutes.
Your daily programs varies depending what activities we have. We expect you to manage your weekly 15h in coordination with us. You may do it 3h/day or some days longer if you wish to have more days off. We're quite flexible. Certain tasks however reauire more timing weatherwise or otherwise, so we'll discuss through tasks with you. Normally we keep up a daily/weekly task list on fridge door where you can pick up your chores.
3h daily or 15h weekly, 2 days of week free. If your stay is shorter than a week, you are eligible 1 free day.
Example tasks: Gardening, paint removal or painting, vacuuming, window cleaning, cooking, weed removal, raking, soil handling, cutting branches, digging out roots
- Silent hours 22-07
- No shoes indoors
- No smoking indoors, only in the designated area away from windows
- We are pet friendly place - you'll be living with two spaniels, not suitable for dog allergic. We also expect some prior experience being around dogs as they are full family members. We cannot host anyone afraid of dogs/uncomfortable around dogs.
- Communication is a key, we expect you to ask questions when something unclear.
- Vegetarian, vegan or milk free diet can be followed at our place (please inform), we cannot accommodate gluten free or severe food allergies. Meat products are stored in the same fridge.
- No extra guests
- Room in picture is an example volunteer room, and it may be another one
- As we are a Finnish family, we expect our volunteers to socialize with us, e.g. normal talking with us during the day. A little bit of socializing can go a long way in building connection and making the experience more enriching for everyone
- Volunteers do have quite much freedom in their volunteering hours. However we expect responsibility and commitment from your end
- Clean after yourself
- We are not your parents. Certain adulthood is expected.
