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ESC: Empowered life: Self-Sustainability in Solidarity

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Sweden European Voluntary Service Social work Environment Education European Voluntary Service Social work +2 Fixed dates

About the project

ESC: Empowered life: Self-Sustainability in Solidarity

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

LAST MINUTE OPPORTUNITY: The project aims at developing skills required for self-sufficiency, focusing on growing your own organic food according to permaculture principles, as well as ethical animal husbandry. Skills also incorporates using different tools, working with different materials, maintenance, painting, plasterwork. Cooking, baking, preserving, pickling. It also aims at supporting participants developing self-growth and a harmonic spiritual consciousness

🏠 Accommodation on site

You would be sharing living space with other volunteers. There are shared bathrooms, hot water and WiFi. Vegan/vegetarian breakfast and lunch are taken together, while an evening meal is taken some time in the evening. Around five minutes minutes walk from the farm there are several buses on weekdays to the nearest town, from which you easily can reach cities around, like Malmö, Lund, Copenhagen and Ystad.

🎒 Leisure activities

Example of available opportunities, workshops and seminars: • Developing different handicraft skills • Working with different materials, wood, metal, textiles, pottery etc. • Vegan/vegetarian cooking (mostly Indian, Italian) • Planning and organisation • Caring for cows and horses • Starting your own business (business plan, bookkeeping, marketing, etc) • Growing your own food • Permaculture • Waste management • Energy production and management • Meditation and kirtan • Excursions to interesting places

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profil: We are looking for a curious and openminded person with team player qualities volunteering with other young adults. You are punctual and responsible, like to rise in the morning to care for the animals, grow your own food and serve the community. You are also a clean and tidy person, who show solidarity with the planet and its inhabitants. Since how we view ourselves and the world affect how we behave in the world, you see the need for a change in consciousness and values. You have no problems with abstaining from meat, fish, eggs, alcohol, smoking or intoxication at the premises.
Deadline: Application deadline: 31/05/2022

ℹ️ Additional information

Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/ This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.

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📅 Available sessions

SE28174

15/06/2022 → 31/10/2022

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 2
♂ 0/1 ♀ 0/1
Deadline: 31/05/2022

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–30 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Möllenäsvägen 83-40, 275 72 Lövestad, Sweden

Sweden

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Sweden Krona (SEK / kr)

Exchange rate

1 SEK = 0.091120 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Central European Standard Time

Local time: 21:41 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Swedish