ESC: I know how, empower the group, and heal the Earth, (duration 4 months - 17 weeks) between March and July 2027

Name: ESC: I know how, empower the group, and heal the Earth, (duration 4 months - 17 weeks) between March and July 2027
Start: 2027-03-01
End: 2027-07-01
Location: Zhelen, Bulgaria

Code: 542676aa4710750197 Copied

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

About the project

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

Welcome to Vegetarium community! To live and grow together in this wild area of the Balkan Mountains: enhancing biodiversity, social unity, and personal growth! Master permaculture, discover other eco-projects in Bulgaria, and share authentic lifestyle! During your stay we will be focused on: -Self-improvement, family, and community life: healthy daily routine, morning trainings, sharing circle, healthy nutrition, teamwork. - Autonomy, climate resilience and crisis preparedness. -Helping family and eco projects. - Developing green skills: handling different tools, grow food sustainably, renovate and build a home, organise an eco-friendly householding, balance between nature, local community, markets, and institutions. - Regenerative ecology and agriculture: ability of local creation of living environments that are sustainably productive under changing conditions. - Facing climate change. Welcome to Vegetarium Community Home! Please, read: http://vegetarium.info/our-rules/

🏠 Accommodation on site

We share a hamlet of authentic clay houses, improved with common space, modern kitchen and bathroom. We are looking for 4 volunteers: the volunteers will be in shared rooms, two persons from the same gender per room. We are growing, foraging, cooking and eating together healthy, plant based food with some eggs and diary products. Living in the mountain we mainly walk or horse-ride, when possible. At one hour of walk from our home is the train station with regular connection to Sofia (60km) and Svoge (15km.), or a bus.

🎒 Leisure activities

Our open and pragmatic methodology provides knowledge, skills and attitudes for: - Healthy and non-violent living; - Regenerative landscaping; - Planting endemic and useful plants: nutritional, medicinal, ecological; - Renovation and construction of houses, using wood, clay, stone, straw and other materials; - Maintenance of eco-farms: gardens, animals, buildings and machinery; - Receiving and training volunteers; - Exchange of production, physical and intellectual labor, with the local population; - Consulting and volunteering for other projects; - Non-dogmatic spirituality;

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: No previous experience needed. You need strong motivation and will to live the values and principles of the project, to practice it's lifestyle. To be open and implement the desired habits, regarding food, daily regime and program. To be ready to handle responsibilities. For this, you need to be listening, flexible, hardworking and willing to persevere. The specific knowledge, skills and attitudes transmitted, are demanding openness and respect toward our experience in the last 22 years.
Deadline:

ℹ️ Additional information

The project is implemented under the European Solidarity Corps Programme, financed by the European Commission.
The participating organisations have to be mindful of these needs as they are responsible for providing a respectful and trusting hosting environment. At the same time, the organisations participating in the initiative devote a great deal of time, energy and resources to set up a high-quality activity; they should therefore expect that European Solidarity Corps participants show a similar level of respect for the local communities and the people that are directly concerned by the activities (https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/mission_en).
What do we provide ?

Training before and after the project
Health insurance during your project
round-trip travel reimbursement
accommodation and food
pocket money
language course
Return Week-end
Youth Pass and SVI international Volunteer passport

Before applying for this volunteering project, you need to enroll yourself at European Solidarity Corps Platform (https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity_en) and specify your European Solidarity Corps Participant Number (PRN).
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label.
Contact the ESC coordinator at +32 2 888 67 13 to get more informations.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.

📅 Available sessions

BG54267

01/03/2027 → 01/07/2027

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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

2267 Zhelen, Bulgaria

Bulgaria

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Bulgaria Lev (BGN / лв)

Exchange rate

1 BGN = 0.515905 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Eastern European Summer Time

Local time: 22:12 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

Bulgarian English