ESC: VILLAGE & COMMUNITY - gardening* eco-crafts* animals* culture*

Code: 38197 Copied

Hungary European Voluntary Service Environment Social work Culture European Voluntary Service Environment +2 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

💼 What the programme involves

Are you interested in NATURAL LIFE IN A COMMUNITY? Would you like to learn about self-sufficiency and creative solutions? Come to a cosy Hungarian village and become one of our 4 long-term volunteers! Spend 8 months here in 2024, from 31st March until 30st of November. Participants help at several family-size ecological farms. They can choose to experience and learn about: 1. Natural GARDENING in the forest garden and food processing for the vegetarian kitchen. 2. Traditional ANIMAL KEEPING at a farm with goats (+ horses, cows, chicken) From pasturage to cheese. 3. Practising various CRAFTS especially building, wood works, sewing, weaving 4. Running the Kék Ház CULTURAL CENTER with organisation and maintenance. Volunteers will help with other tasks as well, according to their skills and interests: LEADING PROGRAMS for adults or children like sports, games, teaching languages; COMMUNICATION via our internet surfaces. More details, photos, films: https://falusifortelyok.hu/volunteering/

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers are hosted in a traditional clay house. It has a garden with huge walnut trees. There are 3 bedrooms. The house has a central common kitchen and a bathroom as well. Volunteers cook for themselves. We provide healthy, mostly locally produced ingredients. Once a month there is a cosy community gathering for reflection and fun. We provide a bicycle to get around in the village. Look at this 9-minute video from 2021 to get inspired! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrgQNMWkfGA

🎒 Leisure activities

Volunteers get introduced to activities of self-sufficiency with the technical details of given processes. They learn about ways of creating ecological habitats that serve as natural HOME for human beings, plants and animals. They acquire basic planning methods of permaculture. They can discover healthy, natural, sustainable lifestyles in a friendly community. They can learn how to produce food from outstanding experts of ecological gardening; discover a kind of animal keeping that respects animals; get insights to natural building technologies. They can discover their personalities, talents.

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: We expect our volunteers to be open-minded. Ready to share experiences in a small community. Come to us if you want to spend a few months in a quiet, peaceful, natural Hungarian village with 450 inhabitants. In the village there is an informal, organic network of ecologically oriented people, including a few people in their twenties - it is good if you are interested to get to know them! Be ready to help at partly self-sufficient, ecological, family-sized farms, and join their gatherings. You should communicate in English considerably well. One of our volunteers could be a person from Hungary.
Deadline: Application deadline: 19/01/2024

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

HU38197

31/03/2024 → 30/11/2024

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Deadline: 19/01/2024

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

Nagyszékely, Ady Endre u. 28, 7085 Hungary

Hungary

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Hungary Forint (HUF / Ft)

Exchange rate

1 HUF = 0.002768 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Central European Standard Time

Local time: 22:08 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Hungarian