📝 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 2023, from 31st March until 30st of November. Participants help on 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. Eco-BUILDING from wood and metal, renovation of mud houses 4. HANDICRAFTS designing and sewing clothes / upcycling old furniture. Volunteers will help with other tasks as well, according to their interest: 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. This means two of the volunteers share one. 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.
⚠️ 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: No application deadline
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.