EST Kiidi Farm VÕRU
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About the project
EST Kiidi Farm VÕRU
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The charm of Haanja Uplands in South Estonia lies in its lovely hilly landscape, winding roads and numerous lakes. Most of its ancient villages, peculiar dialect, handicrafts and customs have been preserved until today. The whole area, called Vorumaa, is an area of outstanding beauty. It is famous for its diverse and very well-preserved nature. Untouched forests with rich wildlife, deep valleys, hills, 170 small lakes with extremely clean water, strong river currents with sand caves in their steep banks - you can find everything there.
With the support of the state and local authorities the eco- and farm sustainable tourism has been developed in this area. Besides promoting the environmental tourism, this initiative supports rural development, which is a very important topic for Estonia. Association of Farm Tourism launched several projects and Kiidi Farm, where the camp takes place, is one of them.The Association of Farm Tourism has hosted over 20 camps with EstYES in the previous years. It is one of EstYES oldest local partners.
💼 What the programme involves
The voluntary work program is diverse. It includes cleaning hiking, cross-country skiing and snowboarding trails from brushwood, repainting the hiking route signs, making the firewood (cutting wood, piling the ricks), making the fold for the sheep (preparing the material and building the fold/fence), preparing material for rug weaving, cleaning sheep wool for crafts and possibly making woolen carpets. Most of the work will be outdoors. There can be also some light maintaining works indoors if weather is too rainy. The work will be usually around 4-6 hours a day, the rest of the time will be spend getting acquainted with the area, its natural and historical sites as well as with local people. Local people will join the camp for work and leisure.
Type of work and its schedule may change depending on weather conditions and actual needs of the hosting project.
A typical day looks like follows:
09.00 - breakfast
10.00 - work
13.00 - lunch
14.00 - work
16.00 – trips in the area, visits, meetings
19.00 - dinner
20.00 – sauna or evening trips in the area
🏠 Accommodation on site
In the farmhouse in 2-4-bedded rooms. Sleeping bag is NOT needed. WC, shower, hot water, sauna are available.
🍲 Food
Hosts will prepare meals themselves, but participants will be asked to help out in the kitchen.
📍 About the location
Kiidi Farm is situated 15 km south of Voru, capital of the County, which has a population of 17 000 people and lies about 250 km south-east of Tallinn, very close to the Latvian and Russian borders. The closest village to Kiidi Farm is Rouge (3km) with a population of less than 1000 people.
🎒 Leisure activities
In addition to manual work there will be many learning opportunities. In this camp you will have a chance to learn about Estonian traditions, culture and handicrafts. There will be a possibility of studying some local handicrafts techniques (wood, wool, batik) and try to make your own.
Among activities – planned and optional - there are:
• Meeting with Rõuge Youth Club
• Visiting Rõuge school
• Visiting Sänna cultural manor
• Visiting local community and town of Võru
• Visiting local sights (Suur Munamägi – highest point of the Baltics)
• Visiting most spectacular natural sites of the area
• Trip to Setomaa
• Learning local folk danses
• Lerning handicrafts
• Short trip to town Aluksne
You are welcomed to organize something to introduce your country or region - songs, food, dances or anything else you would like to show/ teach locals.
⚠️ Requirements
No special requirements, except motivation, openness and positive attitude.
🤝 Meeting point
The meeting point will be indicated in the info sheet.
ℹ️ Additional information
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📅 Available sessions
EST F1
01/01/2021 → 01/10/2021
EST F1
18/08/2019 → 27/08/2019
EST 2024
01/09/2024 at 00:00 → 09/09/2024 at 00:00
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
10–99 years old
Solidarity donation
280.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Rõuge, Võru County, Estonia
Estonia
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)
Timezone
Eastern European Standard Time
Local time: 21:28 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
🗣️ Languages spoken