Kuterevo Mountain Spirit: coexistence of people and wilderness

Activities and lifestyle are changing with the seasons. In spring and summer volunteers are mainly working outside, while from late autumn and winter there is time to do more indoor tasks. General tasks of the volunteers include:
• Introducing individual/short term volunteers into the work and communal life
• Welcoming and informing visitors about bears and wilderness
• Taking care of domestic animals
• Maintaining the facilities of the Volunteers’ Station and around the Bear Refuge
• Documenting the daily life around the Refuge
• Taking part in promotional events, festivities, presentations
• Taking part in meetings, planing, reporting, evaluating, preparing daily statics and keeping diary

In addition to the regular tasks, the volunteers can be more involved in specific activities, according to their preferences and skills, but also needs of the organization.
More information here: https://tinyurl.com/pk5vfpcbThe volunteers will learn about THE BEAR, its biology, ecology, protection and mythology. In addition, the project will improve their knowledge on nature, its cycles and biodiversity. As the organization is volunteer-based, young people will have the opportunity to experience living in an international COMMUNITY, learn from each other, share, raise their consciousness on sustainable lifestyle and learn about LIFE IN VILLAGE. The volunteers will get an opportunity to take part in training for camp coordination, as well as other training opportunities, related to nature conservation and Volunteering projects taking place in Kuterevo are unique. Living in a mountain village, with seasons, with other volunteers, with animals has its own specificities, challenges and beauties.

Volunteers should have a lot of good will for:
• Taking care of different animals
• Learning Croatian language
• Welcoming and informing visitors
• Welcoming and introducing new volunteers, guests and travelers
• Visiting and maintaining relations with friends of the organizations, in particular elders
• Living with others, living simply and learning
• Self-evaluation and reflection