📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Comunidad Agropecuaria Industrial A.C. was founded 20 years ago and has had various volunteers from all over the world. Kibbutz means community, in specific to live in a community where the people sow and harvest their own food. This community also owns a hostel for events and a social center in Amexhe, Guanajuato. In the community the environment is respected, they make their own compost and implemented green energy. Their mission is to be an auto-sustainable community with respect to the environment and to have a social impact. They pay attention to vulnerable social groups with few resources and aim to be very professional in the services of the hostel they have.
The community's objectives are:
To be 100% auto-sustainable.
To have their own brand of dairy products and to offer them to the community.
To contribute with the self-employment and education of the people in Amexhe.
💼 What the programme involves
The project Production of Diary includes the making of yoghurt and cheese. The activities include gathering the milk, filling containers with milk, measuring the temperature, placing in molds and unmolding, weighting, packing, labeling and refrigerating the products. Another task is teaching interested students how to produce cheese and yogurt themselves.
The daily timetable is: from 8.00 to 8.30 a.m. meditation, at 8.30 a.m. breakfast, work from
9.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. and from 3.00 p.m. to6.00 p.m., lunch during the break. Additionally, every Thursday at 7.00 p.m. there is a meeting of the community. The volunteers are going to have free time from Saturday at noon to Sunday
9.00 p.m.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The lodging is going to be in rooms with one or two beds and a private bathroom. The rooms are part of the project; therefore, no transportation from the accommodation to the project is needed.
From Monday to Saturday the breakfast and lunch is going to be cooked for everyone. The volunteers are going to cook themselves their diner and the meals on Sunday.
📍 About the location
Apaseo el Grande, Guanajuato is at about 4 hours by bus from Mexico City.
FREE TIME: Interesting places nearby to visit are Querétaro, Celaya, San Miguel de Allende, Pea de Bernal, Tequisquiapan and soccer.